A Possible Link between 'Oumuamua and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

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June 22, 2021

Space A Possible Link between 'Oumuamua and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena If some UAP turn out to be extraterrestrial technology, they could be dropping sensors for a subsequent craft to tune into. What if 'Oumuamua is such a craft? By Avi Loeb

Biology Gray Hair Can Return to Its Original Color--and Stress Is Involved, of Course The universal marker of aging is not always a one-way process By Diana Kwon

Climate Climate Change Could Fuel the Spread of a Flesh-Eating Parasite Scientists caution that as the planet warms, more Americans could be exposed to varieties of the Leishmania parasite By Agostino Petroni,Undark

Medicine CureVac COVID Vaccine Let-down Spotlights mRNA Design Challenges Scientists are searching for explanations to disappointing final-stage trial results. These insights could help guide the future development of mRNA vaccines By Elie Dolgin,Nature magazine

Environment Trees Are Missing in Low-income Neighborhoods More tree cover would lower disproportionately high levels of heat and pollution By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Biology What Is CRISPR, and Why Is It So Important? This revolutionary gene-editing system has taken science by storm. By Michael Tabb,Andrea Gawrylewski,Jeffery DelViscio

Medical & Biotech Artificial Proteins Never Seen in the Natural World Are Becoming New COVID Vaccines and Medicines Researchers have begun to crack the code of protein structure, allowing them to remake, well, everything By Rowan Jacobsen

Public Health These Videos Could Boost COVID Vaccination Rates Creators on social media platforms significantly extend the reach of coronavirus and vaccine information By Grant Currin

Conservation The Tragedy of the White Tiger The animals are vastly more common in captivity than in the wild—the result of inbreeding that's good for pulling in gawkers but bad for the big cats themselves By Azzedine Downes

Space Maybe the Aliens Really Are Here But if so, it's probably in the form of robotic probes—something both UFO enthusiasts and SETI scientists should be able to agree on By John Gertz

Public Health Children's Birthdays May Have Spread COVID Infections The risk of infection increased by up to 30 percent or so among people with observances in the first 10 months of 2020 By Rachel Nuwer

Public Health New Coronavirus Variants Are Urgently Being Tracked around the World Genomic sequencing efforts are limited in developing countries, but scientists are mobilizing to help By Charles Schmidt

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FROM THE ARCHIVE 6 Strange Facts about the Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua By Abraham Loeb | November 2018

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We should be open-minded to the possibility that science will one day reveal a reality that was previously considered as fiction." Avi Loeb, astrophysicist

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