Long-Haul COVID Cases Could Spike after Latest Wave

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February 03, 2022

Public Health Long-Haul COVID Cases Could Spike after Latest Wave The huge number of Omicron infections could add a lot more people with disabling long-term symptoms. Vaccinations could blunt the impact By Melinda Wenner Moyer

Space Exploration NASA Plans a Fiery End for the International Space Station by 2031 The space agency has announced the timing of the ISS’s demise as part of a long-planned transition to private orbital outposts By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Climate Change Extreme Heat Becomes New Normal for Oceans Once rare marine heat waves have become routine, threatening coral reefs and other sea creatures By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

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Black Holes Astronomers Find First-Ever Rogue Black Hole Adrift in the Milky Way Weighing in at seven times the mass of our sun, the dark object is by far the best-yet candidate for a free-floating stellar-mass black hole By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Health Care Agonizing Cough of Croup Rising in Kids with COVID The omicron variant appears to be creating more cases in small children By Joanna Thompson

Vaccines COVID Vaccines Can Be Safe for People with Prior Allergic Reactions My colleagues and I use a protocol to inoculate safely, and the CDC needs to revise its recommendations By Charles Feng

Evolution A Strange Creature Discards Genes to Make a Better Heart The sea squirt relative demonstrates that sometimes less is more: losing genes can be adaptive By Viviane Callier

Language What Is the Shape of This Word? What shape do you see when you hear “bouba”? What about “kiki”? It turns out that nonsense words that evoke certain shapes have something to say about the origins of language. By Karen Hopkin | 06:12

Quantum Physics Does Quantum Mechanics Reveal That Life Is But a Dream? A radical quantum hypothesis casts doubt on objective reality By John Horgan

Evolution Junk DNA Deforms Salamander Bodies Yet the unfit creatures survive, challenging our long-held view of evolution By Douglas Fox

Renewable Energy U.S. Project Reaches Major Milestone toward Practical Fusion Power In a world first, the National Ignition Facility has generated a “burning plasma,” a fusion reaction on the cusp of being self-sustaining By Philip Ball

Planetary Science Earth Has a New Asteroid Companion, but Not for Long The Trojan asteroid 2020 XL5 is projected to linger in our planet’s vicinity for the next 4,000 years By Chelsea Gohd,SPACE.com

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FROM THE ARCHIVE New Long-Haul COVID Clinics Treat Mysterious and Ongoing Symptoms Coordinating care among different specialties could help patients with many problems and no proved therapies By Melba Newsome | June 2021

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