A viewpoint entitled “Thyroid Cancer “Epidemic”: A Socio-Environmental Health Problem Needs Collaborative Efforts” was recently published in ES&T by Tang et al., discussing the topic of the relationship between environmental chemical exposure and thyroid cancer development.(1) We would like to comment on it from epidemiological and medical points of view. Although the current worldwide incidence of

The authors declare no competing financial interest. We thank Fujitani et al.(1) for their comments on our Viewpoint.(2) We appreciate their opinions on thyroid cancer from epidemiological and medical perspectives. Moreover, we concur with their points raised, and we take this opportunity to promote a more constructive discussion about the controversial aspects of thyroid cancer from different angles

The walk time variable extracted from the Demographic Health Survey data sets used in this manuscript(1) refers to round-trip walk time, not one-way walk time as stated in the original article. Throughout the manuscript the phrase “one-way” should be corrected to “round-trip,” including in the abstract, main text, and captions for Tables 1 and 2. All numerical results presented in the manuscript remain

The following joint Editorial was originally published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c10979). We confront the terrible reality that systemic racism and discrimination impacts the daily personal and professional lives of many members of the scientific community and broader society. In the U.S., the brutal killing of George Floyd while in police custody is one of the most

The recent viewpoint article by Qu et al. entitled “An Imperative Need for Research on the Role of Environmental Factors in Transmission of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)” highlights an imperative need for research on SARS-CoV-2 in environmental sciences.(1) It is promising that advanced environmental science and technology will identify environmental factors modifying the infectivity of the virus, the

The presence and detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in sewage promises to be a sensitive tool to monitor the circulation of the virus in the population.(1,2) Researchers around the globe are currently optimizing and testing the protocols and methodology involved for sewage surveillance.(3,4) Their first and foremost aim is to develop a robust system which can

Figure 1. Diagram depicting the main expected differences between degraded and nondegraded polymers. The authors declare no competing financial interest. M.C.R. acknowledges support from an ERC Advanced Grant (694368). W.R.W. acknowledges support from a Fapesp grant (16/24936-3), and a Capes-Humboldt Research Fellowship. This article references 7 other publications.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel member of the Coronaviridae family, has been identified as the etiologic agent of an ongoing pandemic of severe pneumonia known as COVID-19.(1) To date there have been millions of cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in 184 countries with case fatality rates ranging from 1.8% in Germany to 12.5% in Italy.(2) Limited diagnostic testing capacity

The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a public health emergency of international concern. The disease, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), emerged in China in December 2019 and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th, 2020 due to its worldwide spread. This disease has now been reported in over 213 counties/territories