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The pandemic mixed up what scientists study – and some won’t go back

Thousands of researchers have jumped into studying coronavirus and many want to continue: part 8 in a series on science after the pandemic.
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Roser Valentí typically spends her days using quantum physics to understand exotic states of matter. But last month she turned her modelling skills to a very different problem — simulating the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic. “Our normal daily things lost their importance,” says the theoretical physicist at the Goethe University Frankfurt, in Germany. “We thought: can we do something to contribute to understanding what’s going on?”

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Nature 582, 173-174 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01525-z

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