Students Who Gesture during Learning 'Grasp' Concepts Better

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April 13, 2021

Behavior & Society Students Who Gesture during Learning 'Grasp' Concepts Better Hand movement appears to help in teaching about statistical models By Matthew Hutson

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

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

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

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

Space Celebrating 60 Years of Humans in Space The anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic voyage to orbit is a chance to reflect on how far human spaceflight has come—and where it's going next By Meghan Bartels,SPACE.com

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

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

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

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

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

EARTH Glacier Is Surging Down Denali Mountain in Alaska The slumping ice is moving 50 to 100 times faster than usual By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

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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 "We're trying to test 'Where is the boundary of the power of gesture?'" Icy (Yunyi) Zhang, a psychology graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, Scientific American

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