People with Long COVID May Still Have Spike Proteins in Their Blood

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July 21, 2022

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Epidemiology People with Long COVID May Still Have Spike Proteins in Their Blood Possible biomarker for long COVID suggests some people with the condition never fully cleared the virus By Sasha Warren

Discoveries from the Deep Advances in robotics, sensing and genomics are accelerating findings of sophisticated life throughout the ocean depths

Policy Biden Vows to Take More White House Action on Climate Change President Joe Biden announced plans to expand offshore wind development and climate resilience funding for communities By Scott Waldman,E&E News

Astronomy Behold, Some Hidden Gems from JWST's First Images Astronomers and the public alike are delighting in the glittering depths of the universe revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope By Fionna M. D. Samuels

Oceans What Does It Look Like when an Ecosystem Collapses? Kelp Can Show Us After a mass algal die-off in the Pacific, researchers used satellites, undergrads, artificial intelligence and people wading in tide pools figure out what was lost—and how it might come back By Andrew Robinson

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

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

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

Oceans Eerie Photo Proves the Existence of Milky Seas--A First A night photograph taken from a sailboat near the island of Java validates a satellite image of a giant, glowing "milky sea" By Michelle Nijhuis

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

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

Pollution The Environmental Disasters Now Threatening Ukraine Ukraine's former environment minister explains the Russian invasion's dangerous impact on water and nuclear safety By Renee Hickman

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

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FROM THE ARCHIVE COVID Long Haulers Are Calling Attention to Chronic Illnesses But society is not prepared for the growing crisis of long COVID By Meghan O'Rourke | March 2022

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