'Cave Syndrome' Keeps the Vaccinated in Social Isolation

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May 03, 2021

Behavior & Society 'Cave Syndrome' Keeps the Vaccinated in Social Isolation After a year away from friends and co-workers, people sometimes struggle to resume their public routines By Melba Newsome

Public Health The First Billion COVID Vaccinations Have Been Given It took just four months to reach this global milestone, and hitting the two-billion mark could happen even faster, say scientists By Freda Kreier,Nature magazine

Physics The Fermilab Muon Measurement May or May Not Point to New Physics, But ... It was important either way, because the experiment that generated it was breathtakingly precise By Robert P. Crease

Natural Disasters Fear Is the Key to Convincing Residents to Evacuate before a Storm Safety officials need to use strong language and images to persuade the human psyche By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Space Saturn Probe Data Reveal Impressive Depth of Titan's Largest Sea The moon's massive pool of methane, ethane and nitrogen could potentially swallow skyscrapers By Sid Perkins

Arts & Culture Poem: 'String Theory' Science in meter and verse By Richard A. Jones

Space Stars That Race through Space at Nearly the Speed of Light Some are blasted out of galaxies by interactions with black holes; others, which orbit supermassive black holes, can smash together in titanic explosions By Avi Loeb

Biology The Delight of Watching Birds on the Streets of New York This past pandemic winter, when the world felt doubly dreary, our avian friends were especially high on many peoples' happy lists By Julia M. Zichello

Medicine Blood Test Gives Early Warning of Failing Heart Transplant The new DNA-based test predicts transplant rejection By Harini Barath

Engineering 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: May 2021 When time began; superior bread baking By Mark Fischetti

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FROM THE ARCHIVE The Surprising Mental Toll of COVID The rise in depression and anxiety is even worse than expected, especially among young adults By Claudia Wallis | December 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "The pandemic-related changes created a lot of fear and anxiety because of the risk of illness and death, along with the repercussions in many areas of life. Even though a person may be vaccinated, they still may find it difficult to let go of that fear because they're overestimating the risk and probability." Jacqueline Gollan, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University

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