Why COVID Vaccines Are Taking So Long to Reach You

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February 11, 2021

Public Health Why COVID Vaccines Are Taking So Long to Reach You Bottlenecks in supply chains and difficult appointment-registration systems are slowing distribution By Sophie Bushwick

A Visual Guide to the New Coronavirus Variants In this video, we explain what the new variants actually are, how they arise and spread, and what they could mean for the future of our ability to vaccinate ourselves against the virus. By Sara Reardon, Dominic Smith

Behavior & Society White Chicago Cops Use Force More Often than Black Officers New study of the city's policing also shows differences between male and female cops By Jim Daley

Biology Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the First Publication of the Human Genome A new wave of research is needed to make ample use of humanity's "most wondrous map" By J. Craig Venter

Evolution Neandertalized 'Mini Brains' Yield Clues to Modern Human Uniqueness Experiments on clusters of cultured cells hint that a gene variant found only in Homo sapiens profoundly changed brain development in our species compared to our extinct relatives By Kate Wong

Medicine Why It's So Hard to Make Antiviral Drugs for COVID and Other Diseases Antibiotics abound, but virus-fighting drugs are harder to come by. Fortunately, scientists are getting better at making and finding them By Amber Dance,Knowable Magazine

Climate More Climate Executive Orders Could Be Coming, McCarthy Says The former EPA Administrator says the Biden Administration will also work with Congress to advance climate policies By Scott Waldman,E&E News

EARTH Whales' Long, Loud Calls Reveal Structure beneath Ocean Floor Sound waves from fin whales can help scientists probe Earth's crust By Stephanie Pappas

Physics Snowflake Structure Still Mystifies Physicists Their final shape depends on an array of temperature, humidity, and wind speed variables By Leslie Nemo

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