It’s the second Christmas since COVID-19 pandemic erupted, swallowing the world in…
SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19 disease, the main villain of the pandemic that took lives of millions around…
I have written previously about research showing that face masks do appear to work to prevent viruses from entering our bodies (see #5) and that they may be the most efficient…
It is perhaps expected that low socioeconomic status can lead to poor mental health. When one has to worry not only about their goals…
Health mindsets used to be a rather obscure topic for me, borderline hard to comprehend. What do I think of when you ask…
Systemic racism — a set of policies, deeply ingrained in and defining how the system works, that deepen racial inequity. People suffer effects of such systems every day, around the globe, and…
As SARS-CoV-2 wreaks havoc around the world, killing millions and destroying lives of many more, scientific research takes its own hit as well…
I think it’s fair to say we are all looking forward to getting a COVID vaccine, if we are lucky to discover one. I know there are some people who don’t…
Antibiotics. If you live in a country with average income of $8 per day or more (what many would refer to as a “developed” country)…
Nuclear conflict sounds like an apocalyptic scenario for most of us. A vision of explosion mushrooms visible above any habitat is just terrifying, even without understanding the…
Many of us know that animals other than humans exhibit a vast variety of behaviors we have considered “human” for centuries. Some maths? Some primates got it. Some…
Research papers, scientific articles, journal publications — all these terms carry somehow dry feeling of pure facts and lack of emotion. After all, science is supposed to provide what is and not what…
#BlackLivesMatter
Racism and subconscious racial bias have many faces, and are often underestimated by people who are not directly affected by them. For example, I often hear voices…
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…
Climate change — we usually use this phrase to refer to rising average global temperature and all of the devastating effects of it. And while we see many of the results of the warming globe already…
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…
Since the beginning of the pandemic, there were many opinions about how countries should counteract the outbreaks…
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…
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…
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…
Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks — medium-easy read. Peer-reviewed study in…
