When Will Kids' COVID Vaccines Be Available?

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September 23, 2021

Vaccines When Will Kids' COVID Vaccines Be Available? Pfizer expects to have safety and efficacy data on five- to 11-year-olds by the end of the month, but federal authorities must still review it By Tara Haelle

Paleontology Footprint Discovery Hints at Humans in the Americas More Than 20,000 Years Ago Seeds found in fossilized tracks fuel new speculation about when—and how—people arrived By Riley Black

Climate Change Wildfire Is Transforming Alaska and Amplifying Climate Change Although conflagrations in lower latitudes get more attention, wildfires across the high north are affecting the planet even more By Randi Jandt,Alison York

Space Exploration Don't Count on Billionaires to Get Humanity into Space Far from pioneering wide access to orbit, privately funded spaceflight is geared to perpetuate inequities in space and on Earth By Lucianne Walkowicz

Inequality Why the Term 'JEDI' Is Problematic for Describing Programs That Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion They’re meant to be heroes within the Star Wars universe, but the Jedi are inappropriate symbols for justice work By J. W. Hammond,Sara E. Brownell,Nita A. Kedharnath,Susan J. Cheng,W. Carson Byrd

Oceans Bringing Fisheries Back from the Brink Marine biologist Daniel Pauly did a turnabout from helping fishing trawlers to fighting them. Can struggling fisheries now turn around? By Richard Schiffman

Exercise Why Sports Concussions Are Worse For Women As women’s soccer, rugby and other sports gain popularity, scientists are racing to understand how the female brain responds to head injury By Katharine Sanderson,Nature magazine

Dinosaurs Some Dinosaurs May Have Wagged their Tails to Help Them Run This may be for the same reason humans swing their arms when walking and running. By Yasemin Saplakoglu,LiveScience

Ecology Invasive Cheatgrass Spreads Under City Lights The prolific plant, which impacts agriculture and spurs wildfire, seems to particularly benefit from streetlights By Tess Joosse

Fossil Fuels China Says It Will Stop Financing Coal Power Abroad The announcement came as the U.S. promised quadruple its international climate finance contributions By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Astronomy The Nail-Biting Journey of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is About to Begin Before it can study the first stars and galaxies, the observatory must endure a sea voyage, a rocket launch and an all-or-nothing deployment sequence in deep space By Nikk Ogasa

Agriculture Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger Millions of farmers are growing and sharing food in ways that enhance nutrition, biodiversity and quality of life   By Raj Patel

Evolution Meet the Bat Woman and Bat Man of India They sealed their love with dead bats. Now these researchers are on a mission to save India’s endangered chiropteran species together. By Emily V. Driscoll

FROM THE STORE The Math of Everything   Galileo said that mathematics is the language of nature. This eBook examines math across disciplines, exploring how math is the backbone connecting the physical, social and economic worlds. From practical questions about the significance of p values and using math to fight gerrymandering to the top theoretical problems in the field, this collection looks at what math reveals about our universe.

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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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