What It's Like to Have Face Blindness during the Pandemic

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April 21, 2021

Cognition What It's Like to Have Face Blindness during the Pandemic Before COVID, I would often be embarrassed when I didn't recognize someone while walking my dog. Not now By Daniel Gibbs

Computing Algorithm Virtually Unfolds a Historical Letter without Unsealing It In the centuries before envelopes, "letterlocking" secured a message's information By Sophie Bushwick

Space China Is Set to Launch First Module of Massive Space Station The new orbiting laboratory will host research from Chinese and international scientists By Ling Xin

Climate Biden's Climate Summit Will Be an International Chess Match Leading experts assess what they see as the likely moves By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

EARTH A Healthy Environment as a Human Right U.N. recognition would strengthen legal arguments for preserving nature By Katarina Zimmer,Knowable Magazine

Behavior & Society Why Are Police Using a World War I–Era Chemical Weapon on Civilians? Most people think tear gas is relatively harmless, but we know very little about its long-term effects on human health and the environment By Jennifer L. Brown,Roman Tyshynsky,Timothy Monko,Carlee Toddes,Carey E. Lyons

Public Health What's Causing Michigan's COVID Surge, and Who's Getting Sick? An anesthesiologist at the University of Michigan describes the new influx of patients and what this may mean for the pandemic's trajectory By Tanya Lewis

Policy & Ethics Three Ways to Fix Toxic Policing Accountability, demilitarization and the transfer of responsibilities to social workers are needed to remake our overly antagonistic law-enforcement agencies By THE EDITORS

Public Health India's Massive COVID Surge Puzzles Scientists The virus is spreading faster than ever before in the country despite previous high infection rates in megacities, which should have conferred some protection By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Evolution Genomes Reveal Humanity's Journey into the Americas DNA has upended neat and tidy accounts of the peopling of the American continents By Jennifer Raff

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FROM THE ARCHIVE New Promise for Those Who Suffer from Face Blindness Improvements are seen after playing a modified version of Guess Who? By Sarah Bate | December 2019

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