Large-scale containment measures that reduce the spread of COVID-19 have proven to have too large an impact on both the economy and our mental health to be sustainable in the long term. Here, the authors show that travel reductions between geographical regions and timely local control measures can reduce the region-to-region reproduction number below one, thus eliminating the epidemic and…
When watching a movie of a physical process, one can conjecture whether it is running forward or backward in time by examining key physical parameters…
While public space is traditionally shared by pedestrian and cars, the distancing measures imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic have underlined the need for wider pedestrian…
Network approaches are key to understand epidemic spreading, inherently driven by human mobility patterns and constrained by transport systems. In this work, the authors develop…
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A longitudinal analysis of humoral immune responses in patients with COVID-19 with varying disease severities reveals that mortality does not correlate with antiviral antibody levels…
What leads people to reject public health advice like mask wearing and social distancing? Using surveys of over 27,000 Canadians and a blend of cross-sectional,…
Postbiotics are emerging substances prepared from inactivated microorganisms, in contrast to probiotics, which must be administered alive. This Consensus Statement outlines a definition for the…
The responses of terrestrial ecosystems to changes in precipitation patterns are highly context-dependent. Here the authors perform a quantitative synthesis of field rainfall manipulation experiments,…
Using publicly-available average monthly groundwater level data in 478 sub-basins and 30 basins in Iran, we quantify country-wide groundwater depletion in Iran. Natural and anthropogenic…
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