In Shocking Move, U.S. Backs Waiving Patents on COVID Vaccines

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May 07, 2021

Policy & Ethics In Shocking Move, U.S. Backs Waiving Patents on COVID Vaccines The development from the Biden administration draws cheers from public health researchers and ire from drugmakers By Amy Maxmen,Nature magazine

Engineering The NYPD's Robot Dog Was a Really Bad Idea: Here's What Went Wrong Design, context and timing influence whether humans embrace a robot or reject it By Sophie Bushwick

Public Health Brazil's Pandemic Is a 'Biological Fukushima' That Threatens the Entire Planet The largest country in Latin America now has states and cities where deaths are outpacing births By Miguel Nicolelis

Behavior & Society How GPS Weakens Memory--and What We Can Do about It A new app helps you navigate, not with turn-by-turn directions but via audio "beacons" By Mar Gonzalez-Franco,Gregory Dane Clemenson,Amos Miller

Environment Carbon Capture Technologies Are Improving Nicely U.S. lab is looking to establish a nationwide industry By John Fialka,E&E News

Physics Physicists Edge Closer to Taming the Three-Body Problem A new model cuts through the chaos to reach the best-yet predictions of complex gravitational interactions By Charlie Wood,LiveScience

Public Health COVID, Quickly, Episode 6: The Real Reason for India's Surge and Mask Liftoff Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 05:51

Policy & Ethics COVID's Outsize Impact on Asian Americans Is Being Ignored Along with Pacific Islanders, they suffer from disproportionately high death rates and hospitalizations and low testing—but their suffering remains invisible By Amy Yee

Space Watching the Universe Expand in Real Time Within a decade or two, we could observe the cosmic expansion, not as a series of snapshots but as a very slow-motion film By Avi Loeb

Environment China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Exceed Those of All Other Developed Countries Combined An ongoing buildout of coal-fired power plants is one big reason By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Space Falling Uncontrolled from Space, Giant Chinese Rocket Highlights Risk of Orbital Debris The Long March 5b rocket's core stage could plummet to Earth as early as May 9 By Leonard David,SPACE.com

Physics Scientists Supersize Quantum Effects with Entangled Drum Duet Two teams have demonstrated new degrees of quantum measurements in micron-sized metal drums By Daniel Garisto

Public Health Coronavirus News Roundup, May 1–May 7 Pandemic highlights for the week By Robin Lloyd

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Global Vaccine Equity Is Much More Important Than 'Vaccine Passports' We need to suppress the level of SARS-CoV-2 in as many humans as possible as quickly as possible By Steven W. Thrasher | April 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "This marks a major shift in US policy in a pro-public-health way." Matthew Kavanagh, global-health researcher at Georgetown University

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