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April 22, 2022

Epidemiology How to Make Smart COVID Risk-Benefit Decisions Scientific American asks experts in medicine, risk assessment and other fields how to balance the risks of COVID with the benefits of visiting public indoor spaces By Devabhaktuni Srikrishna

Psychology A New Dimension to a Meaningful Life Studies suggest that appreciating beauty in the everyday may be just as powerful as a sense of overarching purpose By Joshua Hicks,Frank Martela

Animals Social Animals Seek Power in Surprisingly Complex Ways It’s not just physical combat—animals have a host of strategies for building clout By Lee Alan Dugatkin

SPONSOR CONTENT PROVIDED BY MACMILLAN AUDIO Happy Earth Day! In this audiobook collection, renowned environmentalists offer their advice and insight into the natural world.

Renewable Energy In a First, Wind Generation Tops Coal and Nuclear Power for a Day The milestone showed both how far renewable energy has come and the lengths the country must go to reach President Joe Biden’s climate goals By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Epidemiology New Cases of Childhood Diabetes Rose during the Pandemic It isn’t clear why, but researchers are investigating a possible COVID link By Carolyn Barber

Cosmology Astronomers Gear Up to Grapple with the High-Tension Cosmos A debate over conflicting measurements of key cosmological properties is set to shape the next decade of astronomy and astrophysics By Anil Ananthaswamy

Epidemiology Are New Omicron Subvariants a Threat? How Scientists are Keeping Watch In South Africa, a network of researchers are studying whether new lineages BA.4 and BA.5 escape immunity from COVID-19 vaccines and prior infections By Amy Maxmen,Nature magazine

Ecology New Vaccine Could Save Rabbits from Fatal Disease Veterinarians and rabbit owners are racing to protect bunnies as a hemorrhagic disease spreads By Tatum McConnell

Public Health Venturing Back to the Office and the Benefits of Hybrid Immunity: COVID Quickly, Episode 28 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 Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Tulika Bose | 06:52

Climate Change Insects Are Dying Off Because of Climate Change and Farming Tropical regions show the greatest risk for insect declines By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Anthropology Decades of Photos Reveal Amazon Cultures Under Threat Photographer Sebastião Salgado has spent more than two decades documenting the complex lives of Indigenous Amazonian people as they stand strong in the face of unrelenting colonial forces By Joanna Thompson

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 5

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