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February 02, 2021

Policy & Ethics If You've Been Working from Home, Please Wait for Your Vaccine You can't ethically go ahead of the very people who made it possible for you to do so—at great personal risk By Steven W. Thrasher

Medicine Why COVID Vaccines Are Likely Safe for Pregnant People The scantness of available data leaves the decision up to the individual and their doctors, though benefits can outweigh risks in some cases By Mariana Lenharo

Arts & Culture Amanda Gorman's Climate Poem Says Act 'Now, Now, Now' The Youth Poet Laureate offers an urgent message By Mark Fischetti

Natural Disasters Home Sales Need Better Disclosure of Flood Risk, Experts Say A patchwork of state laws can leave some home buyers unaware of their risks and uninsured By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Public Health A COVID Look-alike That Strikes Young Adults A dangerous lung illness stems from substandard vape liquids By Claudia Wallis

Public Health Why Are We Still Deep-Cleaning Surfaces for COVID? The coronavirus behind the pandemic can linger on doorknobs and other surfaces, but these aren't a major source of infection By Dyani Lewis,Nature magazine

Biology This Flower Is Really a Fungus in Disguise In Guyanese savannas, a fungus infects grasslike plants, sterilizes them and produces bizarre all-fungal "flower" doppelgängers By Priyanka Runwal

Cognition How the Brain Responds to Beauty Scientists search for the neural basis of an enigmatic experience By Jason Castro

Policy & Ethics What Science Can and Cannot Do in a Time of Pandemic It can inform policy, but it can't dictate how to weigh the moral and political nature of policy makers' decisions By Nason Maani,Sandro Galea

Arts & Culture Science Meets Magical Realism in Son of Monarchs A new film that just premiered at Sundance tells of migration, loss and transformation on the wing By Pakinam Amer

EARTH Science News Briefs from around the World Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one from Costa Rica about decoy sea turtle eggs with the potential to catch poachers. By Sarah Lewin Frasier | 02:04

Arts & Culture Poem: A Unified Theory of Love Science in meter and verse By Kit Wienert

FROM THE STORE Ask the Experts: Physics and Math Scientific American's  "Ask the Experts" column has been answering reader questions for nearly two decades. Now, we've combed through our archives and compiled some of the most interesting entries into a series of eBooks organized by subject. In the first of the series – Physics and Math – professors and researchers tackle a wide range of natural phenomena and mathematical concepts from what is antimatter to applications of game theory to what we know about tachyons.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "If you've been working from home, you can't ethically be line-jumping ahead of the very people who made it possible for you to work from home, at great personal risk." Stephen W. Thrasher, professor at Northwestern University in the Medill School of Journalism

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