COVID Vaccine Authorized for Kids Aged 5 to 11

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November 05, 2021

Vaccines COVID Vaccine Authorized for Kids Aged 5 to 11 The FDA's decision to expand eligibility for the Pfizer vaccine to young kids could mean less illness, safer school and more freedom By Tara Haelle

Astrophysics Hunt for Alien Life Tops Next-Gen Wish List for U.S. Astronomy A major report outlining the highest priorities and recommendations for U.S. astronomy has finally been released, revealing the shape of things to come By Lee Billings

Animals Dog and Cat 'Moms' and 'Dads' Really Are Parenting Their Pets Evolutionary science suggests that humans nurture their pets like they do human children By Shelly Volsche,The Conversation US

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.

Vaccines Common Antidepressant Slashes Risk of COVID Death Fluvoxamine is both inexpensive and highly effective at preventing mild COVID-19 from turning severe By Saima May Sidik,Nature magazine

Medicine Gene Therapy Is Coming of Age Various approaches are approved for treating blood cancers and a few rare disorders—they may soon become standard care By Lauren Gravitz

Vaccines How COVID Vaccines for Young Kids Could Change the Pandemic As U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers recommend authorizing shots for children aged five to 11, researchers predict what this might mean for populations By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Behavior Other People Don't Think You're a Mess Individuals often overestimate how harshly others judge them. But self-compassion can help build a more balanced, healthy perspective By Anna Bruk

Psychology A Change to the Sound of the Voice Can Change Your Very Self-Identity A French physician explains what happened to some of his patients By Guillaume Jacquemont

Policy Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase More oversight of dealers and investment in impoverished communities are key to reducing violence, say experts By Jim Daley

Climate Change As Biden Heads to Climate Talks, Supreme Court Move Could Stymie EPA Regulation The court made a stunning decision to hear a challenge to the agency's authority to restrict greenhouse gas emissions By Lesley Clark,Niina H. Farah,Pamela King,E&E News

Robotics Firefighting Robots Go Autonomous Both independent and remote-controlled machines can save lives By Jane Braxton Little

FROM THE STORE Existence and Other Questions: Selected Works of John Horgan Does free will exist? Is the Schrödinger Equation True? How does matter make a mind? In his Scientific American column, John Horgan takes a scientific approach to exploring mysteries such as these, and in this eBook, we collect some of his most thought-provoking work on consciousness, quantum mechanics, the science of psychedelic drugs and more.

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BRING SCIENCE HOME Marble Race--in Liquid! Syrup or honey? Oil or water? Who will win in this liquid, marble-race challenge? Test the viscosity of common liquids around your house, and find out! Credit: George Retseck Have you ever tried to squeeze honey or syrup out of a bottle at breakfast on a chilly winter morning? Do you notice that it's harder to do that than on a hot summer day? As the liquid gets colder, its viscosity, or resistance to flow, increases. Viscosity is a properly of liquids that can be very important in very different applications—from how the syrup flows out of your bottle to how blood flows through the human body to how lava flows out of a volcano. In this project you will learn a little bit about viscosity by holding a marble race!

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