6. Understanding unconscious racial bias — two important and interesting studies led by Jennifer Eberhardt and a feature from Science introducing her work.

3. A study on effects of mindfulness on attention switching and a comment on the importance of international cooperation for food chains during the pandemic and beyond — two open access texts I am excited to recommend…

7. Third-hand tobacco smoke and effects of travel restrictions on coronavirus spread.

While both studies I am about to recommend today are very recent — published less than 2 months ago — in case of an ongoing pandemic time flies differently. With the current spread of…

13. Seasonality of SARS-CoV-2 and using aircraft data to estimate economic situation.

There has been a lot of talk about COVID-19 pandemic easing in the summer in the hopes that it will show seasonality like other human coronaviruses. Recent study from Science indicates…

11. Computation begins, computation pushed to its limits and quantum computation.

Computation. A word so important in today’s world it is hard to imagine any part of life happening entirely without it in some shape or form. Though there are many definitions, it could be…

8. Quantum advantage defined, almost-achieved and taken another shot at.

Today I am exited to recommend three papers in quantum computing, the field fuelling my own research flame. While two of them are not peer-reviewed, they could not really have been — the first is a…

10. Effectiveness of contact-tracing in fighting disease spread — insightful modelling and analysis of hard facts from Taiwan.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, there were many opinions about how countries should counteract the outbreaks…

4. Research on an ongoing drought in north-western United States, a study of antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 and a saddening news report on NIH cutting a grant for research helping understand how coronaviruses jump…

9. Not only respiratory entry for SARS-CoV-2, global insect decline and tools to improve our mental wellbeing.

I do not intend to spread fear through sharing research about the novel virus causing COVID-19. In fact, I do not want anybody to be afraid by…