Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism. Gender binarism. Together, they comprise intimately
harmful, distinct, and entangled societal systems of self-serving domination and privilege …

Human mobility impacts many aspects of a city, from its spatial structure,–to its response to
an epidemic,,–. It is also ultimately key to social interactions, innovation, and productivity …

Sudden, large-scale and diffuse human migration can amplify localized outbreaks of
disease into widespread epidemics 1, 2, 3, 4. Rapid and accurate tracking of aggregate …

The coronavirus 2019–2020 pandemic (COVID-19) poses unprecedented challenges for
governments and societies around the world (1). Nonpharmaceutical interventions have …

Responding to an outbreak of a novel coronavirus [agent of coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19)] in December 2019, China banned travel to and from Wuhan city on 23 January …

Background Restricting human mobility is an effective strategy used to control disease
spread. However, whether mobility restriction is a proportional response to control the …

The current COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns worldwide, leading to serious health,
economic, and social challenges. The rapid spread of the virus at a global scale highlights …

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has heightened discussion of
the use of mobile phone data in outbreak response. Mobile phone data have been proposed …

We use aggregated data from Facebook to show that COVID-19 is more likely to spread
between regions with stronger social network connections. Areas with more social ties to two …