Ignoring basic safety protocols to fight COVID-19, including wearing a mask and social distancing, could have fatal consequences as these two charts show.

Jeyaraj Vadiveloo · The Conversation 03 Jul 2020

Global Health

Museums preserve clues that can help scientists predict and analyze future pandemics

Museums preserve clues that allow scientists to predict, analyze, and prepare for future pandemics.

Richard Yanagihara, Joseph Cook, and Pamela Soltis · The Conversation 03 Jul 2020

COVID-19

COVID-19: Top science stories of the week

In this round-up: Beijing approves experimental vaccine for military use and why people who test negative for antibodies may still be immune to reinfection from COVID-19.

Alice Hazelton, Greta Keenan, and Sam Leakey 03 Jul 2020

Global Health

This new programme could hold the key to solving global health challenges

Some lower income countries are tackling health challenges in innovative, cost-effective ways - and their strategies are now being shared around the world.

Niranjan Bose 30 Jun 2020

Air Pollution

We know how to tackle it, but air pollution is still at deadly levels for much of the world's population

Lockdowns proved what can be achieved on clean air, but a new study reveals that a majority of the world's population still has pollution levels well above WHO guidelines.

Emma Charlton 30 Jun 2020

Global Health

Congo announces end of Ebola outbreak in east, second deadliest on record

Officials have publicly declared that the Ebola outbreak in the eastern DCR, the second worst on record, is officially over. The country is still tackling an epidemic in the west.

Stanis Bujakera · x 26 Jun 2020

Big Data

Better data means better outcomes for COVID's marginalized groups

Identifying the people who suffered the most because of the pandemic is the first step to making sure no one is overlooked in challenging times.

Phil Crehan 26 Jun 2020

COVID-19

Our healthcare system is failing people without COVID-19. It’s time to address the hidden third wave.

By prioritizing preventing COVID-19, we have unintentionally left behind people living with cancer, rare diseases and other acute and chronic conditions.

Lynsey Chediak and Gareth Baynam 26 Jun 2020

COVID-19

Why it's crucial we don't forget about flu in the COVID-19 pandemic

Savings lives from flu in the US would cost less than $4 billion, compared to the trillions already being spent battling COVID-19, according to research.

Knowledge @Wharton · Knowledge@Wharton 25 Jun 2020

COVID-19

Why this sea creature is still a key ingredient in testing vaccines

Horseshoe crab blood is instrumental in making sure injectable medicines are safe – and a synthetic alternative has just been rejected by an influential US standards group.

David Elliott 25 Jun 2020

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Here’s what the first coronavirus “swab robot” can teach us about fast innovation

Researchers in Denmark have developed a robot that can help with mass testing for coronavirus. Here's what they learned about innovating under pressure.

Jane Thoning Callesen 24 Jun 2020

Emerging Technologies

17 ways technology could change the world by 2025

We asked our 2020 intake of Technology Pioneers for their views on how technology will change the world in the next five years. Here are their predictions.

Saemoon Yoon 23 Jun 2020