On this week鈥檚 鈥淐OVID-19 and More: Conversations with the 黑料不打烊 Office for Science and Society鈥�, Joe Schwarcz Jonathan Jarry, Emily Shore, and guest Dr. Debbie Schwarcz Gonshor discuss the latest...
Technology is imperfect. Anyone who鈥檚 ever used a computer knows this. You search for a file that you know to be on your hard drive and somehow the search function just cannot find it. If computers...
The ability to accurately pinpoint areas where new cases of COVID-19 are rising would help to better allocate resources and enact better local policy....
What does an antivaxxer and a far-right activist have in common? If the thought of someone who opposes vaccines brings to mind tie-dye shirts and tree hugging, your answer may be 鈥渘othing.鈥� But...
Today it is COVID-19 that is sowing panic around the world but in 19th聽century England the fear was of cholera, a dreadful disease. It causes diarrhea so severe that a victim can lose as much as...
Here鈥檚 a counterintuitive fact: an antiviral drug does not kill a virus. The real virus killers are the virucides, like alcohol and bleach, that tear the virus apart. It鈥檚 all in the name, with 鈥�...
Infectious diseases have a long history. The first epidemics were probably caused by the variola virus that causes smallpox. The disease commonly spreads through skin-to-skin contact or contact...
This week's "COVID and More: Conversations with the 黑料不打烊 OSS" took a deep dive into face masks, Kawasaki Disease, buying food (and coffee, Emily Shore misses hers), different strains of the virus...
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