If You Don't Have COVID Vaccine Side Effects, Are You Still Protected?

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April 01, 2021

Medicine If You Don't Have COVID Vaccine Side Effects, Are You Still Protected? Reactions reflect unique features of an individual's immune system, not the strength of a response By Stephani Sutherland

Climate Biden's Infrastructure Plan Would Make Electricity Carbon-Free by 2035 A clean energy standard for power plants is the linchpin, although details are thin By Scott Waldman

The Body Our Bodies Replace Billions of Cells Every Day Blood and the gut dominate cell turnover By Mark Fischetti,Jen Christiansen

Behavior & Society The Best Medicine Doesn't Always Come in a Bottle A program called Wheels of Change pays unsheltered people to pick up trash or otherwise help clean up their community—and it can turn their lives around By Carolyn Barber

Arts & Culture Why Building a Diverse Company Is Good for Business Celeste Warren of drug manufacturer Merck discusses diversity in science and medicine and the journey of rising up in the ranks of a major multinational company By Marlene Stewart

Policy & Ethics Scientists Should Admit They Bring Personal Values to Their Work Value neutrality among researchers is a myth that hurts the public trust of science By Naomi Oreskes

Conservation Save the Butterflies--but Not to Save Our Food Supply These insects are lovely, but despite what many think, they aren't significant contributors to pollinating agriculturally important plants By Erica Fleishman

Conservation Imperiled Freshwater Turtles Are Eating Plastics--Science Is Just Revealing the Threat We know a lot about how sea turtles are threatened by our trash, but new research has just uncovered an underreported threat hiding inside lakes and rivers. By Jason G. Goldman | 05:17

Physics Long-Awaited Muon Physics Experiment Nears Moment of Truth A result that has been 20 years in the making could reveal the existence of new particles and upend fundamental physics By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Behavior & Society We Learned the Wrong Lessons from the Tuskegee 'Experiment' It's understandable that Black Americans are wary of vaccines, but that despicable episode involved the withholding of treatment, whereas vaccines actively prevent disease By Melba Newsome

Behavior & Society Home Advantage Doesn't Require Crowds, COVID Pro Soccer Matches Show An assessment of games before and during the pandemic suggests that teams play better on their own turf even without crowd support By Diana Kwon

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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

QUOTE OF THE DAY "The big take-home message is that not having side effects, or [having] not as severe side effects, is no reason to worry." John Wherry, immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania

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