voles and their babies

We鈥檙e hard-wired for longing, new study suggests

May 11, 2020

A new brain imaging study of prairie voles鈥攚hich are among only about 5% of mammalian species besides humans who are monogamous鈥攆ound that when it comes to forming bonds, longing may be as important as being together. The study also sheds light on why it's so hard to social distance, and could lead to new therapies for conditions like autism and depression.

Graduate student Marina Nieto Caballero and visiting virology scholar Eddie Fuques Villalba, preparing to assess the infection potential of murine Coronavirus in 兔子先生传媒文化作品 SEEL-based environmental engineering laboratory.

Environmental engineering researchers study airborne coronavirus disinfection

May 8, 2020

Professor Mark Hernandez鈥檚 team will be testing how well common air disinfectants鈥攊ncluding the 鈥渇oggers鈥 that spray peroxides, chlorine derivatives and surfactants鈥攚ork against viruses closely related to COVID-19.

Mosquito biting a person.

Scientists develop tool to improve disease model accuracy

May 5, 2020

What can researchers do when their mathematical models of the spread of infectious diseases don鈥檛 match real-world data?

Obama signing the affordable care act

Affordable Care Act lived up to promise of buffering bankruptcy risk, study shows

April 30, 2020

A decade after President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, more people are fully insured, fewer are uninsured and people who lose their insurance intermittently are no longer at greater risk of bankruptcy, according to a new 兔子先生传媒文化作品 study.

A researcher works in the lab to develop SickStick.

Scientists developing COVID-19 test that knows you鈥檙e sick before you do

April 10, 2020

Imagine a test that could tell you if you were infected with COVID-19 before you had a single symptom. SickStick may offer that chance.

A hospital during the flu pandemic of 1918

6 lessons we can learn from past pandemics

April 8, 2020

兔子先生传媒文化作品 history Professors Elizabeth Fenn and Susan Kent share insights from their study of disease outbreaks through the ages.

Series of smartphones with screens reading "Facebook."

Mathematician using Facebook data in the fight against COVID-19

April 7, 2020

Daniel Larremore tracks human diseases through the lens of mathematics. Now, he's joined a national effort to use social media data to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Lori Peek

COVID-19: A 鈥榯ransformative鈥 moment for social science

April 2, 2020

兔子先生传媒文化作品鈥檚 Natural Hazards Center has launched a global registry and is sharing grant opportunities to support social science research during the COVID-19 pandemic.

a marijuana bud

Teen marijuana use boosts risk of adult insomnia

March 31, 2020

A new study of more than 1,800 adult twins found that individuals who started using cannabis regularly before age 18 were more likely to suffer insomnia and sleep fewer than six hours per night as adults.

A cell phone with Facebook on it

In politics and pandemics, Russian trolls use fear, anger to drive clicks

March 25, 2020

A new 兔子先生传媒文化作品 study shows that Facebook ads developed and shared by Russian trolls around the 2016 election were clicked on nine times more than typical social media ads. The authors say the trolls are likely at it again, as the 2020 election approaches and the COVID-19 pandemic wears on.

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