What One Million COVID Dead Mean for the U.S.'s Future

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March 29, 2022

Epidemiology What One Million COVID Dead Mean for the U.S.'s Future The country is about to reach an unthinkably grim milestone. Nearly 200,000 children have lost parents, many more elderly have been killed, and family well-being has been ripped apart By Melody Schreiber

Climate Change What to Know about Antarctica's Conger Ice Shelf Collapse Though this particular collapse is not a major concern, events like it are becoming more common By Hilmar Gudmundsson,Adrian Jenkins,Bertie Miles,The Conversation US

Epidemiology How the War in Ukraine Is Causing Indirect Deaths Crowded shelters and destroyed health care facilities will likely exacerbate COVID, TB and other diseases By Tanya Lewis

Computing 'Momentum Computing' Pushes Technology's Thermodynamic Limits Overheating is a major problem for today's computers, but those of tomorrow might stay cool by circumventing a canonical boundary on information processing By Philip Ball

Public Health COVID Revealed the Fragility of American Public Health What happens when a deadly virus hits a vulnerable society By Wendy E. Parmet

Computing Russian Misinformation Seeks to Confound, Not Convince Rather than take a side, these campaigns create decision paralysis that leads to inaction By David Robert Grimes

Medicine Can Drugs Reduce the Risk of Long COVID? What Scientists Know So Far Researchers are trying to establish whether existing COVID-19 vaccines and treatments can prevent lasting symptoms By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Psychology To Fight Bias, Consider Highlighting Your Race or Gender When networking, women and people in racial and ethnic minority groups can benefit from calling out their identity By Erika Kirgios,Aneesh Rai,Edward Chang,Katy Milkman

Sports The 'Hot Hand' Is a Real Basketball Phenomenon, but It Is Rare A statistical analysis finds evidence for shooting streaks in real game situations By Konstantinos Pelechrinis,Wayne Winston,The Conversation US

Public Health New COVID Spit Tests May Be More Accurate and Easier Than Nasal Swabs Saliva PCR tests may detect disease earlier in the course of an infection By Anthony Warmack

Biotech This Mushroom Leather Is Being Made into Hermès Handbags A bioreactor-made material is being marketed as an animal-friendly leather alternative that also aims to help save the planet By Emily Waltz,Nature Biotechnology

Anthropology Anthropology Association Apologizes to Native Americans for the Field's Legacy of Harm For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history By Rachel Parsons

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Space & Physics, Volume 5, Issue 2

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FROM THE ARCHIVE There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID Mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-COVID times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll By Steven W. Thrasher | February 2022

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We will see the rippling effects of the pandemic on our society and the way it impacts individuals for generations." Nyesha Black, director of demographic research at the University of Alabama

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