What are aerosols and droplets all about anyway? (Image: Quinn Lemmers for Yahoo Life/Stocksy) Experts first isolated SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols back in March, but the extent to which the virus spreads ...

I am a scientist that studies infectious diseases and I specialize in severe respiratory infections, but I also serve as a member of my church’s safety team. Over the past few weeks as states began to ...

Speech droplets generated by asymptomatic carriers of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are increasingly considered to be a likely mode of disease transmission. Highly ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Two groups of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have published papers on the droplets of liquid sprayed by coughs or sneezes and how far they can travel under different ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. An MIT researcher has warned that coronavirus droplets could travel up to 27 feet, which could have major ...

In April, a team of scientists released an alarming video showing how spittle flies through the air when we speak. It suggested that the simple act of speaking could spread the novel coronavirus — if ...

Knowing how germs are transmitted is key to preventing disease, and it varies for different bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens. In some cases, you have to come into direct contact with an infected ...

A debate has erupted among researchers over the potential for the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, to spread through the air and—if it does so often enough—what to do about it. Though talk of ...

A hidden structure inside the cell is rewriting how scientists understand leukemia. Beneath the microscope, what looked like disorder turned out to ...

Infection by COVID-19 is largely caused by airborne transmission, a phenomenon that has rapidly attracted a great deal of attention from the scientific community. The SARS-CoV-2 virus hosted in ...