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Many of the events in the Winter Olympics involve some sort of sliding or slipping on ice—in a skillful, controlled way. Those moves often seem effortless, but the physics behind what makes them possible is messy. For centuries, scientists have been trying to figure out why ice i ...  Show more

In this episode of Science Quickly, multimedia journalist Meghan McDonough explores how emerging artificial-intelligence‑powered “smart home” tools are helping people with Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions that cause dementia stay safer at home while easing the load on car ...  Show more

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, we’ve heard a lot of talk about coronavirus tests. But how do tests for such a new virus work and what do the results really tell you? If your test comes back negative, what do you do? And what kinds of tests will help us in the futu ...  Show more

Is it COVID-19, the flu, or something else? In this episode, Dr. Sean-Xavier Neath joins us to discuss the evolution of diagnostic testing for respiratory infections in the ED, through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. This episode is supported by BioMerieux. 

Depuis l'apparition, en novembre 2021, du nouveau variant Omicron, beaucoup plus contagieux, le nombre de contaminations au Covid-19 explose. Face à cette flambée de l'épidémie, on peut s'interroger sur l'efficacité de certains tests, et notamment des autotests, pour repérer c ...

Daniel Griffin discusses a front-line health care worker survey, pre-exposure seropositivity and subsequent infection in healthy young adults, fitted filtration efficiency of double masking, BinaxNow rapid in-home antigen test, postvaccination infections in a nursing facility, ...