What to Tell Kids about Ukraine: Recommendations from a Psychologist

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March 02, 2022

Psychology What to Tell Kids about Ukraine: Recommendations from a Psychologist Children are worried by Russia's attack and need explanations about what is going on, a family counselor says By Stella Marie Hombach

Medicine Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise Instructing our cells to make specific proteins could control influenza, autoimmune diseases, even cancer By Drew Weissman

Ethics The Manhattan Project Shows Scientists' Moral and Ethical Responsibilities As more of physics research is funded by the military, it is important to learn the full history of our past By George Iskander

Climate Change What Biden Said--and Didn't Say--on Climate During the State of the Union After searching for a climate win during the first year of his presidency, Biden used his speech to focus on other crises By Adam Aton,Scott Waldman,E&E News

Epidemiology When Should COVID School Restrictions Lift? Intense Debates Persist Opinion among physicians and scientists still ranges widely on how quickly to proceed By Ingrid Wickelgren

Policy Abortion Pills Are Very Safe and Effective, yet Government Rules Still Hinder Access If the U.S. Supreme Court fails to uphold abortion rights this spring, more restrictions are likely By Claudia Wallis

Space Exploration Russia's Invasion of Ukraine May Delay Europe's ExoMars Rover Launch The Rosalind Franklin rover was set to embark for Mars later this year, but the deteriorating relationship between Europe and Russia now makes that very unlikely By Tereza Pultarova,SPACE.com

Inequality COVID Has Made Global Inequality Much Worse The poor, no matter where they live, will suffer the greatest lasting toll By Joseph E. Stiglitz

Climate Change Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons from Bangladesh The latest IPCC report makes it clear that countries rich and poor have to forcefully adapt to a warming world By Saleemul Huq

Mathematics Mathematicians Protest Russia Hosting Major Conference For years, concerned researchers have been calling for a boycott of the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians By Rachel Crowell

Biotech Artificial Neuron Snaps a Venus Flytrap Shut Researchers say that such bio-integrated systems could be the future of prosthetics By Joanna Thompson

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "The worst thing is when children are afraid, feel threatened, maybe even experience violence and are left alone with it--or if maybe it's not even talked about. If that's the case, the psyche is easily damaged." Torsten Andersohn, psychologist and family counselor

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