When a community reopens its schools and COVID-19 rates increase, other factors – not the reopening of schools – may still be to blame, new research finds.
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From step counters and active video games to apps for exercisers and tech-enabled gear, there are a lot of ways to combine your workouts with your digital life.
Black people are skeptical about the new vaccines for many reasons. If public health leaders told the full story, maybe there'd be a higher chance that Black people would want to take the vaccine.
A serious allergic reaction was reported in a health care worker in Alaska after she received the COVID-19 vaccine. Does this mean that people with allergies need to be concerned? An expert answers.
Understanding a family member's diagnosis can help teens feel less stressed, afraid and alone.
Animals that regularly dine on toxic food may hold clues for designing new drugs to treat persistent pain in humans.
Most methods of determining whether electoral maps are fair require a lot of math and some tough computation. But there is an easier way.
Archaeologists used to dig primarily at sites that were easy to find thanks to obvious visual clues. But technology – and listening to local people – plays a much bigger role now.
A pharmaceutical supply chain expert explains the challenges of distributing the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna that need to be kept at very low temperatures.
Small, practical messaging campaigns on pesticide toxicity can lead farmers to choose safer, less-toxic pesticides.
Over the approaching holidays, people around the world will want to travel to see friends and family. Getting tested for the coronavirus can make this safer, but testing alone is not a perfect answer.
Almost 10% of physicians in the US are doctors of osteopathic medicine, and that proportion is rising. Their medical knowledge matches that of other doctors; the difference is the philosophy behind it.
A COVID-19 vaccine isn't the only tool for fighting this pandemic. An immunologist argues that safe pneumonia vaccines would reduce the severity of COVID-19, save lives and prevent the worst cases.
A survey of over a thousand scientists reveals that their goal when communicating about their work is to help the rest of us make evidence-based decisions that draw on scientific findings.
It's easy to edit video of public figures to make them appear asleep, confused, drunk or cognitively impaired when they are not. The technique is being used to undermine Joe Biden's campaign.
The Sept. 11 bombings killed almost 3,000 Americans. But if you exclude that unique event for the last two decades of terrorist activity, a different picture of US vulnerability appears.
Just as humans can suffer from an imbalance of microbes in their gut, plants can suffer a similar syndrome in their leaves. This finding opens up new possibilities for improving food security.
Africa is far from having an ageing farming population. What is missing is a critical mass of skilled, young farmers with access to finance who could drive productivity in farming.
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Kinesiology, Michigan State University
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Associate Dean for Public Health Integration, Michigan State University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
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PhD Student, Michigan State University
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Director of Doctoral Program and Associate Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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Professor of Economics, Michigan State University
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Professor of Kinesiology, Michigan State University
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Professor of Education Policy and Economics, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Education, Michigan State University
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PhD Candidate in Integrative Biology, Michigan State University
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Charles Stewart Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University
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Professor of Economics and Education Policy, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University
