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November 15, 2021

Public Health How Do People Resist COVID Infections? Immune cells might abort SARS-CoV-2 infection, forestalling a positive PCR or antibody test, a study in hospital workers suggests By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Planetary Science Ancient Martian 'Lake' May Have Just Been Ephemeral Puddles One study suggests the Curiosity rover's landing site is not as it seems By Lee Billings

Planetary Science Space Rocks Keep Hitting Jupiter. What's the Deal with That? The giant planet's hefty gravitational tug helps explain a spate of recent asteroid strikes By Meghan Bartels,SPACE.com

Climate Change 'COP26 Hasn't Solved the Problem': Scientists React to UN Climate Deal The Glasgow Climate Pact is a step forward, researchers say, but efforts to decarbonize are not enough to limit global temperature rises to 2 °C By Ehsan Masood,Jeff Tollefson,Nature magazine

Cognition Infants as Young as Two Months May Be Able to Detect Faces and Scenes Baby-brain-scanning experiments fuel the debate over whether humans are born with these abilities By Dana G. Smith

Politics New FDA Chief Will Face COVID Woes and Calls for Drug-Approval Reform After long delay, U.S. President Joe Biden picks Robert Califf to once again head the U.S. Food and Drug Administration By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Behavior Personality Type, as well as Politics, Predicts Who Shares Fake News Highly impulsive people who lean conservative are more likely to share false news stories. They have a desire to create chaos and won't be deterred by fact-checkers By Asher Lawson,Hemant Kakkar

Dinosaurs Flocking Together May Have Helped Dinosaurs Dominate the Earth A fossil bed in Patagonia provides evidence of complex social structure in dinosaurs as early as 193 million years ago. And scientists say that herding behavior could have been key to the beasts' success. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:31

Pharmaceuticals Investigating Antidepressants' Surprising Effect on COVID Deaths Researchers are still puzzling over what this drug does at the molecular level to help COVID patients By Esther Landhuis

Memory How Certain Gestures Help You Learn New Words Researchers used headsets that release disruptive magnetic pulses to study how motor brain areas contribute to the effect By Christiane Gelitz

Arts Poem: 'The Way of Karma' Science in meter and verse By Monica Ong

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

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