Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID

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June 17, 2022

Health Care Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone, a new study says By Rachel Nuwer

Health Care Utah Kept Them from Learning about Consent, So These Teens Found a Place to Have 'the Talk' Together A group of teenagers in rural Utah are training to become sex educators so that they can teach their peers what they do not learn in the classroom By Jesse Ryan

Public Health Bad COVID Public Health Messaging Is Blocking Our Path To A "New Normal" But smarter communications from health agencies can improve the road ahead By Thoai D. Ngo

Neuroscience Why You Can't Remember Being Born: A Look at 'Infantile Amnesia' Infants can form memories, just not the kind that recalls specific experiences By Vanessa LoBue,The Conversation US

Archaeology Ancient Women's Teeth Reveal Origins of 14th-Century Black Death A medieval cemetery yields DNA evidence of the deadly pandemic bacterium's Central Asian ancestor By Jen Pinkowski

Vaccines COVID Vaccines for Kids Younger Than Five Get Green Light from Regulators An advisory committee voted unanimously to recommend authorizing the Moderna and Pfizer shots for the youngest children By Tanya Lewis

Quantum Physics Physicists Link Two Time Crystals in Seemingly Impossible Experiment A new demonstration of these exotic constructs could help bridge classical and quantum physics By Paul Sutter,LiveScience

Mental Health When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight? The psychiatric syndrome called derealization raises profound moral and philosophical questions By John Horgan

Pollution Pesticides Are Spreading Toxic 'Forever Chemicals,' Scientists Warn Common chemicals sprayed on many crops each year are cloaked in bureaucratic uncertainties By Meg Wilcox

Particle Physics What Are Neutrinos, and How Can We Measure Their Mass?  The weirdest subatomic particles require enormous equipment to study By Joanna Thompson

Evolution Heated Debate Persists over the Origins of Complex Cells Were mitochondria a driving evolutionary force or just a late addition? By Viviane Callier,Knowable Magazine

Renewable Energy Engineers Look to River and Ocean Currents for Clean Energy The Department of Energy is helping to fund 11 projects that are designed to harness the power of moving water By John Fialka,E&E News

FROM THE STORE The Age of Humans Humans have accomplished a great deal in our relatively short history - and have left our mark on Earth in the process. In this eBook, we examine the story of us: how we got here, the world we've built and how we'll need to continue to adapt if we are to manage our impact on the planet and build a better future. *Editor's Note: This Collector's Edition was published as The Age of Humans. The eBook adaptation contains all of the articles, but some of the artwork has been removed to optimize viewing on tablet devices.

BRING SCIENCE HOME Test "Weather" You Can Make Your Own Cloud! What's in a cloud? You can make your own and find out with this "super-cool" activity!  Credit: George Retseck Have you ever imagined what it might be like inside of a cloud? Did you know that if you were in one, you would get soaking wet? There are many different types of clouds, but one thing they have in common is that they're all made of water (or ice). But how do clouds form, and how is it possible that water can float above us in the air? In this activity you'll make your own cloud in a jar and get to test the conditions that are required to make a cloud form!

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