Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling Could Jeopardize Health Insurance for People with COVID

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October 21, 2020

Public Health Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling Could Jeopardize Health Insurance for People with COVID In a case on the Affordable Care Act next month, a conservative court could take away protections for preexisting conditions By Tanya Lewis

Space NASA's OSIRIS-REx Successfully Touches Asteroid Bennu The spacecraft attempted to collect samples from the asteroid for eventual return to Earth By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Medicine Human Challenge Trials Will Deliberately Infect Dozens in the UK Proponents of the trials say they can be run safely and help to identify effective vaccines, but others have questioned their value By Ewen Callaway,Nature magazine

Environment The World Needs to Ramp Up Solutions for Greener Cooling A proliferation in traditional air conditioning meant to protect people from intense heat could also exacerbate warming By Avery Ellfeldt,E&E News

Environment Restoring Seagrass Brings Barren Bays To Life Seeding empty bottom mud with marine grasses has brought back fish, shellfish, and cleaned the water By Robert J. Orth,Jonathan Lefcheck,Karen McGlathery,The Conversation US

Cognition Hypnosis Experts Cast Doubt on Famous Psychological Experiments Suggestibility may explain why people "feel" vicarious pain or sensation in a fake hand By Simon Makin

Evolution Gallery: The Maya Who Escaped Spanish Conquest The Lacandon Maya eluded the conquistadors and survived in the jungle for hundreds of years. Archaeological discoveries are revealing their past By Zach Zorich

Policy & Ethics Racism and Sexism in Science Haven't Disappeared Those who argue that the system will magically self-correct are kidding themselves By Naomi Oreskes

Biology Vicious Woodpecker Battles Draw an Avian Audience Biologists who study acorn woodpeckers' power struggles are not the only ones watching—so are rival woodpecker groups By Jim Daley

Behavior & Society When Will Football Stadiums Look Normal Again? Professional and college teams alike need to get fans back in the stands in droves—as long as they can keep everyone safe By Carolyn Barber

FROM THE STORE Ask the Experts: Astronomy This second eBook in our Ask the Experts series – Astronomy – looks skyward and explains a variety of universal phenomena and theories. Questions on stars, planets, asteroids, galaxies, black holes, space exploration and more are answered in this collection.

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