The Most Worrying Mutations in Five Emerging Coronavirus Variants

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January 29, 2021

Public Health The Most Worrying Mutations in Five Emerging Coronavirus Variants Here is a guide to novel versions of the COVID-causing virus—and genetic changes that can make them more contagious and evasive in the body By Sara Reardon

Natural Disasters Hurricanes Are Hitting Maximum Strength Closer to Land The storms are also migrating to higher latitudes By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Misconceptions about Wildfires Are Fueling the Problem In this video, we talk to experts who say many accounts of California's blazes sensationalize the extent of forest devastation while paying less attention to fire's crucial role in nature. By Erik Olsen

Biology A Stunning 3-D Journey inside a Cancer Cell Created with a technique called Z stacking, this GIF brings the disease to life By Leslie Nemo

Conservation The Real Cost of Planting Trees Careful monitoring and up-front investment are necessary to ensure reforestation efforts yield benefits for communities and biodiversity By Lauren E. Oakes

Biology Scientists Take a Cattle Head Count in India The research team determined that the city of Raipur in central India has at least one street cow for every 54 human residents. Christopher Intagliata reports. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:06

Public Health Stories from a Past Pandemic Readers write in about their ancestors' experiences during the 1918 flu By THE EDITORS

Policy & Ethics Biden Elevates Science in Week One Actions The president has moved quickly on COVID-19 and climate change and has boosted scientists' roles in his administration By Jim Daley

Public Health It's Time to Consider Vaccine Mandates in High-Risk Settings Leaving vaccination to individual choice is unacceptably dangerous in places such as nursing homes, long-term care facilities and prisons By Dorit Rubinstein Reiss,Arthur Caplan

Public Health Coronavirus News Roundup: January 23-January 29 Pandemic highlights for the week By Robin Lloyd

FROM THE STORE Ask the Experts: Human Body and Mind The third eBook in our Ask the Experts series, Human Body and Mind tackles questions about our own strange and mysterious biology, from how we evolved to exist this way to feats of body and mind.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "What we're seeing is similar mutations arising in multiple places. That's pretty suggestive that these mutations are doing something." Adam Lauring, virologist at the University of Michigan

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