Electrodes That Stimulate the Brain Reveal the Roots of Conscious Experience

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June 16, 2021

Neuroscience Electrodes That Stimulate the Brain Reveal the Roots of Conscious Experience Applying electric currents reveals the function of varying brain regions and helps to alleviate neurological disorders By Christof Koch

Public Health COVAX Effort to Vaccinate the World Is Faltering The international collaboration does not have enough COVID vaccine doses to meet its goals, so wealthy countries must step up to fill the gap By Sara Reardon

Public Health Labor Department Issues Emergency Rules to Protect Health Care Workers From COVID The new rules would require employers to notify workers of possible exposure to the disease and to report deaths or hospitalizations to the government By Christina Jewett,Kaiser Health News

EARTH Don't Worry about CO2, Worry about the Earth's 'Energy Balance' The "most fundamental" climate metric takes a troubling turn By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Public Health The COVID Lab-Leak Hypothesis: What Scientists Do and Do Not Know An examination of the arguments that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China and the science behind them By Amy Maxmen,Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Medicine A Better Way to Pay for Health Care Fee-for-service models, as in the U.S., and single-payer models like the U.K.'s and Canada's both have significant flaws—but Singapore may have found a workable compromise  By James Breiding

Evolution Animal Kids Listen to Their Parents Even before Birth Human children: please take note of the behavior of prebirth zebra finches By Karen Hopkin | 05:01

Policy & Ethics The Reason Some Republicans Mistrust Science: Their Leaders Tell Them To GOP officials have been denigrating the government, including government scientists, for decades By Naomi Oreskes

Physics Can Science Survive the Death of the Universe? Three physicists envision ways in which the quest for knowledge can last forever By John Horgan

Evolution Human Evolution Led to an Extreme Thirst for Water We are more dependent on water than many other mammals and have developed a host of clever strategies for obtaining it By Asher Y. Rosinger

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