COVID Virus May Tunnel through Nanotubes from Nose to Brain

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July 20, 2022

Public Health COVID Virus May Tunnel through Nanotubes from Nose to Brain Nanotubes may provide a cunning answer to the mystery of how the virus that causes COVID infects neurons and produces long-lasting neurological symptoms By Stephanie Pappas

Climate Change U.K. Shatters Heat Record Three Times in a Matter of Hours Extreme heat events such as the record-setting conditions in Europe are growing more frequent and more intense as the climate warms By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Epidemiology Why is Monkeypox Evolving So Fast? The virus circulating in the current outbreak has mutated 50 times in the past four years By Sara Reardon

Oceans The Mystery of Milky Seas Is Finally Being Solved Scientists are uncovering more about an eerie phenomenon that has bewildered seafarers for centuries By Michelle Nijhuis

Medicine The Hunt for Drugs for Mild COVID People who are unlikely to develop severe COVID-19 have no widely approved medications to ease the illness By Saima May Sidik,Nature magazine

Animals New Evidence Emerges in Mystery of When Mammals Became Warm-Blooded Fossil animals' inner ear structures offer clues on when endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, evolved By Riley Black

Reproduction Police Who Tear Gas Abortion-Rights Protesters Could Induce Abortion Tear gas is widely used by law enforcement, even though it may cause spontaneous abortion By Matthew R. Francis

Oceans Dive into a Vanishing Invisible Forest to See What Climate Has Changed Our kelp forests are largely unobserved, but now they are vanishing. To understand why, scientists dive underwater and look down from space. Their research reveals a complex system at risk of collapse. By Dominic Smith,Andrew Robinson

Climate Change Risk of Dangerous Heat Exposure Is Growing Quickly in Cities Population growth, climate change and the urban heat island effect are combining to put more people at risk By Andrea Thompson

Sleep It Goes by the Name 'Bedtime Procrastination' and You Can Probably Guess What It Is Putting off sleep can have unfortunate consequences By Janosch Deeg

Psychology What Keeps a Crowd from Becoming a Mob? Amid COVID, studies in Denmark suggest that crowds do not always engage in bad behavior—and that mass-gatherings sometimes offer meaningful connection By Séamus A. Power,Thomas A. Morton

Dinosaurs These Dinosaurs Had a Complicated Air Conditioner in Their Skull Cooling 5,000-pound, armor-plated giants was no small feat. By Aaron Martin

FROM THE STORE Revolutions in Science Normally science proceeds in incremental steps, but sometimes a discovery is so profound that it causes a paradigm shift. This eBook is a collection of articles about those kinds of advances, including revolutionary discoveries about the origin of life, theories of learning, formation of the solar system and more. *Editor's Note: Revolutions in Science was originally published as a Collector's Edition. The eBook adaptation contains all of the articles, but some of the artwork has been removed to optimize viewing on mobile devices.

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