Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.

Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...

Background Raised cardiac troponin-I is a common finding in patients hospitalised with acute viral infections, including but not limited to COVID-19. This often occurs in the absence of overt ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

Wondering where to find data for your Python data science projects? Find out why Kaggle is my go-to and how I explore data ...

A new study led by York University found that not only could machine-learning models accurately pinpoint differences in healthy controls and those living with HIV, but also found outliers in both ...

This week, astronomers reported that one of the biggest observed stars in the universe could soon explode. A study compared ...

Measures Data from MHRC, collected between April 2020 and January 2024, including sociodemographic factors and measures of burnout, anxiety and depression. Results In total, 1439 participants were ...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has transitioned into an endemic phase with heterogeneous resurgences. Despite widespread vaccination and public health measures, the interplay of viral evolution, ...

Regex is a powerful – yet overlooked – tool in search and data analysis. With just a single line, you can automate what would otherwise take dozens of lines of code. Short for “regular expression,” ...

Changes in the vaccine advisory process in the United States have disrupted immunization guidance, which reinforces the need for independent evidence review to inform decisions regarding immunization ...