People Gave Up on Flu Pandemic Measures a Century Ago when They Tired of Them--and Paid a Price

Trouble viewing? View in your browser. View all Scientific American publications.

    

March 26, 2021

Public Health People Gave Up on Flu Pandemic Measures a Century Ago when They Tired of Them--and Paid a Price A now familiar 21st-century scenario of circumventing public-health strictures played out as well at the beginning of the 20th century By J. Alexander Navarro

Public Health Loneliness Is a Public Health Problem: This Low-Tech Intervention Can Help Phone calls may be integral to connecting with people who are lonely and isolated By Kasra Zarei

Climate Solar Geoengineering Should be Investigated, Scientists Say Recommendation from the National Academies stirs controversy over consequences By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Space This Mars-Studying Scientist May Be the First Woman to Walk on the Moon Jessica Watkins is excited for humans to get to work on the lunar surface By Lee Billings

Math Math Can Help Build a Global Digital Community During the pandemic, the National Museum of Mathematics found new ways to build human connections By Cindy Lawrence

Physics Unexplained Results Intrigue Physicists at World's Largest Particle Collider Muons and electrons might not experience the same fundamental interactions, contrary to Standard Model predictions By Daniel Garisto

Public Health Hidden Toll of COVID in Africa Threatens Global Pandemic Progress Undercounting or ignoring cases of the disease on the continent could lead to new variants that might derail efforts to end the pandemic By Sarah Wild

Environment Hunger Strikers Seeking Environmental Justice Win Air-Pollution Delay​ A hunger strike in Chicago and concerns raised by city and state politicians have slowed the planned move of a metal scrapper to a working-class, predominantly Latino community By Jim Daley

Public Health The Coronavirus Variants Don't Seem to Be Highly Variable So Far SARS-CoV-2 may be settling into a limited set of mutations By Vaughn Cooper

Public Health Coronavirus News Roundup, March 20 - March 26 Pandemic highlights for the week By Robin Lloyd

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Print & Digital Subscription For $34.99 a year, your Print & Digital Subscription includes monthly delivery of print issues and is accessible on all of your devices via the web and Android and iOS apps.

ADVERTISEMENT

FROM THE ARCHIVE The 1918 Flu Faded in Our Collective Memory: We Might 'Forget' the Coronavirus, Too The legacy of the 20th century's deadliest pandemic shows how large groups remember—and forget—their shared past By Scott Hershberger | August 2020

LATEST ISSUES

Questions?   Comments?

Download the Scientific American App

To view this email as a web page, go here. You received this email because you opted-in to receive email from Scientific American. To ensure delivery please add news@email.scientificamerican.com to your address book. Unsubscribe     Manage Email Preferences     Privacy Policy     Contact Us