While the lockdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic led many families to eat more meals at home, they had an additional benefit: an increase in the quality of family time during those dinners, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. 

Compared with just before the Covid-19 pandemic, people are spending nearly an hour less a day doing activities outside the home, behaviour that researchers say is a lasting consequence of the pandemic.

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Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for COVID surveillance that can signal the rise of new variants before they are widespread. The study, led by the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University and published today in the journal Genome Research, presents a way to track diversity across millions of genomes sequenced during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic using new surveillance software and points to its potential use in future pandemics.