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January 21, 2022

Health Care These Are the Latest COVID Treatments But shortages mean that new antivirals and other drugs may be hard to come by By Esther Landhuis

Health Care Billionaires Bankroll Cell Rejuvenation Tech as the Latest Gambit to Slow Aging Startups bet that carefully controlled cell reprogramming may lead to age reversal, but hurdles remain By Michael Eisenstein,Nature Biotechnology

Climate Change To Fully Mitigate Climate Change, We Need to Curb Methane Emissions The Build Back Better legislation, now in the Senate, would include programs to reduce methane output By Sean Casten

Climate Change Discarded 1990s Energy Invention Makes a Comeback Once deemed too expensive, triple-pane windows could help reduce emissions by improving energy efficiency By John Fialka,E&E News

Astronomy SpaceX's Starlink Satellites Leave Streaks in Asteroid-Hunting Telescope's Images Despite efforts to reduce light pollution from the satellites, their disruptions of astronomical observations are increasing at an alarming pace By Tereza Pultarova,SPACE.com

Climate Change Greenland Could Melt for Millennia If Warming Stopped Today But any action to curb climate change today will reduce the speed of future ice loss By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Natural Disasters Ash Blanketing Tonga after Volcano Eruption Creates Health Concerns Short exposure should not be too harmful, but residents should take precautions where they can By Andrea Thompson

Health Care Pig Kidneys Transplanted to Human in Milestone Experiment Experts predict that such nonhuman-to-human "xenotransplants" may become a viable option within the next decade By Joanna Thompson

Vaccines COVID Quickly, Episode 21: Colds Build COVID Immunity, and the Omicron Vaccine Delay Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here. By Josh Fischman,Jeffery DelViscio | 07:14

Psychology Borderline Personality Disorder May Be Rooted in Trauma A focus on the traumatic origins of an often stigmatized psychiatric diagnosis is inspiring new treatments By Diana Kwon

Public Health Latest COVID Surge Pushes Parents to Next-Level Stress The new normal this winter is longer drives for kids' tests, multiday waits for results, drug-store restock alerts and social media tips By Melinda Wenner Moyer

Natural Disasters Tonga Volcano Eruption Created Puzzling Ripples in Earth's Atmosphere Powerful waves ringing through the atmosphere after the eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai are unlike anything seen before By David Adam,Nature magazine

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FROM THE ARCHIVE 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 | December 2021

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