Why COVID Deaths Have Surpassed AIDS Deaths in the U.S.

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December 01, 2021

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

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

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

Robotics To Better Persuade a Human, a Robot Should Use This Trick A new study finds that, for robots, overlords are less persuasive than peers. By Karen Hopkin | 12:00

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

Vaccines Omicron Is Here: A Lack of COVID Vaccines Is Partly Why Global players need to get more vaccines to African nations, and convince more people to take them By Michael Head

Renewable Energy Chip Shortage Threatens Biden's Electric Vehicle Plans, Commerce Secretary Says The administration hopes to gain support for a bill to domestic semiconductor manufacturing By David Ferris,E&E News

Reproduction A Timeline of How Abortion Laws Could Affect Pregnancy Decisions If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in a Mississippi abortion case, numerous state laws will interfere with key biological and social decisions during pregnancy By Sara Reardon

Neuroscience How Brains Seamlessly Switch Between Languages Bilingual people engage the same brain region that monolingual individuals use to put together words—even when combining different languages By Daisy Yuhas

Conservation To Conserve More Species, Act while Their Numbers Are High On Remembrance Day for Lost Species, mourn what's lost, but also be grateful for the species we still have By Michelle Nijhuis

Basic Chemistry Tiny Vibrating Bubbles Could Make Mining More Sustainable An updated bubbling process allows for more efficient mineral separation By Tess Joosse

Evolution Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse  By Henry Gee

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FROM THE ARCHIVE World AIDS Day Is a Grim Reminder That We Have Many Pandemics Going On The coronavirus is amplifying racial, class and other disparities, just as HIV has been doing for decades By Steven W. Thrasher | December 2020

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