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April 15, 2021

Public Health Schools Can Open Safely during COVID, the Latest Evidence Shows The risk of COVID transmission in schools is very low if precautions are taken By Tanya Lewis

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 What Should We Do if Extraterrestrials Show Up? It's hard to say at this point, but a crucial first step is to establish whether they exist so any future arrival won't come as a complete surprise By Avi Loeb

Space New NASA Administrator Should Reject Its Patriarchal and Parochial Past Bill Nelson, Biden's nominee, exemplifies the agency's pork-barrel, male-dominated past By Lori Garver

Climate Youth Leaders for Climate Justice Say, 'We Are Ready to Work' Inspiring individuals from Argentina, Colombia and Kuwait lay out actions that can improve people's lives By Mark Fischetti

Policy & Ethics Gender-Affirming Health Care Should Be a Right, Not a Crime Some states are going to war against young transgender people By Kristina R. Olson

First in Space: New Yuri Gagarin Biography Shares Hidden Side of Cosmonaut It's been 60 years, to the day, since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel to space in a tiny capsule attached to an R-7 ballistic missile, a powerful rocket originally designed to carry a three- to five-megaton nuclear warhead. In this new episode marking the 60th anniversary of this historic space flight—the first of its kind—Scientific American talks to Stephen Walker, an award-winning filmmaker, director and book author, about the daring launch that changed the course of human history and charted a map to the skies and beyond. By Pakinam Amer

The Body Why Race Matters in Personalized Health Care Achieving better, more equitable treatments requires looking at multiple factors that affect populations differently, including genetic variations By Saba Sile

Arts & Culture The Ups and Downs of an Impossible Staircase A 3-D reimagining of a classic illusion reveals new depths By Stephen Macknik,Susana Martinez-Conde

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Health & Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 2

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FROM THE ARCHIVE When Will Kids Get COVID Vaccines? Pharmaceutical companies are starting clinical trials in young children and adolescents, but they must balance speed and safety By Melinda Wenner Moyer | March 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Scientific American has agreed with major news outlets worldwide to start using the term 'climate emergency' in its coverage of climate change." Mark Fischetti, Scientific American

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