Safely Reopening Requires Testing, Tracing and Isolation, Not Just Vaccines

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February 09, 2021

Public Health Safely Reopening Requires Testing, Tracing and Isolation, Not Just Vaccines No matter how effective vaccines are, they are not enough By Peter Sands,Achim Steiner

Climate Climate Change Hits Rock and Roll as Prized Guitar Wood Shortage Looms Flooding and a wood-boring beetle threaten supplies of storied "swamp ash" By Andrea Thompson,Priyanka Runwal

Behavior & Society The Benefits of Being Yourself Online Research shows being authentic leads to a happier life By Erica R. Bailey,Sandra Matz

Environment Tribal Coal Fields Will Test Biden's Environmental Justice Goals A massive coal plant, demolished in December, was a linchpin of the Navajo and Hopi economies for nearly 50 years By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Behavior & Society Humans Are Pretty Lousy Lie Detectors Whenever we hear someone speak, we form an opinion about their believability. But our eyes and ears can lead us astray By Christiane Gelitz

Space The United Arab Emirates' Hope Probe Approaches Mars Stakes are high for the Arab world's first ever interplanetary mission as it prepares to enter Martian orbit By Meghan Bartels,SPACE.com

Energy Sunlight Powers Portable, Inexpensive Systems to Produce Drinking Water A new generation of tech uses heat from the sun to provide clean, salt-free water By Prachi Patel

Public Health Why the U.S. Is Underestimating COVID Reinfection Many U.S. states aren't rigorously tracking or investigating suspected cases of reinfection By JoNel Aleccia,Kaiser Health News

Behavior & Society How AI Is Learning to Identify Toxic Online Content Machine-learning systems could help flag hateful, threatening or offensive language  By Laura Hanu,James Thewlis,Sasha Haco

Climate Biden Pushes U.S.--and the World--to Help Climate Migrants He has ordered a government study of climate change's impact on migration, including options for refugee resettlement By Adam Aton,E&E News

Biology Hormone Levels Are Being Used to Discriminate against Female Athletes Despite slim evidence, testosterone is keeping some women off the field By Grace Huckins

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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