The Risk of Vaccinated COVID Transmission Is Not Low

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December 17, 2021

Vaccines The Risk of Vaccinated COVID Transmission Is Not Low After my son got sick, I dived into the data, and it turns out vaccinated people can and do spread COVID By Jennifer Frazer

Evolution New Clues about the Origins of Biological Intelligence A common solution is emerging in two different fields: developmental biology and neuroscience By Rafael Yuste,Michael Levin

Weather Quad-State Tornado May Be Longest-Lasting Ever Why some tornadoes are able to travel so far and persist so long By Stephanie Pappas

Neuroscience People Love the Brain for the Wrong Reasons Our fascination with brain-based explanations of psychology arises from intuitive ideas about the separation of mind and body—ideas unsupported by science By Iris Berent

Astrophysics NASA Launches IXPE, a New X-ray Space Telescope The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer will probe the physics behind black holes, neutron stars and other dynamic cosmic objects By Amy Thompson,SPACE.com

Conservation Wildfires Are Putting Giant Sequoias at Existential Risk The future of these guardians of the forest, some thousands of years old, is not assured By Dominic Smith,Andrew Robinson

Mental Health COVID Is Driving a Children's Mental Health Emergency Deaths of parents and other terrible experiences have hurt hundreds of thousands, so new initiatives are trying to help families in pain By Julia Hotz

Politics Dr. Oz Shouldn't Be a Senator--or a Doctor His brand of misinformation has already tarnished medicine. In the halls of Congress, he’d do much worse By Timothy Caulfield

Privacy The Log4J Software Flaw Is 'Christmas Come Early' for Cybercriminals A cybersecurity expert explains how the widely used logging software is already making us more vulnerable By Sophie Bushwick

Astronomy James Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed to Christmas Eve--or Later A communications glitch between the observatory and its launch vehicle forced the delay, NASA officials say By Hanneke Weitering,SPACE.com

Public Health Rapid COVID Tests Could Help Curb Infections--Especially During the Holidays An expert answers questions about when and how to use the tests By Nathaniel Hafer,The Conversation US

Astrophysics NASA Spacecraft 'Touches' the Sun for the First Time Ever The Parker Solar Probe has passed through a boundary and into the Sun’s atmosphere, gathering data that will help scientists better understand stars By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

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BRING SCIENCE HOME Spinning Symmetry with Pinwheels Why do wind turbines and airplane propellers look the way they do? The secret is in the symmetry. Learn why engineers design them this way with this fun, hands-on activity. Give it a whirl!  Credit: George Retseck Have you ever played with a toy pinwheel—or seen larger real-life versions, such as a windmill or wind turbine? Have you wondered why they look the way they do—with multiple blades, arranged symmetrically? Why can't they get away with just one blade? Or blades of different shapes and sizes? Try this fun project to find out!

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