When COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los ...

Researchers suspect that dark-eyed juncos living in Los Angeles adapted based on the availability of food scraps tossed by ...

On Feb. 17, 2020, the USA TODAY Editorial Board met with the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. As a published synopsis of the interview said: "With China taking ...

Variant-driven COVID-19 cases are increasing and a few U.S. schools and businesses have temporarily reinstated mask mandates to mitigate the virus’s spread. Now, some are sounding the alarm that more ...

The pandemic-induced “lockdowns” were a huge mistake. There has been an enormous surge in excess deaths since the advent of COVID-19, but fewer than half of these excess deaths are due directly to ...

Your mind isn’t playing tricks on you — the pandemic may have affected your memory. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, COVID-19 lockdowns caused people to lose track of ...

Lockdown-related stress led to more severe brain changes in girls, raising concerns about long-term mental health impacts, say scientists. Study: COVID-19 lockdown effects on adolescent brain ...

Earlier this year, an analysis of the efficacy of wearing a mask caused such an uproar that the estimable Cochrane Review issued a very unusual statement to clarify just what the article said (the ...

The Australian Reptile Park has issued an urgent warning that the long-lasting effects of COVID-19 lockdowns are still being ...