What Monkeys Can Teach Humans about Resilience after Disaster

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April 08, 2021

Biology What Monkeys Can Teach Humans about Resilience after Disaster Following Hurricane Maria, a Puerto Rican colony of rhesus macaques broadened their social networks. Could humans do the same post-COVID? By Lydia Denworth

Public Health Slovakia Offers a Lesson in How Rapid Testing Can Fight COVID One of the country's top epidemiologists explains how population-wide use of rapid antigen tests—in combination with other measures—helped get its outbreak under control By Tanya Lewis

Climate Biden Says Infrastructure Is the Pillar of His Climate Plan Clean energy, electric vehicles, stopping methane leaks are all "part of infrastructure" and job creation By Scott Waldman,E&E News

Environment Data Show Shifting Colors of U.S. Rivers Satellites reveal large-scale changes in rivers' hues By Nikk Ogasa

Biology How a Carnivorous Mushroom Poisons Its Prey Scientists have known for decades that oyster mushrooms feasted on roundworms—and they've finally figured out how their toxins work By Jennifer Frazer

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Who's Top Monkey? How Social Status Affects Immune Health Social hierarchies among rhesus macaques give rise to differences in their ability to respond to bacterial and viral invaders By Catherine Caruso | November 2016

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We showed, even if the lockdown was perfect, it could not explain such a rapid decrease in prevalence. So we were able to say, 'There must be an effect of the mass testing.'" Martin Pavelka, epidemiologist at Slovakia's Ministry of Health, Scientific American

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