The Conversation
- Is COVID-19 here to stay? A team of biologists explains what it means for a virus to become endemicThe contagious nature of SARS-CoV-2 and our highly interconnected society constitute a perfect storm that will likely contribute to sustained virus spread, researchers find
- New data suggests that lots of time on screens may even improve peer relationships. But the study comes with caveats.
- ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ research finds that carrying a pregnancy to term is riskier than having an abortion, especially for non-Hispanic Black women.
- Religious calendars and festivals can force people to encounter certain ideas in the year.
- As soaring heat exposes artifacts that provide insights into ancient climate resilience and other important scientific data, the ice loss itself is reducing humanity’s resilience for the years ahead.
- As statistics continues to play an ever more important role in society, equal access to data resources in developing countries is becoming more essential.
- With this combination of extreme drought, heat and dry vegetation, all it takes is a spark to ignite a wildfire.
- ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ research suggests how Maasai in Tanzania use their phones shows us how technology, error and openess can bring diverse people together.
- Record-breaking fires over the past decade suggest the western U.S. has entered a new era of megafires.Fire itself is not the problem – it has been characteristic of the North American West for millennia. The problem is when fires, fueled by dry and
- Climate change and other environmental stresses have increasingly become drivers of displacement,Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise force them to leave their countries, people