The Power of Social Justice Movements

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February 03, 2021

Behavior & Society The Power of Social Justice Movements Black Lives Matter takes the baton from the Civil Rights Movement By Aldon Morris

Physics Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics Recent results from a pulsar timing array, which uses dead stars to hunt for gravitational waves, has scientists speculating about cosmic strings and primordial black holes By Adam Mann

Environment U.S. Cities Are Underestimating Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions The errors could make it more difficult for cities to meet goals for reducing their planet-warming footprint By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Public Health Pathogen Discovered that Kills Endangered Chimps: Is It a Threat to Humans? An Ebola outbreak and a few false leads slowed a 15-year search for bacteria that attack the nerves and gut By Rachel Nuwer

Space Life on Venus Claim Faces Strongest Challenge Yet New studies knock down a controversial report observing phosphine in the planet's atmosphere By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

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

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

Arts & Culture Amanda Gorman's Climate Poem Says, Act 'Now, Now, Now' The youth poet laureate offers an urgent message By Mark Fischetti

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

Space Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He's Not Kidding In conversation, the Harvard University professor explains his shocking hypothesis—and calls out what he sees as a crisis in science By Lee Billings

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FROM THE ARCHIVE I Can't Breathe: Asthma, Black Men and the Police The common, chronic inflammation of the airways may help explain why deaths in custody are so high among African-Americans By Obasi Okorie,Ekemini Hogan,Utibe Effiong | October 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Social movements have likely existed for as long as oppressive human societies have, but only in the past few centuries has their praxis--meaning, the melding of theory and practice that they involve--developed into a craft, to be learned and honed." Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University and president of the American Sociological Association

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