The Olympics without Fans Is Harming Athletes' Performance

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July 28, 2021

Behavior & Society The Olympics without Fans Is Harming Athletes' Performance Simone Biles drops out of an event, citing the lack of an audience By Maddie Bender

Biology Caffeine Boosts Bees' Focus and Helps Them Learn By associating caffeinated sugar-water and a target scent, researchers teach bumblebees to stay on task By Tess Joosse

Space China's Space Station Is Preparing to Host 1,000 Science Experiments The spaceborne studies will cover diverse topics, from dark matter and gravitational waves to the growth of cancer and pathogenic bacteria By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Climate 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 By Maxine Joselow,E&E News

Computing AI Creates False Documents That Fake Out Hackers The algorithm hides sensitive information in a sea of decoys By Sophie Bushwick

Medicine A Few Days on Antibiotics Are Often as Good as Weeks, Research Shows Shorter courses cause fewer side effects and breed fewer antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" By Claudia Wallis

Public Health The Crucial Vaccine Benefit We're Not Talking about Enough They not only prevent people from getting sick; they also cut down on transmission by those who get infected after immunization By Daniel P. Oran,Eric Topol

Space Avi Loeb's Galileo Project Will Search for Evidence of Alien Visitation With nearly $2 million in private funding, the controversial new initiative is targeting unidentified phenomena in Earth's skies and beyond By Adam Mann

Physics Learning to Live in Steven Weinberg's Pointless Universe The late physicist's most infamous statement still beguiles scientists and vexes believers By Dan Falk

Computing How Olympic Tracking Systems Capture Athletic Performances The 3-D tracking systems used in Tokyo may one day enable digital twins of athletes By Eleanor Cummins

The Body This Formula Calculates How Many Calories You Burn If You're Doing Absolutely Nothing When it comes to dieting, here's how to tally the so-called basal metabolic rate By Florian Freistetter

Climate Enlist the Ocean in Combatting Climate Change, Experts and Advocates Argue "Blue carbon" taken up by marine plants and animals is mostly neglected in climate policy, they say By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Ask the Experts: Human Body and Mind The third eBook in our Ask the Experts series, Human Body and Mind tackles questions about our own strange and mysterious biology, from how we evolved to exist this way to feats of body and mind.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Olympics 2016: What Makes or Breaks Top Athletes Will better training and coaching lead to new records, or do drugs and technology determine the score? Explore the science of the Games with these articles | August 2016

QUOTE OF THE DAY "I just felt like it would be a little bit better to take a back seat, work on my mindfulness. And I knew that the girls would do an absolutely great job." Simone Biles, gymnast via NPR

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