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 ...

We test for and measure the effects of cable news in the US on regional differences in compliance with recommendations by health experts to practice social distancing during the early stages of 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 ...

Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and still to this day, there has been a lot of complaining about mask wearing. However, you haven’t heard many frustrations about social distancing.

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 ...

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 – ...