Vaccines
Biden’s New Plan to Combat COVID is a Start, but Experts Say There Is a Ways to Go
The plan includes vaccine mandates for federal workers and those at companies with 100 or more employees, but some experts say it doesn’t go far enough
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A Big Day Birding and a Possible Fifth Force of Nature
Reduction of food waste, infinite math and quantum physics experiments designed by AI in our October issue
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50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: September 2021
U.S. could go metric; vicious fish
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Abortion Rights Are at the Greatest Risk since Roe v. Wade Was Decided in 1972
The Supreme Court will hear a case in the upcoming term that could officially overturn that historic ruling
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Fix Disaster Response Now
Emergency management leaves out vulnerable groups and is poorly prepared for worsening climate-related disasters
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Readers Respond to the April 2021 Issue
Letters to the editor from the April 2021 issue of Scientific American
Public Health
YouTube’s Plan to Showcase Credible Health Information Is Flawed, Experts Warn
Search results may include a special section with videos from sources that are deemed reliable
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Is This Food Really Healthy? New Packaging Labels Would Tell You
A simple traffic light symbol or a set of stars on the fronts of food products would advise consumers
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Academic Institutions Must Do Better to Protect Caregivers This Fall
Schools, colleges and universities that fail to impose mask mandates and other COVID protections put working parents in an excruciating position
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Why Bad Science Is Sometimes More Appealing Than Good Science
Researchers cite studies that can’t be replicated weirdly often
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Progress on Autoimmune Disorders, Mountain Lions and Venus
Training science writers for a future of solutions
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Climate Change
How Much Worse Will Thawing Arctic Permafrost Make Climate Change?
Global warming is setting free carbon from life buried long ago in the Arctic’s frozen soils, but its impact on the climate crisis is unclear
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Deaf Children in Developing Countries Are Getting Inferior Cochlear Implants
The technology they receive is often obsolete or has never been used in wealthier nations
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Canada’s Residential Schools Were a Horror
Founded to carry out the genocide of Indigenous people, they created conditions that killed thousands of children
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50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: August 2021
Tasty radio; early fake leather
Climate Change
Red States Seek to Block Biden Update to Key Climate Metric
Ten Republican attorneys general have asked a federal court to keep a revamped social cost of carbon from taking effect
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NASA Investigates Renaming James Webb Space Telescope after Anti-LGBT+ Claims
Some astronomers argue the space agency’s next flagship observatory will memorialize discrimination. Others are waiting for more evidence
