Monkeypox Explained: Transmission, Symptoms, Vaccines and Treatment

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August 17, 2022

Public Health Monkeypox Explained: Transmission, Symptoms, Vaccines and Treatment Frequently asked questions about how monkeypox spreads, who's most at risk, and what vaccines and treatments are available By Tanya Lewis

Public Health Nuclear War Could Spark Global Famine Smoke from burning cities would engulf Earth after a nuclear war, causing worldwide crop failures and starvation, models show By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Climate Change AI Can Help Indigenous People Protect Biodiversity Loss of wild species has reached a crisis level.  Artificial intelligence can help, but only if Indigenous partners have secure land rights By Wai Chee Dimock

Policy Biden Signs Historic Climate Bill as Scientists Applaud Climate scientists are excited for the billions of dollars the Inflation Reduction Act will pour into fighting climate change but urge further action By Gayathri Vaidyanathan,Nature magazine

Vaccines Monkeypox Update and Homing in on Long COVID: COVID, Quickly, Episode 36 On this episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we take a few minutes to talk about the other virus making headlines—and then return to long COVID. By Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Jeffery DelViscio,Tulika Bose | 10:25

Black Holes What Is the Black Hole Information Paradox? A Primer Black holes, wormholes, entanglement, Einstein, mysterious islands and new science that sees how the inside of a black hole is secretly on the outside. By Jason Drakeford,Clara Moskowitz,Jeffery DelViscio,Sunya Bhutta

Climate Change What Megafires Can Teach Us about California Megafloods Catastrophic megafloods formerly happened about once every 100 to 200 years in California, but climate change has increased those odds By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Planetary Science NASA's UFO Study Isn't Really Looking for Space Aliens A new investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena could have bigger impacts on atmospheric science than on astrobiology By Sarah Scoles

Climate Change Here's How Some Species Will Survive Climate Change Hybridization isn't as rare as you think, and it's a tactic some animals can use to weather global warming By Daniel Rubinoff

Animals Fantastic Sea Creatures Photographed Up Close and Personal Sea angels, telescope fish and blanket octopuses can be real monsters By Joanna Thompson

Climate Change 'Gravity Waves' Offer Hope to Coral in a Warming Ocean New research points to underwater waves that create cooler ocean areas in which coral can survive global warming By John Fialka,E&E News

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