Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 improves mental health

People who received the COVID-19 vaccine experienced less depression and anxiety compared to unvaccinated individuals

Danielle Llaneza, Hunter College

November 8, 2021

How COVID-19's Delta variant upended the world's fall plans

Sara May Bergstresser , Columbia University

3 peer comments

August 26, 2021

T cells activated by mRNA vaccines are effective against Alpha, Beta, and Gamma COVID-19 variants

Josseline Ramos-Figueroa, University of Saskatchewan

August 21, 2021

New study finds people with COVID-19 have antibodies that target their own immune systems

Iflah Shahid, University of Waterloo

June 20, 2021

We must reckon with our ableism if we want healthcare to work for people

6 peer comments

June 10, 2021

The lab-leak hypothesis for COVID-19 is becoming a conspiracy theory

Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

5 peer comments

May 26, 2021

How COVID-19 has worsened the lives of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients

Burcin Ikiz, Neuroscience

May 11, 2021

An anonymous COVID-19 contact tracing app that warns you when your friends are sick

Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

May 8, 2021

Why does COVID-19 often cause brain fog?

Elizabeth Burnette, University of California, Los Angeles

April 24, 2021

Can monitoring indoor carbon dioxide levels predict how COVID-safe a room is?

The gas can be a proxy for stagnant air — but the answer is complicated

Krystal Vasquez, California Institute of Technology

April 20, 2021

Demystifying the effects of COVID-19 variants on vaccines

Sara May Bergstresser , Columbia University

April 19, 2021

When can kids get the COVID-19 vaccine? A pediatrician answers parent questions

James B. Wood, Indiana University School of Medicine

April 6, 2021

Over-the-counter COVID tests are coming sooner rather than later

Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News

April 2, 2021

Immunocompromised people must be a priority in the COVID-19 vaccination effort

Francesco Zangari, University of Toronto

1 peer comment

March 7, 2021

Kids can tell if you're smiling under your mask

Jayati Sharma, Johns Hopkins University

March 6, 2021

Researchers develop a new tool to quantify self-care during COVID-19

Emma Okumura, McGill University

February 26, 2021

Storytelling is the antidote to Americans' mistrust of science

Jamie L Peeler, Pennsylvania State University

4 peer comments

February 25, 2021

Community health workers, often overlooked, bring trust to the pandemic fight

Michele Cohen Marill, Kaiser Health News

February 16, 2021

Women scientists are bearing the brunt of COVID-19's impacts

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2021 marks countless setbacks for the science world

Kristen Vogt Veggeberg, University of Illinois at Chicago

February 11, 2021

A protein variant inherited from Neanderthals protects people from severe COVID-19

Anna Wernick, University College London

January 27, 2021

The Moderna mRNA vaccine works against newly emerged COVID-19 mutants

Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

January 25, 2021

COVID-19 is setting back the lives and careers of young scientists

Francesco Zangari, University of Toronto

5 peer comments

January 3, 2021

How good are the COVID-19 vaccines?

Sara May Bergstresser , Columbia University

December 29, 2020

How the COVID-19 vaccine is distributed determines how the pandemic will end

Sara May Bergstresser , Columbia University

December 22, 2020

Empathy is key to overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

Shelby Bradford, West Virginia University

December 21, 2020

How is the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine delivered to cells?

Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

December 19, 2020

Why do the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines need to be kept so cold?

Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

December 19, 2020

It's time to track city sewage for emerging diseases, not just COVID-19

The current pandemic accelerated the wastewater epidemiology techniques, but researchers hope to continue the practice to prevent the next one

Lauren Sara McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

1 peer comment

December 10, 2020

How should a COVID-19 vaccine be distributed?

Jill Neimark, Science Journalism

November 22, 2020

How does Pfizer’s "90% effective" COVID-19 vaccine work?

Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

November 9, 2020

What counts as 15 minutes of close contact?

Ryan Malosh, University of Michigan

November 4, 2020

New case study shows that COVID-19-positive people don't transfer the virus through donated eggs

Victoria Farrar, University of California, Davis

November 1, 2020

Viruses can 'spill back' into wildlife populations, increasing the risk of disease in humans

Alejandro Rossi, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

October 26, 2020

Brain banks are key to understanding COVID's mysterious symptoms, but only if people are willing to donate

Kathryn Vaillancourt, McGill University

3 peer comments

October 20, 2020

Testing for lesser known antibodies produces a better COVID-19 test

Kialani Mackey, Occidental College

October 20, 2020

A virus-like COVID-19 vaccine is being grown in tobacco plants

Hayley McKay , University of Toronto

October 13, 2020

What will dexamethasone do to President Trump?

The cognitive and immunological effects of steroids face a test at a critical point in Trump's illness

Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

October 10, 2020

No, you cannot pierce your brain with a COVID-19 swab test

Carl Philpott, University of East Anglia

October 5, 2020

What is the COVID-19 polyclonal antibody treatment that President Trump took?

Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

October 2, 2020

The immune systems of males and females respond to COVID-19 differently

Shelby Bradford, West Virginia University

September 30, 2020

Can fitness bands predict COVID-19 infection before you show symptoms? Probably not

Matthew Bomkamp, University of Florida

2 peer comments

September 22, 2020

Researchers investigate which terrestrial and marine mammals might be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2

Josseline Ramos-Figueroa, University of Saskatchewan

September 14, 2020

About 15% of maternity healthcare workers have COVID-19 antibodies, despite never being diagnosed with the disease

Deanna MacNeil, Cell Biology

September 9, 2020

Don't bank on herd immunity to save us from COVID-19

Sara May Bergstresser , Columbia University

August 28, 2020

Is artificial intelligence worsening COVID-19's toll on Black Americans?

August 13, 2020

T cells could be the key in developing an effective COVID-19 vaccine

Our bodies have two main types of T cells. Together they can help us fend off this virus

Paige E Pistono, UC Berkeley

June 13, 2020

An extra 1 part per billion of pollution comes with an 8 percent increase in COVID-19 mortality

Kathryn Atherton, Boston University

May 14, 2020

Regular soap and water is enough to fend off coronavirus. Don't use antibacterials

Ashley Marranzino, University of Rhode Island

April 23, 2020

Immune cells like to double up for stronger infection fighting power

Sruthi Sanjeev Balakrishnan, National Centre for Biological Sciences

November 20, 2019