Why We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks--and Where to Get Them

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October 01, 2021

Public Health Why We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks--and Where to Get Them High-quality respirators such as N95s and K95s are now widely available and provide the best protection against COVID, according to experts. Why aren't more people wearing them? By Tanya Lewis

Epidemiology Even Mild Cases of COVID May Leave a Mark on the Brain The new findings, although preliminary, are raising concerns about the potential long-term effects of COVID-19 By Jessica Bernard,The Conversation US

Consciousness Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking Fear of mortality might underlie physicists' fondness for the anthropic principle, multiverses, superdeterminism and other shaky ideas By John Horgan

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

Behavior Unvaccinated Workers Say They'd Rather Quit Than Get a Shot, but Data Suggest Otherwise The actual number who resign rather than get the vaccine is much smaller than the survey data suggest By Jack J. Barry,Ann Christiano,Annie Neimand,The Conversation US

Animals Extreme Birding Competition Is a Cutthroat Test of Skill, Strategy and Endurance A team of birders races to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours By Kate Wong

Medicine Do Monoclonal Antibodies Help COVID Patients? Experts explain what this treatment involves, who needs it and how to get it By Sara Reardon

Extraterrestrial Life How to Search for Life as We Don't Know It Much of astrobiology is focused on looking for organisms with chemistry similar to ours—but there could well be other kinds By Avi Loeb

Pharmaceuticals Fringe Doctors' Groups Promote Ivermectin for COVID despite a Lack of Evidence The organizations touting unproved protocols for the antiparasitic drug may be harming vaccination efforts By Christina Szalinski

Transportation 'Self-Driving' Cars Begin to Emerge from a Cloud of Hype Developers try to overcome a multitude of technical challenges before vehicles drive on their own By Steven E. Shladover

Epidemiology Closest Known Relatives of Virus Behind COVID-19 Found in Laos Studies of bats in China and Laos show southeast Asia is a hotspot for potentially dangerous viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Weather Hurricane Sam Is Latest Monster in Active Storm Season Tropical cyclones are becoming more intense, but not necessarily more frequent, with climate change By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Climate Change Fungi Might Have Helped Drag the Planet Out of Its 'Snowball Earth' Phase Nearly a billion years ago, the planet was almost wholly encased in thousands of feet of ice—and then, somehow, it emerged By Jennifer Frazer

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BRING SCIENCE HOME Gone with the Wind: Plant Seed Dispersal Scattering seeds! Learn how some of the most fun seeds of summer travel so well on the breeze. Can you design a seed that scatters well with the wind? Credit: George Retseck Have you ever looked outside on a windy day and seen "helicopter" seeds spinning through the air? Or picked up a dandelion and blown on it, sending the tiny, fluffy seeds flying all over the place? Wind is very important for dispersing seeds to help plants reproduce. In this project you will design some of your own "seeds" and see which ones work best when they are blown across the room by a fan.

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