Blood Clots Are Mysteriously Tied to Many Coronavirus Problems

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May 11, 2020

Dear Reader, By 2050, about one-third of the U.S. could experience extreme weather events annually if population and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, according to new research. Scientists say that's more than double the 47 million Americans who currently experience extreme heat and cold, prolonged droughts, and intensifying floods. Next in today's roundup, a new technique to prevent planes from being hit by lightning might seem counterintuitive. Recent tests show that adding an electrical charge to the outside of the aircraft is the best way to reduce the chance of a strike. And lastly, blood clots are a frequent, and mysterious, complication of COVID-19. Read our main story to learn what researchers are starting to untangle.

Sunya Bhutta, Senior Editor, Audience Engagement @sunyaaa

Public Health Blood Clots Are Mysteriously Tied to Many Coronavirus Problems Research begins to pick apart the mechanisms behind a deadly COVID-19 complication By Cassandra Willyard,Nature magazine

Engineering Pumping Charged Particles onto Airplane Surfaces Could Reduce Lightning Strikes   Tests reveal that an imbalance of charge buildup can trigger airplane lightning  By Mark Fischetti

Climate Millions More Americans Will Face Climate Disasters with Warming The population exposed to one or more extreme weather events each year could more than double by mid-century By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Natural Disasters Why Puerto Rico's Tectonic Setting Makes Earthquakes Inevitable Puerto Rico's seismic sequence is entering its fifth month and is still generating large earthquakes. Here's the tectonic story By Dana Hunter

Behavior & Society How Behavioral Science Can Help Contain the Coronavirus A new global survey could help us understand why some people follow the rules for avoiding COVID-19 and others don't By Jocelyn Bélanger

Space Believable Extraterrestrials The 100th anniversary of astronomy's "Great Debate" prompts thoughts on the hunt for life in the universe By Caleb A. Scharf

Behavior & Society Addressing the Stigma That Surrounds Addiction Health care already has effective treatment tools, including medications, but many people who could benefit are reluctant to seek them out By Nora D. Volkow

Space How to Grow Vegetables on Mars If we're ever going to colonize the Red Planet, we'll need to produce food on site—also beer By Edward Guinan,Scott Engle,Alicia Eglin

Biology Will the Nature/Nurture Debate Ever End? Biology writer Carl Zimmer answers questions on heredity, CRISPR, human enhancement, immortality and the coronavirus. By John Horgan

Math The Monster That Expands Our Mathematical Imaginations Ben Orlin shares his favorite fractal curve By Evelyn Lamb

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Torpedoes Are Greatly Overrated as Naval Weapon Originally published in November 1905 | May 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "This is like a storm of blood clots." Behnood Bikdeli, cardiology fellow at Columbia University

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