What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of May 18, 2021

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Tue, 18 May 2021
Researchers develop mathematical model to predict disease spread patterns

Predicting where, in what patterns and how quickly disease will spread

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials considered contact tracing the most effective way to anticipate the virus’s migration from initial, densely populated hot spots to new locations. Months later, infections were being recorded in similar patterns in nearly every

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Tue, 18 May 2021
Ice core chemistry study expands insights into sea ice variability in Southern Hemisphere 

Sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere is extremely variable

Sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere is extremely variable, from summer to winter and from millennium to millennium, according to a

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