Researchers used a computer simulation to show how a flushing toilet can create a cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets that is large and widespread and lasts long enough that the droplets could be breathed in by others.
Soft Matter
Jun 16, 2020
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Working from home during COVID-19 appeared to cost us little.
Economics & Business
Jun 11, 2020
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Mayor Jim Kenney kicked off a recent briefing on Philadelphia's coronavirus response with an unusual request for residents: Be careful what you flush.
Environment
Jun 4, 2020
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During the current pandemic, panicked overbuying of products such as toilet paper, cleaning products and similar items often has led to limited options for consumers and empty store shelves. What's often left are generic ...
Economics & Business
May 13, 2020
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People love creating words—in times of crisis it's a "sick" (in the good sense) way of pulling through.
Social Sciences
May 11, 2020
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As governments look to ease general social-distancing measures and instead use more targeted strategies to stop coronavirus transmission, we face a social dilemma about the limits of cooperative behaviour.
Social Sciences
Apr 23, 2020
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Well before hand sanitizer became impossible to find and store shelves across the country were emptied of toilet paper, Brian Aoaeh, who teaches in NYU Tandon's Department of Technology Management and Innovation, was pointing ...
Economics & Business
Apr 8, 2020
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Empty shelves of basics like toilet paper, pasta, canned goods and meats are making grocery shopping a frustrating experience these days, but cart-stuffing shoppers have only themselves to blame, says a University of Alberta ...
Economics & Business
Mar 30, 2020
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Wild stock market gyrations and runs on toilet paper as well as other home goods might seem like acts spurred by financial and economic fear and panic. But Paolo Pasquariello sees such reactions as rational—if not always ...
Social Sciences
Mar 27, 2020
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Hoarding is wrong, and you should not do it, all our experts agree. But the reasons people are overbuying—and that you cannot always find toilet paper, milk, eggs, and cleaning supplies after several states issued a shelter-in-place ...
Social Sciences
Mar 27, 2020
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