Egan J Chernoff receives (and has received) funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. University of Saskatchewan provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA.

With COVID-19 vaccines working and restrictions lifting across the country, it’s finally time for those now vaccinated who’ve been hunkered down at home to ditch the sweatpants and reemerge from their ...

New research casts a light on how other species shift social interactions, and practice social distancing in the presence of a contagious pathogen. Animals from ants to bats to lobsters employ a ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the public face of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic response, told lawmakers this week that the social distancing recommendations forced on Americans "sort of just appeared" and were ...

Adarsh Jagan SathyamoorthyUniversity of MarylandCould a COVID-19 robot help in social distancing surveillance? We spoke to Professor Dinesh Manocha and Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy about how their new ...

Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. Four years later, the coronavirus has not disappeared—but the health measures are gone, and so is most daily concern about the pandemic. Yet much ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its recommendations for social distancing in K-12 schools Friday, saying 3 feet of space between students who are wearing masks is a sufficient ...

The share of Americans who say they’re taking precautions against coronavirus like mask wearing and avoiding public activities is at its highest point since last spring, according to a new Axios/Ipsos ...

Changing people’s behavior until a vaccine could be developed prevented roughly 800,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., far more than many scientists predicted was possible, according to new CU Boulder ...

(CNN) -- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the nation should move away from restrictive measures such as quarantines and social distancing and focus on reducing severe disease ...

I was in my 20s when I taught myself how to hug. Warm and consistent physical affection wasn’t a cornerstone of my upbringing. I remember watching other little girls hug each other at the bus stop or ...