Chewing Gum with GMO Could Reduce the Spread of COVID

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February 24, 2022

Pharmaceuticals Chewing Gum with GMO Could Reduce the Spread of COVID Gum carrying a protein produced by genetically modified lettuce traps SARS-CoV-2 By Abdullah Iqbal

Policy Why Anti-Trans Laws Are Anti-Science Bills that restrict access to gender-affirming health care ignore research By The Editors

Public Health COVID Still Threatens Millions of Immunocompromised People People who suffer from diseases or take treatments that leave them highly vulnerable to COVID fear being left behind as the country drops pandemic restrictions By Victoria Knight,Kaiser Health News

Space Exploration China Plans Asteroid Missions, Space Telescopes and a Moon Base In the next five years, the nation hopes to launch a robotic craft to an asteroid, two lunar missions and an orbital observatory By Elizabeth Gibney,Nature magazine

Engineering The Culture of Engineering Overlooks the People It's Supposed to Serve We must start teaching undergraduates to think about those for whom they design By Grace Wickerson

Dinosaurs 'Frozen in Place' Fossils Reveal Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Struck in Spring Clues to the season of impact lingered in delicate fish fossils By Mindy Weisberger,LiveScience

Fossil Fuels U.S. Postal Service Locks in Plans for More Gas Trucks The move underscores the challenges facing President Biden's goal to convert all of the federal government's vehicles to zero-emissions models By David Iaconangelo,E&E News

Climate Change The Supreme Court Could Block Climate Change Protections West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency could have far-reaching impacts for health and the environment By Rachel Cleetus

Policy The Pandemic Showed the Promise of Cities with Fewer Cars Residents learned what was possible. Some politicians fought to keep it that way By Andrea Thompson

Climate Change We're No More Serious about the Climate Crisis Than We Were before the Pandemic Emergency managers are stuck reacting to a constant march of disasters By Samantha Montano

Neuroscience How the Brain Curbs Overeating A structure known as the cerebellum acts as a brake on consumption By Diana Kwon

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