Sweden will have its highest death toll in 150 years in the first half of 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the country’s official Bureau of Statistics. The Scandinavian nation, which refused to implement a COVID-19 lockdown, reported 51,405 deaths between January and June – the highest number of …
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For the past A few years, until the pandemic hit, Bill Ristenpart, a chemical engineer at UC Davis (and coffee-geek at the next level) had brought a team of researchers and boxes of expensive instruments across the country to New York City each summer and into the lab of Nicole …
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The benefits of wearing face masks to support the spread of COVID-19 are now well understood, but scientists are still looking for better materials to use – and a ‘filter paper’ made of titanium oxide nanowires shows much promise. The new material is so good at capturing pathogens, and destroying …
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Winter stop had arrived in Stockholm at the end of February, and Soo Aleman was watching as her fellow Swedes left the capital for ski holidays in Europe. Aleman’s colleagues at Karolinska University Hospital, where she works as a researcher and doctor, came back relaxed and strengthened, with stories to …
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