Why Deadly 'Black Fungus' Is Ravaging COVID Patients in India

Trouble viewing? View in your browser. View all Scientific American publications.

    

May 28, 2021

Public Health Why Deadly 'Black Fungus' Is Ravaging COVID Patients in India Standard treatments such as steroids, as well as illnesses such as diabetes, make the fungal infection worse By Maryn McKenna

Math The Top Unsolved Questions in Mathematics Remain Mostly Mysterious Just one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems named 21 years ago has been solved By Rachel Crowell

Environment Struggling Seabirds Are Red Flag for Ocean Health These sentinels of marine ecosystems point to the damage climate change, overfishing and other human pressures are causing By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Biology Can a Cell Remember? Surprisingly, there’s some evidence that it can By Jennifer Frazer

Policy & Ethics We're Overlooking a Major Culprit in the Opioid Crisis Pharmaceutical companies and drug dealers have been part of the problem—but so have policy makers By Maia Szalavitz

Evolution Bats on Helium Reveal an Innate Sense of the Speed of Sound A new experiment shows that bats are born with a fixed reference for the speed of sound—and living in lighter air can throw it off. By Karen Hopkin | 04:18

EARTH The World's Northernmost Town Is Changing Dramatically Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard By Gloria Dickie

Conservation Will Probiotics Save Corals or Harm Them? Bacteria are helping corals in lab tests, but risks rise as treatments are applied in the wild By Elizabeth Svoboda

Public Health Divisive COVID 'Lab Leak' Debate Prompts Dire Warnings from Researchers Allegations that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab make it harder for nations to collaborate on ending the pandemic—and fuel online bullying—some scientists say By Amy Maxmen,Nature magazine

Policy & Ethics Limit on Lab-Grown Human Embryos Dropped by Stem Cell Body The International Society for Stem Cell Research relaxed the famous 14-day rule on culturing human embryos in its latest research guidelines By Nidhi Subbaraman,Nature magazine

Space Are We Doing Enough to Protect Earth from Asteroids? Scientists lost one of their best tools with the demise of the Arecibo telescope By Sarah Scoles

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 30, Issue 2s

ADVERTISEMENT

FROM THE ARCHIVE India's Massive COVID Surge Puzzles Scientists The virus is spreading faster than ever before in the country despite previous high infection rates in megacities, which should have conferred some protection By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine | April 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "There was no fungus in the first wave [of COVID]...The black fungus has painted the country red in the second wave." S. P. Kalantri, professor of medicine at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences

LATEST ISSUES

Questions?   Comments?

Download the Scientific American App

To view this email as a web page, go here. You received this email because you opted-in to receive email from Scientific American. To ensure delivery please add news@email.scientificamerican.com to your address book. Unsubscribe     Manage Email Preferences     Privacy Policy     Contact Us