Scientists invent device which detects COVID by exhalation
HEALTHMONITOR, a compact device that diagnoses the presence of coronavirus in humans through exhalation, has been developed by a group of scientists.
The COVID-19 pandemic: Can science counter fake news?
Science diplomacy should be a strategy that scientists, governments and communities use to build trust and prepare future crisis.
The 17th Baltic Conference on Intellectual Co-Operation: Mathematics For Society
A conference to highlight maths contributions to the fight against COVID-19
Africa has highest COVID-19 death rate of critically ill
A survey of 10 African countries found that a lack of intensive care beds and medical resources led to worse outcomes associated with COVID-19 in Africa than in the rest of the world.
Keep focus on emerging infections
Research funding for emerging infectious diseases rarely reaches the countries where such diseases do the most harm.
Research, innovation vital in new COVID-19 world
In an interconnected world, with pandemic or climate change, development funding must also go to research.
Institutes and Funding in the Age of Pandemic
The president of the Clay Mathematics Institute, a major research center in the US, shares his thoughts about how research meetings and interactions could go on during the pandemic. A question that doesn’t concern only mathematicians. Leave your comments!
HIV testing ‘powered by football’ increase to 30 per cent
In Malawi, a project that used football to attract the youth and educate them on HIV/AIDS increased testing for HIV by about 30 per cent within this population.
