This Tick Can Make You Allergic to Meat, and It's Spreading

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May 23, 2022

Epidemiology This Tick Can Make You Allergic to Meat, and It's Spreading Work on genetically modified pigs might provide a solution to the strange illness By Sara Goudarzi

Climate Change California Faces Summer Blackouts from Climate Extremes Energy planners are working to increase the grid's reliability to keep the power on during droughts, wildfires and heat waves By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

Anthropology This Amazonian Indigenous Group Has Lessons in Sustainable Living for All of Us The Apiwtxa community has designed a way to live with, rather than off, nature By Carolina Schneider Comandulli,Apiwtxa Association

Epidemiology What is Monkeypox, the Virus Infecting People in the U.S. and Europe? A microbiologist explains what is known about this smallpox cousin By Rodney E. Rohde,The Conversation US

Public Health The U.S. Needs Its Local Public Health Officials Back, Stat COVID misinformation has led to many top scientists leaving their public positions, putting health policy in the hands of people with limited expertise By Jared DeCoste

Climate Change Climate-Fueled Heat Waves Will Hamper Western Hydropower Earlier snowmelt can leave less water available to generate power during the height of summer By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Quantum Physics Physicists Find a Shortcut to Seeing an Elusive Quantum Glow Once considered practically unseeable, a phenomenon called the Unruh effect might soon be revealed in laboratory experiments By Joanna Thompson

Space Exploration NASA Hails Starliner Launch Success Despite Thruster Glitch The Starliner team is confident the malfunctions won't prevent the spacecraft from completing its mission By SPACE.com,Josh Dinner

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 6

FROM THE ARCHIVE Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases Are on the Rise--But Why? The complex interplay of tick ecology, land use and climate may be enabling the spread of the pathogens the arachnids carry By Ula Chrobak,Knowable Magazine | February 2022

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