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How at risk are you of getting a virus on an airplane?
Fair or not, airplanes have a reputation for germs. However, there are ways to minimize the…
School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students
Students struggling to get online in a rural South Carolina county received a boost last week…
Ecosystem services are not constrained by borders
What do chocolate, migratory birds, flood control and pandas have in common? Many countries benefit from…
The desire for information: Blissful ignorance or painful truth?
We live in a time of unprecedented access to information. And in this era of sheltering-in-place…
Hidden messages in protein blueprints
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Heidelberg Institute of Stem Cell Technology…
Heart attack on a chip: Scientists model conditions of ischemia on a microfluidic device
Researchers led by biomedical engineers at Tufts University invented a microfluidic chip containing cardiac cells that…
Unique structural fluctuations at ice surface promote autoionization of water molecules
Water ice is one of the most abundant solid substances in nature and hydrated protons on…
How social media makes it difficult to identify real news
There’s a price to pay when you get your news and political information from the same…
Using chemical boundary engineering to create steel that is strong and flexible without high carbon content
A team of researchers from China, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands has found a way to…