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More than 1 in 5 Americans are taking care of their elderly, ill and disabled relatives and friends

  • Written by Erin E. Kent, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Caring for loved ones is harder during the coronavirus pandemic.Maskot/Getty Images

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I’m studying how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing caregiving.

Immunocompromised people, seniors with dementia and anyone with a chronic disease...

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Who's in charge of lifting lockdowns?

  • Written by David Swindell, Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Arizona State University
When is the right time to wave the green flag?Yellow Dog Productions/Getty Images

In a nation with more than 90,000 governments, responses to the coronavirus pandemic have highlighted the challenges posed by the United States’ system of federalism, where significant power rests with states and local governments. Wisconsin’s Supreme...

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Megacity slums are incubators of disease – but coronavirus response isn't helping the billion people who live in them

  • Written by Robert Muggah, Lecturer, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
A market area in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, crowded with people despite the coronavirus pandemic, May 12, 2020. hmed Salahuddin/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading into the megacities of developing countries. Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and...

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Prehistoric human footprints reveal a rare snapshot of ancient human group behavior

  • Written by William E.H. Harcourt-Smith, Research Associate, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, and Associate Professor in Anthropology, Lehman College, CUNY
Footprints, preserved in solidified ash, hint at human behavior from as long as 19,000 years ago.Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce, CC BY-ND

When it comes to reconstructing how ancient creatures lived, palaeontologistslike us are as much detectives as we are scientists.

We’re used to partial evidence, dead ends and red herrings. It’s especially...

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Social distancing is no reason to stop service learning – just do it online

  • Written by Marianne E. Krasny, Professor of Environmental Education and Civic Ecology, Cornell University
College students don't have to appear in person to do good.Tom Werner/Getty Images

At Troy University in Alabama, students went online to help a county with a high infant mortality rate in the state of Georgia to analyze health disparities and develop solutions.

At Cornell University, where I teach, law students are providing legal services online...

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Everyday ethics: Stripping puts me in close contact with others – should I go back to work?

  • Written by Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
Tipping from a social distance at The Lucky Devil strip club in Portland, Oregon. Steve Dykes/Getty Images

A lot of people are facing ethical decisions about their daily life as a result of the coronavirus. Ethicist Lee McIntyre has stepped in to help provide advice over the moral dilemmas we face. If you have a question you’d like a...

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Delaying primaries helps protect incumbents as well as voters

  • Written by Robert Boatright, Professor of Political Science, Clark University
An Ohio election official on the night of the primary vote rescheduled from March 17 to April 28.AP/Gene J. Puskar

Nineteen states, including Wyoming, Hawaii and Maryland, have postponed or canceled their primary elections. To many Americans, the idea that states might cancel or postpone their primaries as a response to the COVID-19 epidemic may...

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We designed an experimental AI tool to predict which COVID-19 patients are going to get the sickest

  • Written by Anasse Bari, Clinical Assistant Professor of Computer Science, New York University
AI can help doctors tackle new problems. Paulus Rusyanto / EyeEm via Getty Images

COVID-19 doesn’t create cookie cutter infections. Some people have extremely mild cases while others find themselves fighting for their lives.

Clinicians are working with limited resources against a disease that is very hard to predict. Knowing which patients...

Read more: We designed an experimental AI tool to predict which COVID-19 patients are going to get the sickest

A new type of chemical bond: The charge-shift bond

  • Written by John Morrison Galbraith, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Marist College
A universe of chemical equations.Nikolayenko Yekaterina/Shutterstock.com

The Abstract features interesting research and the people behind it.

John Morrison Galbraith is an associate professor of chemistry at Marist College who studies chemical bonding, which is the process that holds atoms together to make molecules.

What have you discovered?

Did you...

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