The nation's top mental health official had spent months asking for evidence behind the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's social distancing guidelines, warning that keeping Americans ...

"Social capital" refers to connections between citizens that generate trust, reciprocity and participation in social and political life. But social capital faces enormous challenges when pitted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The CDC is no longer recommending social distancing as a way to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, it is shifting toward ...

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 ...

Social distancing when sick has become second nature to many of us in the past few years, but some sick animals appear to take a different approach. A new study of house finches led by Marissa ...

In a recent study posted to the Research Square* preprint server researchers evaluated the effectiveness of social distancing measures adopted to curb the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world we live in. Informative signs, designed to limit the virus’s spread are everywhere these days, reminding us: Wear a mask, wash your hands, cover your mouth ...

While social distancing is now recommended by the Centers for Disease Control as a method to help flatten the COVID-19 curve, we've actually been practicing a kind of social distancing at an emotional ...

Newly released testimony from Dr. Francis Collins, the former Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who helped lead America’s COVID-19 pandemic response, indicates that there was a lack ...

New York State courts are decreasing social distancing measures — while still requiring face coverings — as part of a push to move toward resuming normal operations and “clear out our backlogs,” ...

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 ...