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San Francisco May 1, 2020 – In an important victory for thousands of public interest groups around the world, a proposal to sell the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital and convert it to a for-profit entity was rejected late yesterday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The […]

April 30, 2020 -As people worldwide remain in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they are being encouraged to invite some of the world’s top musicians into their homes this Thursday, International Jazz Day. The artists were originally set to perform in Cape Town, South Africa, but have united for an online concert that will be streamed live […]

Take steps to protect yourself while shopping. Dmitry Kalinovsky/ Shutterstock Lena Ciric, UCL April 30, 2020 – For many of us, grocery shopping is when we will come into contact with the highest number of people during the pandemic. The more people we encounter, the higher the risk of virus transmission. So, how do we […]

London, UK, April 28, 2020 –  As millions of people around the world are spending more time indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic, C40 Cities today published a guide for citizens, building managers and city leaders to reduce and manage exposure to indoor air pollution. Emerging evidence indicates that people with poor lung health may be […]

New York, NY, April 17, 2020 – Penguin Young Readers, Random House Children’s Books, and PBS KIDS today announced a special collaboration with former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, in support of the recently announced “Read Together, Be Together” Penguin Random House literacy initiative and PBS KIDS’ “Read-Along” effort on Facebook and […]

April 15, 2020 – Children have an insatiable appetite to understand why things are the way they are, leading to their apt description as “little scientists”. While researchers have been aware of children’s interest in causal information, they didn’t know whether it influenced children’s preferences during real-world activities, such as reading. A new study in Frontiers […]

NEW YORK, NY April 14, 2020 – Today, Planned Parenthood announced a national expansion of telehealth services to provide health care by phone or video to patients in all 50 states by the end of April. Planned Parenthood knows that even during a pandemic, sexual and reproductive health services can’t wait — they are time-sensitive and […]

April 13, 2020 – A nationwide chorus is urging the wearing of homemade facemasks in public to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus. One voice is that of is physicist Walt de Heer who here explains some of the logic behind wearing the protective covering, starting with old-fashioned wisdom. “Your mother told you to […]

April 7, 2020 – While Joseph Maldonado-Passage (“Joe Exotic”), Kevin “Doc” Antle and others featured in the Netflix series “Tiger King” are now household names, the Humane Society of the United States has been working for years to stop the horrific treatment of animals at these—and many other similarly cruel—operations. In 2011, an HSUS investigator worked […]

Washington, DC April 3, 2020 – An analysis by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has found that the majority of states have gotten off to a slow start reporting animal cruelty incidents to the FBI’s national crime database. In 2015, in recognition of the importance of animal cruelty crimes and their effect not only on […]

April 2, 2020 – With hundreds of millions of people required to stay indoors during the coronavirus pandemic, the media is reporting an alarming increase in domestic violence incidents the world over. This includes the United States where calls to help lines have jumped dramatically. It is a problem we are tracking, out of concern for both […]

March 28, 2020 – Chloroquine phosphate, when used without a prescription and supervision of a healthcare provider, can cause serious health consequences, including death. Clinicians and public health officials should discourage the public from misusing non-pharmaceutical chloroquine phosphate (a chemical used in home aquariums). Clinicians should advise patients and the public that chloroquine, and the […]

Seniors may need help shopping, picking up prescriptions, and connecting with others. Getty Images / NurPhoto Basia Belza, University of Washington; Anita Souza, University of Washington, and Tatiana Sadak, University of Washington March 25, 2020 – Older adults always need social connection, but they need it now more than ever. The novel coronavirus brings with […]

March 23, 2020 – To stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the governing bodies of cities and states across the country are ordering people to stay home. But studies have shown that the loneliness and depression that may result from social isolation impacts not only mental health, but physical health as well. Jena Lee, MD, a […]

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2020 — Constantly being told to wash your hands? Us, too. So we’re diving into the chemistry behind why soap is so effective against viruses like the coronavirus that causes COVID-19: Reactions is a video series produced by the American Chemical Society and PBS Digital Studios. Subscribe to Reactions at http://bit.ly/ACSReactions and […]

March 18, 2020 – Plain old soap and water absolutely annihilate coronavirus. Read more about the coronavirus pandemic at http://vox.com/coronavirus You’ve been told a thousand times: wash your hands to stop the spread of COVID-19. But why does this work so well? It has to do with the way the soap molecules are able to […]

March 17, 2020 – Multiple states and countries are instituting shutdowns, curfews, and encouraging social distancing to help minimize the spread of COVID-19 among people. Nonetheless, food and water are needed to survive. Professor Diane Rigassio Radler, director for the Institute for Nutrition Interventions at the Rutgers School of Health Professions, discusses how people can maintain […]

March 13, 2020 – As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, people are focused on stopping the spread of germs through largescale quarantines and everyday best practices such as hand washing. But limiting the spread of infectious diseases might also require a rethinking of the tech we use — and touch — […]