Mix-and-Match COVID Vaccines Trigger Potent Immune Response

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May 21, 2021

Medicine Mix-and-Match COVID Vaccines Trigger Potent Immune Response Preliminary results from a trial of more than 600 people are the first to show the benefits of combining different vaccines By Ewen Callaway,Nature magazine

Climate 'Whitest White' Paint Beats the Heat A new nanomaterial mixture lets surfaces release more heat than they absorb By Sophie Bushwick

Climate Biden Executive Order Targets Climate Financial Risks The directive charges federal agencies with assessing the potential economic toll of warming and urging regulators to it By Avery Ellfeldt,E&E News

Conservation Cuba's Economic Isolation Protected Its Environment The island nation has fewer nonnative plants than other Caribbean islands By Meghan Brown,Jeffrey Corbin

Public Health COVID, Quickly, Episode 7: The Coming Pandemic Grief Wave, and Mask Whiplash 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 | 07:03

Cognition You Don't Have to Start Young to Be a Great Musician A new study refutes the idea that there is a critical learning period in childhood By Cindi May

Public Health Coronavirus News Roundup, May 8–May 21 Pandemic highlights for the past two weeks By Robin Lloyd

Public Health Math and Sleuthing Help to Explain Epidemics of the Past One mathematician has spend decades uncovering the deadly calculations of pestilence and plague, sometimes finding data that were hiding in plain sight. By Emily Schwing | 07:30

EARTH World's Largest Iceberg Breaks Off of Antarctica The chunk of ice is larger than the state of Rhode Island By Ben Turner,LiveScience

Wellness The Global Iron-Deficiency Crisis Some two billion people don't get enough of this essential mineral in their diets By Sharman Apt Russell

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Delaying a COVID Vaccine's Second Dose Boosts Immune Response in the Elderly People older than 80 who waited 11 to 12 weeks for their second jab had higher peak antibody levels than did those who waited only three weeks By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine | May 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "I do think there's a brave new world of vaccinology to be scoped in all of this." Daniel Altmann, immunologist at Imperial College London

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