Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic

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February 09, 2024

Public Health Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic "We're still in a pandemic," says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization By Meghan Bartels

Astronomy Why Does a Solar Eclipse Move West to East? Here's why the path of a solar eclipse travels in the opposite direction of that of the sun By Stephanie Pappas

Mathematics How String Theory Solved Math's Monstrous Moonshine Problem A concept from theoretical physics helped confirm the strange connection between two completely different areas of mathematics By Manon Bischoff

Climate Change Trump Allies Plan to Gut Climate Research if He Is Reelected Dozens of conservative organizations have banded together to provide Trump a road map—known as Project 2025—to boost fossil fuels and limit government climate science By Scott Waldman,E&E News

Defense The Government's Former UFO Hunter Found Something More Concerning than Aliens Sean Kirkpatrick looked into the skies and deep into government archives for extraterrestrials. What he found is, to him, more concerning than little green men. By Daniel Vergano,Jeffery DelViscio | 13:21

Water As Israel Floods Gaza's Tunnels with Seawater, Scientists Worry about Aquifer Contamination The Israel Defense Forces has confirmed it is dumping seawater into the web of tunnels beneath Gaza, which scientists say may contaminate the aquifer that supplies most of Gaza's water By Josie Glausiusz,Nature magazine

Planetary Science Jupiter's Supervolcanic Moon Io Dazzles in Photos from NASA's Close Flybys During close flybys of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured stunning "bonus science" about the nightmarish world By Meghan Bartels

Materials Science Why Is Superconductivity Research Plagued by Controversy? A materials scientist unravels the hype around research on high-temperature superconductor research like LK-99 By Dan Falk,Undark

Archaeology AI Unravels Ancient Roman Scroll Charred By Volcano AI helps decipher the text of a 2,000-year-old scroll burned at Pompeii By Jo Marchant,Nature magazine

Sexuality Is Bisexuality Genetic? It's More Complex Than Some Studies Imply The controversy over a recent paper on human bisexual behavior emphasizes how important it is not to overinterpret genetic studies of sexuality—and how easy it is to do so By Lauren Leffer

Climate Change New NASA Earth Science Mission Could Change the Way We See Our Planet NASA's PACE mission aims to increase our understanding of Earth's carbon cycle, pollution particles and ocean plankton By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Animals A Dog Breed's Size and Face Shape Might Predict How Long It Lives Traits such as face shape, size and sex help predict a dog breed's life span By Jack Tamisiea

BRING SCIENCE HOME Find the Candy Rainbow with Chemistry Credit: George Retseck Here is a fun project you can try with leftover candy you have. You will make some amazing art using nothing but colored candy and hot water—and a little bit of science. Save some of your candy and get started!

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