How the U.S. Pandemic Response Went Wrong—and What Went Right—during a Year of COVID

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March 11, 2021

Public Health How the U.S. Pandemic Response Went Wrong—and What Went Right—during a Year of COVID On the anniversary of this global disaster, we take a look back at some of the biggest mistakes, surprising successes and lingering questions By Tanya Lewis

Space NASA Will Map Every Living Thing on the International Space Station Surveying the billions of tiny microbial astronauts that dwell within the orbital laboratory could help us prepare for human voyages to Mars By Shannon Hall

Cognition Baby Talk and Lemur Chatter--but Not Birdsong--Help an Infant's Brain Develop Researchers probe the outer boundaries of what types of sounds human infants tune in to for building cognition By Rachel Nuwer

Computing A Global Computer Chip Shortage Shows Danger of U.S. Production Trends A small and shrinking number of the world's computer chips are made in the U.S. By Carol Handwerker,The Conversation US

Space Perseverance Mars Rover Records Sound of Rock-Zapping Laser NASA's latest robotic explorer is capturing the snaps, crackles and pops of sizzling stones on the Red Planet By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Public Health New Technologies Could Protect Against Arsenic Toxicity in Water Filters in household faucets and genetic technology could help reduce this public health threat, biologist Rebecca Fry says By Silke Schmidt,Knowable Magazine

Policy & Ethics A Letter to the Generation in Power We have put our lives on hold for you. Will you face climate change for us? By Bennett Weissenbach

Environment Mississippi Mud Might Stop Louisiana from Disappearing Engineers will tap river sediment to try to create wetlands faster than they are disappearing By Daniel Cusick,Hannah Northey,E&E News

Behavior & Society So What Can People Actually Do after Being Vaccinated? It's complicated; not even the experts agree By Carolyn Barber

In the Path of Halley's Comet, Humanity Might Find Its Way Forward The work of decoding the cosmic traveler has surprising relevance right now By Henry DaCosta,Mitch Myers,Jeffery DelViscio

FROM THE STORE Hacking the Immune System The immune system is a marvel, but sometimes those defenses need help. In this eBook, we examine various ways the immune system is being manipulated to fight disease, starting with the science behind the research into COVID vaccines and treatments. We also examine cutting-edge interventions for infectious diseases beyond COVID such as a universal flu vaccine, immunotherapies for cancer and more.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Grief on the Front Line--and Beyond In their own voices, health care workers from across the country reflect on coping with the coronavirus By Jillian Mock,Jen Schwartz | June 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "In the beginning, when this started a year ago, we knew that it was spreading. And we knew that it also was lethal in some percentage of people. But I don't think we had a full appreciation about how bad it was." Stanley Perlman, virologist at the University of Iowa

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