Should You Get a Booster Shot? Here's What We Know

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August 20, 2021

Vaccines Should You Get a Booster Shot? Here's What We Know Experts weigh in on common questions about whether and when additional doses of coronavirus vaccines may be needed By Tanya Lewis

Natural Disasters Tropical Storm Henri Could Bring Dangerous Storm Surge The moon, wind direction, atmospheric pressure and seafloor shape all help determine how high a surge will be By Anthony C. Didlake Jr.,The Conversation US

Ecology Ozone Hole Would Have Killed Plants and Raised Global Temperatures Without the Montreal Protocol, more solar radiation would have destroyed plants, lessening the CO2 they absorb By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Basic Chemistry The Science Inside Your Ice Cream A new video series from Scientific American and Spektrum der Wissenschaft gives you a serving of science. By Spektrum,Scientific American Staff

Materials Science A Flexible Fabric Could Harden into a Temporary House or Bridge Ancient chain mail served as an inspiration for a highly unusual material that might one day lead to such applications By Lars Fischer

Climate Change What the Acrid Smoke from Wildfires Can Teach Us Among other things, it can make those who experience it understand that climate change is visceral and palpable By Blanche Verlie

Health Care Years Before COVID-19, Zombies Helped Prepare One Hospital System for the Real Pandemic An educational experiment used escape rooms and the undead to set the stage for a terrible situation that would become all too real. By Maddie Bender | 05:46

Natural Disasters The True Haiti Earthquake Death Toll Is Much Worse Than Early Official Counts A tool built by the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that the number of fatalities may range from 10,000 to 100,000 or more By Sara Reardon

Epidemiology Masks Are a Must-Have to Go Back to School during the Delta Variant Surge Face coverings are essential to protecting children, keeping schools open and slowing the highly contagious coronavirus variant, experts say By Emily Willingham

Vaccines A New Resource for Fighting Vaccine Misinformation The #ScienceUpFirst initiative was created to provide, support and amplify accurate scientific information to help people make informed health decisions By Jonathan N. Stea,Krishana Sankar

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Booster Shots against Scary COVID Virus Variants Are in the Works Vaccine makers are designing follow-up shots based on new mutations to keep the disease at bay By Charles Schmidt | February 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "If you wait for something bad to happen...you're considerably behind your real full capability of being responsive." Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden

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