Health Effects of 9/11 Still Plague Responders and Survivors

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September 10, 2021

History Health Effects of 9/11 Still Plague Responders and Survivors Those who were exposed to Ground Zero have increased rates of certain cancers and other health problems By Tara Haelle

Public Health COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden's New Plan Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 07:57

Behavior How 9/11 Ushered in a New Era of Conspiracy Theories The breakdown of institutional legitimacy helped shape our current information crisis By Jason Stanley

Genetics 'Guerilla' Artist Daisy Ginsberg Re-creates Scent of Extinct Flowers Ginsberg collaborates with synthetic biologists to create eau de Leucadendron and her latest: artwork for insects By Lisa Melton,Nature Biotechnology

Natural Disasters 'Explosive' Dixie Fire Could Become Biggest in CA History Extremely dry conditions could help the blaze overtake last year's August Complex fire as the record holder By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

Climate Change Abandoning 60 Percent of Global Oil and Gas Might Limit Warming to 1.5 C Coal production needs to have already peaked and oil and gas production must steadily decline for even a 50 percent chance of meeting that target By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Engineering What Structural Engineers Learned from 9/11 Members of the profession study such tragic events to try and ensure that something similar won't happen again By Donald Dusenberry

Animals Mammoth Tusk Analysis Reveals Epic Lifetime Journey around Alaska Researchers find the mammoth walked far enough to circle the globe twice By Esther Megbel,Tess Joosse

Microbiology COVID Advances Win $3-million Breakthrough Prizes Pioneers of mRNA vaccines and next-generation sequencing techniques are among the winners of science's most lucrative awards By Zeeya Merali,Nature magazine

Ecology Wolf Populations Drop as More States Allow Hunting Repercussions of planned and anticipated wolf hunts and traps could ripple through ecosystems for years to come, scientists say By Tess Joosse

Health Care The Terrible Toll of 76 Autoimmune Diseases This list shows how common each disorder is, which body parts are stricken, and the illnesses' tendency to afflict women By Maddie Bender,Jen Christiansen,Miriam Quick

Medicine Misophonia Might Not Be about Hating Sounds After All The phenomenon triggers strong negative reactions to everyday sounds but might come from subconscious mirroring behavior By Christiane Gelitz,Maddie Bender

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FROM THE ARCHIVE What Was in the World Trade Center Plume? [Interactive] Ten years later, what exactly residents and rescue workers were exposed to remains at least a partial mystery By David Biello | September 2011

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Most Americans just think two buildings came down that day and innocent lives were lost to senseless violence, and that did happen...But many don't know that tens of thousands of people got sick, and many have died since then from their illnesses contracted at Ground Zero." John Feal, founder of the FealGood Foundation

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