How Mammals Conquered the World after the Asteroid Apocalypse

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May 19, 2022

Paleontology How Mammals Conquered the World after the Asteroid Apocalypse They scurried in the shadows of dinosaurs for millions of years until a killer space rock created a new world of evolutionary opportunity By Steve Brusatte

Medicine The Weight of Stigma: Heavier Patients Confront the Burden of Bias Research shows that anti-fat bias lowers the quality of care for higher-weight patients. Here is one patient's story. By Kelso Harper

Medicine A Deluge of New Drugs for COVID Two years into the pandemic, the COVID-19 drugs pipeline is primed to pump out novel treatments—and fresh uses for familiar therapies. By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Space Exploration Will NASA Save Europe's Beleaguered Mars Rover? Russia's invasion of Ukraine ended hopes of launching the ExoMars rover in 2022. Now the mission may never lift off at all By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Animals Dolphins Rub against Mucus-Oozing Corals to Soothe Skin This 'gorgoning' releases antibacterial compounds and other substances that dolphins could be using to self-medicate By Jack Tamisiea

Public Health What Does 'Protection' against COVID Really Mean? To answer that question, expanded testing is needed that can determine levels of T immune cells By Esther Landhuis

Climate Change If Sea Ice Melts in the Arctic, Do Trees Burn in California? A new study links sea ice decline with increasing wildfire weather in the Western United States. By Emily Schwing | 05:24

Renewable Energy Europe's Historic Clean Energy Plan Faces a Mining Problem Securing the needed minerals and metals could be a stumbling block to reaching its ambitious goals By Sara Schonhardt

Medicine Mars Mission Could Bring Health Benefits on Earth Flying to space takes its toll on the human body, and this has spurred new research on radiation and microgravity, as well as advances in remote medicine and telehealth, all of which have potential benefits for people on Earth By Marion Renault,Nature Medicine

Inequality People Who Are Making Health Care More Fair Four innovators are finding new solutions for the problem of injustice By Julia Hotz

Public Health Tuberculosis Is the Oldest Pandemic, and Poverty Makes It Continue Tuberculosis is preventable and curable, yet it afflicts one quarter of the world's population—mostly because of poverty By Sofia Moutinho

Oceans Coral Reefs Are Struggling, but There Is Some Good News Graphics show how reefs around the globe are faring By Katie Peek

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 6

FROM THE ARCHIVE The Ascent of Mammals Recent fossil discoveries reveal that evolution began laying the groundwork for their rise to world domination long before the dinosaur-killing asteroid cleared the playing field By Stephen Brusatte,Zhe-Xi Luo | June 2016

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