Investigating Antidepressants' Surprising Effect on COVID Deaths

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November 12, 2021

Pharmaceuticals Investigating Antidepressants' Surprising Effect on COVID Deaths Researchers are still puzzling over what this drug does at the molecular level to help COVID patients By Esther Landhuis

Behavior Personality Type, as well as Politics, Predicts Who Shares Fake News Highly impulsive people who lean conservative are more likely to share false news stories. They have a desire to create chaos and won't be deterred by fact-checkers By Asher Lawson,Hemant Kakkar

Oceans Half of the World's Coastal Sewage Pollution Flows from Few Dozen Places An analysis of roughly 135,000 watersheds reveals that large amounts of key pollutants come from human wastewater, not just agricultural runoff By Nikk Ogasa

Memory How Certain Gestures Help You Learn New Words Researchers used headsets that release disruptive magnetic pulses to study how motor brain areas contribute to the effect By Christiane Gelitz

Policy Some Electronics Repairs Are Illegal: Federal Law Could Change That The U.S. Copyright Office has helped, but fixing the right to repair is now up to Congress By Kyle Wiens

Climate Change Adaptation Becomes Focus of Climate Summit as Talks Draw to a Close Divisions between richer and poorer nations have widened By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Dinosaurs Flocking Together May Have Helped Dinosaurs Dominate the Earth A fossil bed in Patagonia provides evidence of complex social structure in dinosaurs as early as 193 million years ago. And scientists say that herding behavior could have been key to the beasts' success. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:31

Animals Genes Reveal How Some Rockfish Live Up to 200 Years Scientists surveyed dozens of species' genomes to uncover keys to longevity By Jack Tamisiea

Diversity This Engineer, Actor and Science Communicator Is Giving Science Its Rap Maynard Okereke is using his distinctive voice to fight the lack of minority representation in STEM By Devin Williams

Geology New Mineral Discovered in Deep-Earth Diamond The surprising find has never shown up in nature before and reveals secrets about the earth's mantle By Stephanie Pappas

Epidemiology This COVID Winter May Cause Fewer Deaths yet Still Bring a Surge This year is unlikely to see as many severe cases as last year, but relaxed restrictions and a patchwork of vaccination could still mean trouble, experts warn By Marla Broadfoot

Archaeology Dozens of Shipwreck Discoveries Anticipated in New Marine Sanctuary A federal designation could help yield 3-D models that are useful for finding, studying and conserving vessels on the bed of Lake Michigan By Jennifer Nalewicki

Climate Change 'The Whole Place Feels Wrong': Voices across America on What the Climate Crisis Stole In the six years since the Paris Agreement, the climate crisis has caused catastrophes and slow transformations of familiar landscapes, upending lives everywhere By The Guardian

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Common Antidepressant Slashes Risk of COVID Death Fluvoxamine is both inexpensive and highly effective at preventing mild COVID-19 from turning severe By Saima May Sidik,Nature magazine | November 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Drugs don't know what their original indicated purpose was, they just do what they do, and they don't usually do only one thing." Angela Reiersen, child psychiatrist at Washington University in St. Louis

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