We Can't Let Monkeypox Turn into a Repeat of COVID

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June 23, 2022

Epidemiology We Can't Let Monkeypox Turn into a Repeat of COVID Will governments apply lessons learned from COVID to this latest viral outbreak? By Muhammad Jawad Noon

Politics Research on Gun Violence Has Been Thwarted. It's Now More Urgent than Ever We need to make firearms safer, and to do that, we need more robust research funding By Asheley Van Ness,Evan Mintz

Natural Disasters Prescribed Burns Are More Dangerous Because of Climate Change But the technique must remain in the firefighting toolbox, a new U.S. Forest Service report says By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Epidemiology Poliovirus Detected in London Sewage, UK Officials Warn The detected strain can sometimes cause severe disease in people who are not vaccinated against polio By Nicoletta Lanese,LiveScience

Planetary Science Controversy Grows Over whether Mars Samples Endanger Earth Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world's biosphere  By Leonard David

Animals Sequencing Cat Genomes Could Help Breed Healthier Kitties A study of more than 11,000 felines reveals the benefits of genetic testing before breeding By Fionna M. D. Samuels

Space Exploration Gaia's Multibillion-Star Map of the Milky Way Keeps Getting Better The latest data release from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission is sparking a frenzy of exciting new astrophysics research By Sasha Warren

Climate Change Climate Change Is Turning More of Central Asia into Desert The rapid expansion will have significant impacts on ecosystems and the people and animals who rely on them By Giorgia Guglielmi,Nature magazine

Policy Columbine Should Have Been an Isolated Event: It Was Just a Beginning An emergency medicine physician remembers witnessing the carnage of more than one mass shooting By Christopher Colwell

Climate Change Seville Launches World's First Program to Name and Rank Heat Waves The launch comes after the hottest first two weeks of June ever recorded in Spain By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Medicine Venomous Snail Unlocks New Diabetes Drugs A cone snail's poison helps to form a fast-acting insulin By Anna Rogers

FROM THE STORE Extraterrestrials and the Search for Life Do aliens exist? The enduring mystery of whether we're alone in the universe is a question that continues to drive scientific study into groundbreaking directions. This collection examines the latest thinking in the search for life, from discussing why we haven't found evidence of aliens so far to determining where and how to conduct the search to opening up the possibilities for what otherworldly life could truly look like.

FROM THE ARCHIVE Monkeypox Outbreaks: 4 Key Questions Scientists Have Researchers are racing to understand the latest monkeypox outbreaks—from their origins to whether they can be contained By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine | June 2022

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