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Indoor Air-Cleaning Strategies Are Key to Minimizing Virus Spread

Upward view of city buildings against a blue sky with white clouds.

Q&A: We’ve Been Underestimating Heat Waves. Here’s How to Fix It

Digital traffic sign reading Excessive Heat High Fire Danger Use Caution.

Thirdhand Smoke Exposures Surpass Health Risk Guideline Levels

Cigarette burning in an ash tray.

First ‘Telomere to Telomere’ Human Genome Reveals Secrets of the Centromere

A chromosome (blue) imaged during cell replication. The chromosome is duplicated, and protein strands called spindle fibers (red) are attached to the chromosome copies to pull them apart, so that each ‘daughter cell’ gets one copy.

Efficient and Healthy Schools Campaign Focuses On Indoor Air Quality

Children laughing while conducting a science experiment.

Scientist at Berkeley Lab Played a Hand in ‘Inescapable’ COVID-19 Antibody Discovery

Digital illustration of Y-shaped antibodies surrounding a purple SARS-CoV-2 virus

What if We Could Give Viruses a One-Two Punch?

Michael Connolly (left) and Natalia Molchanova (right) preparing antiviral peptoid samples at the Molecular Foundry. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

Empowering a Neighborhood to Breathe Easy

two scientists collect air sensor data outside a home

The Odd Structure of ORF8: Scientists Map the Coronavirus Protein Linked to Immune Evasion and Disease Severity

It’s All Connected: Your Genes, Your Environment, and Your Health

Cartoon human body with marks indicating various functions of the body

Low-Cost Home Air Quality Monitors Prove Useful for Wildfire Smoke

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X-ray Experiments Zero in on COVID-19 Antibodies

This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.