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Welcome to Sunday. Our top five articles from the past week are listed below.
Worth another read today is an article originally posted during The Conversation’s first day of publishing. Back in 2014, historian Daina Ramey Berry explained why much of what you may think you know about slavery in America is wrong. More than 1.7 million people have read her words since the article first ran, including 400,000 since March of this year.
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SARS-CoV-2 turns on a cellular switch to build the tubes in this photo – called filopodia – that might help viral particles – the little spheres – spread more easily.
Dr Elizabeth Fischer, NIAID NIH / Bouhaddou et al. Elsevier 2020
Nevan Krogan, University of California, San Francisco
Kinases are cellular control switches. When they malfunction, they can cause cancer. The coronavirus hijacks these kinases to replicate, and cancer drugs that target them could fight COVID-19.
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A vast plume of Saharan dust blankets Havana, Cuba, June 24, 2020.
Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images
Scott Denning, Colorado State University
From June through October, it's not unusual for huge Saharan dust plumes to blow across the Atlantic. They can darken skies but also bring calmer weather and electric sunsets. Here's how they form.
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Jeyaraj Vadiveloo, University of Connecticut
A simple computer model shows that safety measures can significantly impact both the exponential spread of COVID-19 and mortality rates.
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Marlene Daut, University of Virginia
After enduring decades of exploitation at the hands of the French, Haiti somehow ended up paying reparations – to the tune of nearly $30 billion in today's money.
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Adrian Bardon, Wake Forest University
Whether in situations relating to scientific consensus, economic history or current political events, denialism has its roots in what psychologists call 'motivated reasoning.'
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