Blood Clots and the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine: What We Know So Far

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April 23, 2021

Medicine Blood Clots and the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine: What We Know So Far Infectious disease physician-scientist Wilbur Chen discusses the rare cases of blood clots linked to the immunization By Jim Daley

Climate U.S. Commits to Greater CO2 Reductions, China and India Do Not At climate summit, Japan, Canada and the E.U. also announce ambitious targets, while Russia and Australia resist By Sara Schonhardt,Scott Waldman,E&E News

Biology Octopus 'Teachers' Demonstrate They Feel Emotional Pain As a documentary about a cephalopod contends for an Oscar, a new study reveals the sophistication of the animals’ inner experiences By Anna Blaustein

Biology Watch Blood Cells Stream around an Air Bubble--It's Very Soothing. A microscopy enthusiast captured a video of his own blood cells in action By Leslie Nemo

Public Health COVID, Quickly, Episode 5: Vaccine Safety in Pregnancy, Blood Clots and Long-Haul Realities Today we bring you the fifth episode in our podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 05:53

Behavior & Society Scientists Should Never Stop Being Students Being too comfortable with the universe as it’s “supposed to be” is harmful to creative thinking By Avi Loeb

Climate Climate Change Will Force Us to Rethink Migration and Asylum It will become increasingly untenable to reduce U.S. immigration and asylum policy to a question of border security By Zoë Carpenter,The Nation

Policy & Ethics Science Policy Can't Be Simply about Science As early-career researchers, we argue that it also has to prioritize justice and social equity By Kavitha Chintam,Jennifer L. Brown,Brian S. Canter,Ryan B. Dudek,Marie Fiori,Sarah Hall,Christopher Jackson,Sindhu Nathan,Bernat Navarro-Serer,Meredith Schmehl,Melody Tan,Meredith Ward,Caitlin Warlick-Short,Isabel Warner

Policy & Ethics Biden Promises to Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 50 Percent by 2030 The goal sets a high bar for other countries attending today’s global climate summit By Scott Waldman,E&E News

Space NASA's Perseverance Rover Makes Oxygen on Mars for First Time The technique could someday help astronauts sustainably live and work on the Red Planet By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Public Health Coronavirus News Roundup, April 17–April 23 Pandemic highlights for the week   By Robin Lloyd

FROM THE STORE Technology vs. Truth: Deception in the Digital Age   In the digital age, information, both true and false, spreads faster than ever. The same technology that provides access to data across the globe can abet the warping of truth and normalization of lies. In this eBook, we examine the intersection of truth, untruth and technology, including how social media manipulates behavior, technologies such as deepfakes that spread misinformation, the bias inherent in algorithms and more.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Which COVID Vaccine Is 'Best'? Why Do Some People Have Side Effects? Experts Answer These Questions and More Scientific American talked to scientists about everything from what efficacy means to protection against the new coronavirus variants By Jim Daley | February 2021

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