Unraveling the Mystery of Why Children Are Better Protected from COVID Than Adults

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August 26, 2021

Public Health Unraveling the Mystery of Why Children Are Better Protected from COVID Than Adults Their immune system is more primed to fight off the novel coronavirus By Lars Fischer

Evolution How Did Neanderthals and Other Ancient Humans Learn to Count? Archaeological finds suggest that people developed numbers tens of thousands of years ago. Scholars are now exploring the first detailed hypotheses about this life-changing invention By Colin Barras,Nature magazine

Inequality Too Many Scientists Still Say Caucasian Racist ideas of categories for human identity continue to warp research and medicine By Alice B. Popejoy,Nature magazine

Behavior How to Reduce Racial Disparities in Smoking Deaths African Americans die at a higher rate than other groups yet have a harder time quitting—but new evidence-based approaches can change that By Bryan W. Heckman,Anne Davis,James E.K. Hildreth

Space Exploration Why Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin Is So Reviled Economic inequality, an indulgent trip to space and an ongoing legal battle with NASA are putting the space company in the hot seat By Chelsea Gohd,SPACE.com

Public Health How COVID, Inequality and Politics Make a Vicious Syndemic Overlapping diseases and social conditions in the U.S. continue to dictate who is hurt most badly by the novel coronavirus By Emily Mendenhall,Clarence C. Gravlee

Epidemiology Humanitarians Push to Vaccinate in Conflict Zones Pandemic ceasefires offer an opportunity to expand vaccination efforts, experts say. But negotiation is tricky By Madeline Drexler,Undark

Policy 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 By Tess Joosse

Neurology Alzheimer's, Inc.: When a Hypothesis Becomes Too Big to Fail This summer's controversy surrounding the FDA's shocking approval of the drug aducanumab provides a window into a scientific field in crisis By Daniel R. George,Peter J. Whitehouse

Natural Disasters Home Seismometers Provide Crucial Data on Haiti's Quake A volunteer network helps to monitor aftershocks and illuminate the country's earthquake hazards By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Transportation Chip Shortage Could Slow Electric Vehicle Rollouts And no one is certain how long the shortage will last By Corbin Hiar,E&E News

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Should Children Get COVID Vaccines? What the Science Says With vaccination campaigns underway in some countries while others weigh the options, Nature looks at the evidence for vaccinating younger people By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine | July 2021

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