Discovery of New HIV Variant Sends Warning for COVID Pandemic

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February 17, 2022

Public Health Discovery of New HIV Variant Sends Warning for COVID Pandemic Infectious disease expert William A. Haseltine cautions that a coronavirus variant could emerge with the transmissibility of Omicron and the deadliness of the original SARS By Marla Broadfoot

Policy COVID's Uneven Toll Captured in Data Visualizing ongoing stories of loss, adaptation and inequality By Amanda Montañez,Jen Christiansen,Sabine Devins,Mariana Surillo,Ashley P. Taylor

Space Exploration NASA Eyes Electric Car Tech for Future Moon Rovers Space agencies are partnering with car manufacturers to custom build new rovers—or retrofit commercial vehicles—for future missions to the moon and Mars By Maddie Bender

Planetary Science What We Learned from the Perseverance Rover's First Year on Mars Despite some unexpected challenges, team members are setting lofty goals for the rover in 2022 By Nadia Drake

Pharmaceuticals Nasal Spray COVID Preventives Are Finally in Development Different methods of drug delivery give us more tools to fight disease By Megha Satyanarayana

Climate Change Noise Pollution, Wildfires Top U.N. Report on Emerging Environmental Threats Climate-driven mismatches in the life cycles of plants and animals was also cited as a major concern By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Public Health COVID Dominated Their Science Lives: Here's What Four Experts Learned over Two Years We've all lived through the pandemic, but these scientific experts lived inside it—fighting nearly every day to understand the novel coronavirus, predict its spread, decode its dangers and fight it on the front lines of care. By Jeffery DelViscio

Fossil Fuels Professional Sports Leagues Need to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint Simple changes that put the environment over ratings could help both players and franchises be more sustainable By Seth Wynes

Climate Change Winter Olympic Sites Are Melting Away because of Climate Crisis As greenhouse gas emissions rise, more venues will face conditions that professional athletes consider unfair or unsafe By Andrea Thompson

Space Exploration Moon's Hidden Depths Uncovered with New Algorithm The permanently shadowed regions at the lunar poles might contain thick ice reservoirs By Connie Chang

Health Care COVID Long Haulers Are Calling Attention to Chronic Illnesses But society is not prepared for the growing crisis of long COVID By Meghan O'Rourke

Fossil Fuels EPA Is Preparing to Reinstate California's Authority to Set More Stringent Car Emissions Rules The move would reverberate around the country because more than a dozen other states follow California's regulations By Arianna Skibell,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 3

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FROM THE ARCHIVE First New HIV Strain in 19 Years Identified The surveillance of viral changes persists to keep the blood supply safe By Karen Weintraub | November 2019

QUOTE OF THE DAY "For SARS-CoV-2, the virus depends for its existence on reinfecting people who have been infected the year before. We are fighting millions of years of evolution of an organism that knows how to fool our immune system and get into us again and again." William A. Haseltine, infectious disease researcher

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