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The Games go on, but without fans. Will athletes' performance suffer?

Jul 23, 2021

But how will it affect the more than 11,000 athletes expected to compete in these Games, which were already delayed for a year by the coronavirus pandemic. His past work...

Study explores COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and ways to reduce it

Jul 22, 2021

A new study co-authored by a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School identified behavioral patterns associated with reluctance among some adults for receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. The study,...

Study finds physicians are widely effective messengers of Covid-19 information

Jul 22, 2021

The evaluation tested the effectiveness of three video messages about Covid-19, recorded by physicians of different ages, genders, and races. Study participants were randomly selected to view videos featuring the...

This is how we can live on the moon

Jul 22, 2021

In the years following Apollo 11, NASA conducted several moon landings, and a total of 12 people went on to walk on the Moon. However, the mission did not go...

Llama ‘nanobodies’ could hold key to preventing deadly post-transplant infection

Jul 22, 2021

Around four out of five people in the UK are thought to be infected with HCMV, and in developing countries this can be as high as 95%. However, for people...

Difficulty hearing speech could be a risk factor for dementia

Jul 22, 2021

Hearing impairment affects around 1.5 billion individuals worldwide (World Health Organization), and there is growing evidence that this could increase the risk of dementia. A major component of hearing impairment...

Jeff Bezos Knows Who Paid for Him to Go to Space

Jul 22, 2021

Before today, Bezos’s private space company, Blue Origin, had not flown its rocket with any people on board. Future Blue Origin customers need only show up a few days before...

MIT.nano receives American Institute of Architects’s Top Ten Award for sustainable design

Jul 22, 2021

MIT.nano, MIT’s open-access facility for nanoscale science and engineering, has been awarded the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2021 Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Award for excellence in...

Measuring creativity, one word at a time

Jul 21, 2021

Overall, semantic distance correlated at least as strongly with established creativity measures as those measures did with each other. Many traditional creativity measures require time-intensive and subjective scoring procedures, which...

How the pandemic shaped the sex lives of Canadians

Jul 21, 2021

Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)How the pandemic shaped the sex lives of Canadians Science, Health & TechnologyAt the start of the pandemic, there were...