The Supreme Court's Assault on Science

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May 24, 2021

Policy & Ethics The Supreme Court's Assault on Science A recent decision making it easier to sentence children to life without parole ignores what we know about the prefrontal cortex By Daniel Weinberger

Evolution New Process Helps Unscramble Dinosaur Boneyard Chaos Piecing together a paleontological puzzle By Riley Black

Natural Disasters Congo's Mount Nyiragongo Volcano Erupts, Sending Thousands Fleeing The peak is one of the world's most active volcanoes, last erupting in 2002 By Jeanna Bryner,LiveScience

Climate Yellowstone is Warming at Its Fastest Rate in 1,250 Years The summer of 2016 was the hottest in the nation's first and oldest national park since 770 By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Policy & Ethics Modi Is Worsening the Suffering from India's Pandemic An authoritarian apparatus is being turned on wider society with lethal consequences By Chitrangada Choudhury

Biology Can a Cell Make Decisions? A series of experiments shows, remarkably, that it just might By Jennifer Frazer

Space How to Avoid a Cosmic Catastrophe An interstellar treaty with other advanced civilizations could stave off death by domain wall By Avi Loeb

Public Health Should Your Child Get the COVID Vaccine? A pediatric infectious disease expert answers questions about whether the vaccine is safe, and why children need it By Debbie-Ann Shirley,The Conversation US

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

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

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Brain Scans Reveal Why Rewards and Punishments Don't Seem to Work on Teenagers One aspect of risk behavior in adolescents appears to be an apparent inability to match their behavior to the likely rewards (or punishments) that might follow By Gina Rippon,The Conversation US | November 2017

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