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April 21, 2020 371 - What Is the Air Quality Like Near You?
Is the air noticeably clearer where you live right now? For Earth Day, you can become a citizen scientist by using an app to track air pollution in your neighborhood.
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April 20, 2020 371 - What Is the Air Quality Like Near You?
Is the air noticeably clearer where you live right now? For Earth Day, you can become a citizen scientist by using an app to track air pollution in your neighborhood.
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April 14, 2020 370 - What's the Difference Between Germs, Bacteria, and Viruses?
What’s the difference between a germ, a virus, and bacteria? Let's put these different disease-causing objects under a microscope and find out.
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April 12, 2020 370 - What's the Difference Between Germs, Bacteria, and Viruses?
What’s the difference between a germ, a virus, and bacteria? Let's put these different disease-causing objects under a microscope and find out.
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April 07, 2020 369 - Is Pollution Clearing While We're Staying Home?
Although quarantine challenges us all, the reduction in human activity has meant good things for nature and our environment. Can we sustain that progress?
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April 06, 2020 369 - Is Pollution Clearing While We're Staying Home?
Although quarantine challenges us all, the reduction in human activity has meant good things for nature and our environment. Can we sustain that progress?
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March 31, 2020 368 - Coronavirus Myths and Facts with Epidemics Expert Dr. Jonathan Quick
One of the best things you can do to protect yourself from the threat of COVID-19 is to separate the facts from the myths. Dr. Jonathan Quick, infectious disease expert and author of The End of Epidemics, joined Everyday Einstein to tell you how.
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15 min
March 30, 2020 368 - Coronavirus Myths and Facts with Epidemics Expert Dr. Jonathan Quick
One of the best things you can do to protect yourself from the threat of COVID-19 is to separate the facts from the myths. Dr. Jonathan Quick, infectious disease expert and author of The End of Epidemics, joined Ask Science to tell you how.
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March 24, 2020 174 - How Are Seasonal Flu Vaccines Made?
Each year a new flu shot is developed to try to combat the strains of the virus expected to wreak havoc that season. But who decides which viruses make it into the vaccine? What new technologies are being used to produce that vaccine more efficiently?
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March 23, 2020 174 - How Are Seasonal Flu Vaccines Made?
Each year a new flu shot is developed to try to combat the strains of the virus expected to wreak havoc that season. But who decides which viruses make it into the vaccine? What new technologies are being used to produce that vaccine more efficiently?
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