Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, have found a surprisingly simple way of understanding social-distancing behavior during an epidemic. Tokyo, Japan – ...

Honeybees increase social distancing when their hive is under threat from a parasite, finds a new study led by an international team involving researchers at UCL and the University of Sassari, Italy.

A Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this year suggested that adverse mental health conditions have skyrocketed during the ...

In a recent study published on the medRxiv* server, researchers from Austria have utilized a mathematical model-based analysis to understand whether the implementation of social contact reduction had ...

After two long, difficult years of the pandemic, life has started to return to normal – or at least something resembling normal – for many people. This article is part of Quarter Life, a series about ...

Studying epidemics can help us plan for the future and identify better ways of dealing with them. Now, in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a ...