Welcome to shopping during the coronavirus pandemic: customers clad in masks, slathered with sanitizer and surrounded by signage urging them to avoid close contact. Despite guidelines plastered on the ...

A combination of robust vaccination programmes and strict physical distancing rules could avoid recurring peaks of COVID-19 without the need to rely on stay-at-home restrictions, according to a new ...

Earlier this year, stringent lockdowns and uncertainty about the severity and transmission of COVID-19 led to the widespread adoption of physical distancing measures across the world. However, as ...

Making space to separate students and teachers remains one of the biggest challenges to in-person instruction during the pandemic, and many administrators are dismayed that the Centers for Disease ...

On Saturday Night Live, guest host Dan Levy got nudged with a pool noodle to make sure he kept 6 feet away from others. Well, that's one way to enforce physical distancing. And we'll get to the pool ...

Children account for a large proportion of new infections in Australia’s current COVID-19 outbreaks. This has raised concerns about their safe return to school. As schools in New South Wales and ...

Physical distancing, not social distancing. Source: Evgeni Tcherkasski/Unsplash It’s April 15, and I haven’t done my taxes. This is not a libertarian, anti-government rant. Taxes are not due till July ...

When people feel physically closer to someone who could be harmed, they are less willing to sacrifice that person for the greater good, according to a new finding reported in Cognition & Emotion.