The Number of Children Orphaned by COVID Keeps Rising

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September 07, 2022

Mental Health The Number of Children Orphaned by COVID Keeps Rising HIV has taught us how to care for children who have lost a parent, but more countries need to step up By Juliette Unwin

Education Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade By Katie Worth

Artificial Intelligence To Clear Deadly Land Mines, Science Turns to Drones and Machine Learning In a field in Oklahoma, researchers are using new technology to spot deadly munitions built to maim and kill By Andrew Robinson,Dominic Smith

Public Health Why So Few Young Kids Are Vaccinated against COVID--And How to Change That Only a fraction of young children in the U.S. are vaccinated against COVID. Parents cite concerns about safety and a lack of worry about the disease itself By Tanya Lewis

Animals These Tiny Pollinators Can Travel Surprisingly Huge Distances It turns out that hoverflies may fly hundreds or even thousands of miles—all to help pollinate our flowers and vegetables. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:06

Materials Science Poem: 'Aerogel: A Quintain' Science in meter and verse By Christopher Norris

Extraterrestrial Life SETI Pioneer Frank Drake Leaves a Legacy of Searching for Voices in the Void Remembering Frank Drake, who led science in listening for an extraterrestrial "whisper we can't quite hear" By Lee Billings

Climate Change A Climate-Fueled Heat Wave Tests California's Power Grid Officials are urging California residents to curtail their energy use as the state faces this summer's highest chance of outages during record-breaking temperatures By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

Cancer Most People at Risk for Lung Cancer Never Get Screened: Here's How to Fix That U.S. lung cancer screening guidelines miss people who have never smoked, as well as many women and Black people. Expanding outreach and eligibility could help By Simar Bajaj

Climate Change Why Are Pakistan's Floods So Extreme This Year? One third of the country is underwater following an intense heat wave and a long monsoon that has dumped a record amount of rain By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

FROM THE STORE Existence and Other Questions: Selected Works of John Horgan Does free will exist? Is the Schrödinger Equation True? How does matter make a mind? In his Scientific American column, John Horgan takes a scientific approach to exploring mysteries such as these, and in this eBook, we collect some of his most thought-provoking work on consciousness, quantum mechanics, the science of psychedelic drugs and more.

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