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October 08, 2021

Vaccines Pregnant and Unvaccinated: Delta's Deadly Toll The number of pregnant people suffering from severe COVID is preventable tragedy By Carolyn Barber

Physiology 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded for Discoveries in Sensing Temperature and Touch David Julius's and Ardem Patapoutian's research revealed the molecular basis of these basic senses By Tanya Lewis

Planetary Science Physics Nobel Honors Breakthroughs in Understanding Climate and Other Complex Systems Half the award goes to Giorgio Parisi for his studies of disorder and chaos. The remainder is shared between Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for modeling global warming and climate variability By Lee Billings,Nikk Ogasa

Sponsor Content Provided by AstraZeneca Meet the 2021 C2 Awards Honorees Redefining cancer care takes a community. The third annual Cancer Community Awards (or C2 Awards) celebrate the grassroots changemakers on the frontlines of cancer care. Meet this year’s honorees and learn more at YourCancer.org

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

Climate Change To Beat the Heat, Phoenix Paints Its Streets Gray A reflective gray material can lower road surface temperatures By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Space Exploration Mercury Dazzles in New Close-up from BepiColombo Mission The European and Japanese spacecraft performed the first of six slingshot maneuvers around the planet. It will ultimately insert two probes into orbit in 2025 By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Extraterrestrial Life Microbes, Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Humanity's greatest achievement might be building our successors By Avi Loeb

Climate Change Biosphere 2: The Once Infamous Live-In Terrarium Is Transforming Climate Research Despite its controversial past, the quirky desert facility is becoming increasingly relevant as it turns 30 By Keridwen Cornelius

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

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

Astronomy NASA Won't Rename the James Webb Space Telescope--and Astronomers Are Angry The agency found no evidence that the flagship observatory's namesake was involved in anti-LGBT+ activities, but some say that Webb bears responsibility By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Mental Health Experimental Brain Implant Could Personalize Depression Therapy Symptoms subsided for one woman after a carefully targeted neural circuit was stimulated By Gary Stix

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

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