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April 12, 2021

Medicine How Could a COVID Vaccine Cause Blood Clots? Researchers are searching for possible links between unusual clotting and the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Space Bill Nelson Isn't the Best Choice for NASA Administrator Biden's nominee exemplifies the agency's pork-barrel, male-dominated past By Lori Garver

Climate We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We're Going to Say So It's time to use a term that more than 13,000 scientists agree is needed By Mark Fischetti

Space Dark Matter's Last Stand A new experiment could catch invisible particles that previous detectors have not By Clara Moskowitz

Climate To Fight Climate Change: Grow a Floating Forest, Then Sink It A fast-growing front in the battle against climate change is focused on developing green technologies aimed at reducing humankind's carbon footprint, but many scientists say simply reducing emissions is no longer enough. We have to find new ways to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. A Maine start-up is looking to raise a sinkable carbon-capturing forest in the open ocean. By Teresa L. Carey | 05:24

Public Health More Women Than Men Are Getting COVID Vaccines The reasons may include women's roles as caregivers and their greater likelihood of seeking out preventive health care in general By Laura Ungar,Kaiser Health News

Neuroscience Forecast or Remember: The Brain Must Choose One Trying to predict a situation impedes memory formation By Hannah Seo

Arts & Culture Sweeping Whale Streaming Series, Profile of CRISPR Discoverer and an Examination of Future Realities Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American By Andrea Gawrylewski

Behavior & Society A Pep Talk from Steven Pinker Despite what we see in the headlines, the data-driven optimist thinks we should be grateful to live in the best era in humanity's long, troubled history By John Horgan

Behavior & Society To Confront the U.S. Border Crisis, Save Central America's Forests Climate change and other environmental threats are destabilizing these vital areas and helping drive mass northward migration By Jeremy Radachowsky

Policy & Ethics In Case You Missed It Top news from around the world By Sarah Lewin Frasier

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Mind, Volume 32, Issue 2

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Details in Death of Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space, Revealed 45 Years Later An accident is revealed as the true cause of Gagarin's crash during a test flight in 1968 By Robert Z. Pearlman,SPACE.com | June 2013

QUOTE OF THE DAY "NASA has the potential to make profound contributions to the most important goals President Biden is instilling across the government, if it can break from the parochial and patriarchal systems of the past." Lori Garver, former deputy administrator of the NASA, now CEO of Earthrise Alliance, a philanthropic organization that converts Earth systems data into relevant and actionable knowledge to combat climate change

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