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March 15, 2021

Chemistry How Quantum Computing Could Remake Chemistry It will bring molecular modeling to a new level of accuracy, reducing researchers' reliance on serendipity By Jeannette Garcia

EARTH Sunlight Changes Unequally All Year Long Some days we gain one minute; some days we gain three By Mark Fischetti,Jen Christiansen

Public Health COVID Cases Plummet Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy The decline suggests the vaccine is having an effect even though workers have been slower to take it than residents By Melissa Bailey,Shoshana Dubnow,Kaiser Health News

Conservation How Starting Brush Fires Could Save Africa's Disappearing Lions Strategic fire management could cut emissions and earn tradable carbon credits, generating funds to save the big cats and benefit Indigenous people By Nancy Averett

Policy & Ethics FEMA Says It Will Make Disaster Response More Equitable The Federal Emergency Management Agency acknowledges that recovery programs have unfairly burdened certain populations By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Behavior & Society Biden's Big Science Challenge: Increasing Public Trust Local engagement, not top-down technocracy, is the way to build acceptance of STEM policy By Michael S. Lubell,Philip Rubin

Computing How We Got More Than 10,000 Students from 120 Countries to Embrace the Joy of Coding Stanford is offering its popular computer science intro course for free—and you can help teach it By Chris Piech,Mehran Sahami,Julie Zelenski,Lisa Einstein

Policy & Ethics Science Needs to Face Up to Its Racist History Elevating science's role in policy making is important; so is reckoning with how science has been used to harm marginalized communities By Shannon Dosemagen

Climate How Dirt Could Help Save the Planet Farming practices that retain carbon in the soil, or return it there, would limit both erosion and climate change By Jo Handelsman

Public Health CDC's 'Huge Mistake': Did Misguided Mask Advice Drive Up COVID Death Toll for Health Workers? Until a month ago, the agency advised that a surgical mask was sufficient unless workers were performing "aerosol-generating procedures" By Christina Jewett,Kaiser Health News

Physics Poem: States of Matter Science in meter and verse By Anna Leahy

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