COVID Has Created a Perfect Storm for Fringe Science

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April 26, 2021

Behavior & Society COVID Has Created a Perfect Storm for Fringe Science It's always been with us, but in a time of pandemic, its practitioners have an amplified capacity to unleash serious harm By David Robert Grimes

Space Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Goes Long Distance in Third Flight The rotorcraft set performance records in its latest test, flying a total distance of 100 meters By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Environment Unsnarling Traffic Jams Is the Newest Way to Lower Emissions Results of a novel study would also save drivers time and fuel By John Fialka,E&E News

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

Behavior & Society Making Vaccines Is Straightforward; Getting People to Take Them Isn't Our instincts are unreliable about which problems are easy to solve and which are hard By Naomi Oreskes

Math The Art of Mathematics in Chalk A photography project reveals the allure of equations in mathematicians' blackboard work By Clara Moskowitz

Computing Artificial Intelligence Develops an Ear for Birdsong Machine-learning algorithms can quickly process thousands of hours of natural soundscapes By Harini Barath

Policy & Ethics Our Health System Is Failing Patients with Limited English Better communication could help reduce inequities, but our medical infrastructure isn't designed to take that into account By Benjamin Allar,Gezzer Ortega

Evolution How 3-D Scanning Is Reinventing Paleoanthropology It lets us excavate ancient fossils while preserving information about the sediments that hold them—crucial to understanding their age, among other things By Jesse Martin

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

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

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FROM THE ARCHIVE How to Debunk Misinformation about COVID, Vaccines and Masks We each have more power to be a science communicator than we realize By Kathleen Hall Jamieson | April 2021

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