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November 11, 2020

Policy & Ethics We Finally Have a COVID Strategy The Biden-Harris plan is vastly better than Trump's "you're on your own" approach—but it's not perfect By Steven W. Thrasher

Public Health The Real Danger Posed by Coronavirus-Infected Mink A new SARS-CoV-2 strain in mink has infected about a dozen people in Denmark, but it is not known whether the mutation makes the virus more dangerous By Lars Fischer

Aerospace Birdlike Flight Formations Could Cut Airline Emissions A bioinspired arrangement could save energy by allowing one plane to provide extra lift to another—if both aircraft can remain stable By Dhananjay Khadilkar

Space China Set to Retrieve First Moon Rocks in 40 Years Chang'e-5 has just one lunar day to collect material from a previously unexplored region of the moon's near side By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Climate How Biden Might Reverse Trump's Attacks on Climate Research His options include revaluing the costs of climate change and removing political appointees who have downplayed climate science By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Public Health How We Can Avoid a 'Twindemic' of COVID and Flu There's no vaccine against the coronavirus yet, but we have influenza vaccines—and we need to use them By David Oshinsky,Arthur Caplan

Public Health Solving the Mysteries of Ancient Plagues DNA from bacteria and viruses, recovered from human remains, shows how pathogens helped to topple empires and change civilizations By James P. Close

Biology Viruses Can Be Delicious as Well as Deadly They're not exempt from participation in the food web By Jennifer Frazer

Evolution Zebra Coloration Messes With Fly Eyes Horseflies misjudge landing on zebra patterns compared with solid grey or black surfaces, which provides evidence for why evolution came up with the black and white pattern. By Mark Stratton | 03:36

Computing Virtual Patients Could Revolutionize Medicine Replacing humans with digital simulations could make clinical trials faster and safer By Daniel E. Hurtado,Sophia M. Velastegui

Computing Spatial Computing Could Be the Next Big Thing Beyond virtual and augmented reality By Corinna E. Lathan,Geoffrey Ling

Medicine Digital Medicine Can Diagnose and Treat What Ails You Therapeutic and diagnostic apps and bots are almost here By P. Murali Doraiswamy

Engineering Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2020 Experts highlight advances with the potential to revolutionize industry, health care and society

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FROM THE ARCHIVE How to Use Masks during the Coronavirus Pandemic What kinds of face coverings work for protection against COVID-19? How do you use them safely? A series of simple steps outlines the answers By Katie Peek | June 2020

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