Improving prevention of and responses to flu outbreaks
New research suggests ways to reduce the likelihood that individuals and groups will become infected with influenza.
3 Questions: Lydia Bourouiba on Ebola virus transmission
Research on disease transmission through aerosol droplets raises questions about Ebola’s spread.
A new way to diagnose malaria
Using magnetic fields, technique can detect parasite’s waste products in infected blood cells.
3 Questions: Seth Mnookin on research to encourage vaccination
MIT professor co-authors AAAS report calling for dedicated research on vaccination decisions.
3 Questions: Michael Greenstone on the experimental method in environmental economics
MIT economist makes the case for new quasi-experiments as a way of studying environmental issues.
In the cloud: How coughs and sneezes float farther than you think
Novel study uncovers the way coughs and sneezes stay airborne for long distances.