The potential role of air pollution particles is linked to the broader question of how the coronavirus is transmitted. Large virus-laden droplets from infected people’s coughs and sneezes fall to the ground within a metre or two. But much smaller droplets, less than 5 microns in diameter, can remain in the air for minutes to hours and travel further.
The test kits formed a much-publicized part of Chinese aid shipments and sales to European countries stricken by the virus, but were soon plagued by controversy. Most famously, Spain returned a batch of kits to a Chinese manufacturer, Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology, after they were found to be wildly inaccurate.
A report titled Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century, published today by the Commission for the Human Future, has isolated ten potentially catastrophic threats to human survival
Amy Moran-Thomas, the Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT, has been awarded the 2020 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
The test kits formed a much-publicized part of Chinese aid shipments and sales to European countries stricken by the virus, but were soon plagued by controversy. Most famously, Spain returned a batch of kits to a Chinese manufacturer, Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology, after they were found to be wildly inaccurate.
A report titled Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century, published today by the Commission for the Human Future, has isolated ten potentially catastrophic threats to human survival
Amy Moran-Thomas, the Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT, has been awarded the 2020 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
