New Molecular Tool Kit Wins Chemistry Nobel

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October 06, 2021

Basic Chemistry New Molecular Tool Kit Wins Chemistry Nobel Two chemists devised a faster, cleaner and more precise way to construct drug molecules and other modern materials By Josh Fischman

Privacy A Blank Wall Can Show How Many People Are in a Room and What They're Doing The technique is the latest method to glean a surprising amount of surveillance from a meager source By Sophie Bushwick

Politics Francis Collins, Head of NIH Who Led Human Genome Project, to Step Down After 12 years at the helm of the top biomedical research agency, the geneticist will return to running his lab by year's end By Nidhi Subbaraman,Nature magazine

Neurology An Inventory of All the Brain Cells That Let You Run, Jump and Roll A project to map the motor cortex used the widest range of tools for probing brain cells ever deployed in a single, coordinated effort By Simon Makin

Neurology A Cell Atlas Reveals the Biodiversity inside Our Head The NIH's Cell Census delivers on its promise by mapping the cells in the motor cortex By Christof Koch,Ed S. Lein,Hongkui Zeng

Medicine Deadly Falls among the Elderly Are on the Rise They could be reduced with targeted exercise and some technological innovations By Claudia Wallis

Health Care An Elbow Injury Exposes the Exorbitant Costs of Health Care Bills totaling $287,365.08 provide insights into the dysfunctional economics of American medicine By John Horgan

Weather NOAA Sailed a Drone into the Heart of Powerful Hurricane Sam Data collected by the vessel could improve future hurricane models and forecasts By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Space Exploration Russian Crew Arrives at Space Station for a Historic Film Shoot After a tense manual docking by a professional cosmonaut, the Soyuz spacecraft's other occupants—an actress and a director—are set to make a first-of-its-kind movie in orbit By Tereza Pultarova,SPACE.com

Reproduction Vaccination Protects Pregnant People and Their Babies from Severe COVID Studies show the vaccines against the disease not only can be safely given to people who are expecting but can also save lives By Mariana Lenharo

Behavior How Pandemic Life Mimicked Pioneer Times Sourdough, seeds, shovels and other basic survival needs made a comeback By Lydia Denworth

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 325, Issue 4

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "Chemists are kind of like magicians...They wave a magic wand and create something new." H.N. Cheng, president of the American Chemical Society

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