Dr. Amesh Adalja Explains Social Distancing for COVID-19, Birds Won’t Spread Fake News, and Using Auroras to Find Exoplanets

Dr. Amesh Adalja, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, explains how today’s unprecedented closures can help save lives from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Plus: learn how birds avoid spreading fake news and how astronomers are using auroras to find distant exoplanets.

Birds alter the spread of information based on its trustworthiness by Kelsey Donk

• University of Montana researchers study how birds retweet news. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/tuom-uom021420.php
• Carlson, N. V., Greene, E., & Templeton, C. N. (2020). Nuthatches vary their alarm calls based upon the source of the eavesdropped signals. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14414-w

Astronomers are finding distant exoplanets by looking for auroras in their home stars by Grant Currin

• Vedantham, H. K., Callingham, J. R., Shimwell, T. W., Tasse, C., Pope, B. J. S., Bedell, M., Snellen, I., Best, P., Hardcastle, M. J., Haverkorn, M., Mechev, A., O’Sullivan, S. P., Röttgering, H. J. A., & White, G. J. (2020). Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star–planet interaction. Nature Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1011-9
• New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery | Quanta Magazine. (2020). Quanta Magazine. https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-exoplanet-search-strategy-claims-first-discovery-20200218/

Additional resources recommended by Dr. Amesh Adalja:

• Official website http://www.trackingzebra.com/
• Follow @AmeshAA on Twitter https://twitter.com/AmeshAA
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 information https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
• STAT https://www.statnews.com/

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