What's Next in the Search for COVID's Origins

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April 05, 2021

Public Health What's Next in the Search for COVID's Origins A World Health Organization report makes a reasonable start, scientists say, but there are many questions yet to be answered By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Space NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Touches Down, Prepares for Flight Now on the surface, the interplanetary aircraft could soar as early as next week By Tariq Malik,SPACE.com

Public Health How to Debunk Misinformation about COVID, Vaccines and Masks We each have more power to be a science communicator than we realize By Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Conservation Seagrass Forests Counteract Ocean Acidification More of the coastal vegetation could lessen stress on corals and shellfish By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Medicine The Deadly Lung Disease You've Probably Never Heard Of Pulmonary fibrosis is diagnosed in about 50,000 new patients annually, and as many as 40,000 Americans die from it each year By Joyce S. Lee

Space When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe? We don't know, but we could try to find out by searching for it on planets orbiting the very oldest stars By Avi Loeb

Biology Killer Leaves Emerge from Plant-Butterfly Arms Race Closely related plants evolved to sacrifice patches of their own leaves, destroying specific caterpillar eggs By Chris Baraniuk

Policy & Ethics We Must Enhance--but also Decolonize--America's Global Health Diplomacy The U.S. can rebuild its role in the global health landscape on the basis of equitable policies rather than exploitative ones By Ans Irfan,Christopher Jackson,Ankita Arora

Evolution Boston's Pigeons Coo, 'Wicked'; New York's Birds Coo, 'Fuhgeddaboudit' The two cities' rock doves are genetically distinct, research shows. By Karen Hopkin | 03:56

Arts & Culture Poem: 'Picture a Clerihew' Science in meter and verse By William B. Ashworth,Melissa Dehner

Biology Chocolate's Secret Ingredient Is Fermenting Microbes Underneath the shiny wrapper, a chocolate bunny is a fermented food By Caitlin Clark,The Conversation US

Behavior & Society Why People Won't Rethink Holiday Plans during a Pandemic One reason: we're deeply attached to familiar rituals By Daniel Stein,Nick Hobson

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FROM THE ARCHIVE How China's 'Bat Woman' Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli has identified dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves, and she warns there are more out there By Jane Qiu | June 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "This is just a very first step on an expectedly long trip to find the origin." Thea Fisher, public-health virologist at the North Zealand Hospital in Copenhagen

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