As the novel COVID-19 pandemic continues to upend life and business around the globe, countless industries are struggling to adjust how they operate in unprecedented circumstances. The media industry finds itself in a similar ...
Economics & Business
Mar 26, 2020
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The process to get products to consumers—delivered to their door or to the store—can be long and meandering, sometimes starting 6,000 miles away. A disruption to any leg of that journey can affect the customer, store, ...
Economics & Business
Mar 25, 2020
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In the race to develop a treatment for COVID-19, the disease threatening millions of lives around the world, scientists are studying every aspect of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes it.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 25, 2020
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Researchers at the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication spent the weekend surveying people's attitudes towards the risk of coronavirus, and their governments' reactions.
Political science
Mar 25, 2020
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Whether it's served with butter and ham, drowned in hollandaise sauce or topped with a fried egg, nothing says spring in Germany like asparagus.
Social Sciences
Mar 25, 2020
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Deaths, economic meltdown and a planet on lockdown: the coronavirus pandemic has brought us waves of bad news, but squint and you might just see a few bright spots.
Social Sciences
Mar 25, 2020
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The outbreak of coronavirus has exposed the fragility of a labour market characterised by the growing gig economy, zero-hours contracts and self-employment. None of these forms of work have employment benefits like sick pay. ...
Economics & Business
Mar 24, 2020
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The current COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly changing the way we live and the way we work. Do these changes signal long-lasting impacts on the design and architecture of our cities? We spoke to UBC professor Patrick Condon, the ...
Social Sciences
Mar 24, 2020
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As scientists around the world race to decode the coronavirus that has caused more than 15,000 deaths in a matter of months, a group of University of Chicago chemists are focusing on understanding how the virus's RNA works—which ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 24, 2020
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Food security is no laughing matter at the best of times, but I gasped when I first read the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra) annual food civil contingencies infrastructure report in 2018. It is ...
Economics & Business
Mar 23, 2020
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