The Benefits of Vaccinating Kids against COVID Far Outweigh the Risks of Myocarditis

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December 02, 2021

Vaccines The Benefits of Vaccinating Kids against COVID Far Outweigh the Risks of Myocarditis Vaccination is likely to prevent many more COVID cases than it is to cause a rare and nonfatal heart side effect in 5–11-year-olds By Tanya Lewis

Planetary Science Heavy Metal Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Star With a density close to that of pure iron, GJ 367b may be the remnant metal-rich core of an evaporated giant world By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Politics Conservative Justices Seem Poised to Overturn Roe's Abortion Rights Justices heard arguments Wednesday in a case over a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy By Julie Rovner,Kaiser Health News

Fossil Fuels Fulfilling Pledge to Ban Federal Drilling Proves Difficult for Biden Administration Ending oil and gas drilling on federal lands would cause a relatively small reduction in greenhouse gas emissions By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Psychology Peace Is More Than War's Absence, And New Research Explains How To Build It A new project measures ways to promote positive social relations among groups By Peter T. Coleman,Allegra Chen-Carrel,Vincent Hans Michael Stueber

Medicine Is There More to a Healthy-Heart Diet Than Cholesterol? A high-fat diet is thought to increase the risk of a heart attack. But some say that the long-held dogma of "bad" cholesterol might be flawed By Natalie Healey

Public Health COVID's Cardiac Connection Coronavirus infections might cause lasting harm to the heart even in those who have never had symptoms By Elie Dolgin

Inequality Lost Women of Science Podcast: Season One, The Pathologist in the Basement Lost Women of Science digs deep to uncover stories of scientists that have long been overlooked By Katie Hafner,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Pharmaceuticals How the New Antiviral Pills Help Thwart COVID A drug made by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics—which an FDA panel recently greenlit—and one made by Pfizer work in different ways, but both prevent the virus from replicating By Stephani Sutherland

Particle Physics Elusive Neutrino Candidates Detected in Breakthrough Physics Experiment At long last, researchers have glimpsed ghostly particles produced by CERN's Large Hadron Collider By Chelsea Gohd,SPACE.com

Computing What is 'The Cloud' and How Does it Pervade Our Lives? It governs a lot of your digital life these days, but the story of where it first materialized is likely deeper than you know.  By Michael Tabb,Jeffery DelViscio,Andrea Gawrylewski

Public Health Why COVID Deaths Have Surpassed AIDS Deaths in the U.S. On World AIDS Day, why global COVID deaths are a fraction of global AIDS deaths By Steven W. Thrasher

Climate Change Arctic Snow Is Shifting to Rain As Temperatures Rise The change in precipitation may happen faster than scientists previously predicted By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

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FROM THE ARCHIVE 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 | October 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Your children deserve to be protected against this virus as much as adults do...The more people we get vaccinated, the better off we'll be." Sallie Permar, chair of the pediatrics department at Weill Cornell Medicine

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