STEM News Tip: New Research on the Physics of Viruses
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- Published: Wednesday, 02 June 2021 16:00
Some news items in Physics, APS’s new free online magazine, and in AIP's Physics Today cover some recent developments in medical physics that may be of interest, given current events.
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“How a Virus Rolls Itself Across a Cell Surface” reports on a recent paper by Ziebert and Kulić in PRL that proposes a new model of how proteins interact when a flu virus is on the surface of a cell. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/82
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“Exhaled Droplets Grow in Size on Cool Days” introduces new simulations described in a paper by Ng et al in Physical Review Fluids that show how the droplets in a cough change size depending on outside conditions, and discusses how this could affect transmission of illnesses. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/78
- "The air we breathe in a car" by Varghese Mathai covers recent work on air circulation in automobiles, and how it can affect disease transmission. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4779
Check out these, and all sorts of other news, in the latest Physics and Physics Today!