New Studies Support Wuhan Market as Pandemic's Origin Point

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February 28, 2022

Epidemiology New Studies Support Wuhan Market as Pandemic's Origin Point Report authors say that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 jumped from animals sold at the market into people twice in late 2019—but some scientists want more definitive evidence By Amy Maxmen,Nature magazine

Climate Change With 'Limited Amount of Time Left,' New IPCC Report Urges Climate Adaptation Human and natural systems are already buckling under the influence of global warming, write the authors of a landmark report By Chelsea Harvey,Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Epidemiology What Is a Vaccinated Person's Risk of Dying from COVID? Vaccination definitely lowers the odds, but the exact answer is hard to find By Lisa Miller,The Conversation US

Anthropology Ancient Peoples Teach Us That We Can Create a Better World A radical retelling of civilization's origins leads to an expansive vision of human possibility By John Horgan

Neuroscience Researchers Make a Phantom Sixth Finger Grow and Shrink An unsettling illusion points to both philosophy and robotics By Matthew Hutson

Renewable Energy Three Fixes to Build Energy Projects Cleaner and Faster Modernize the way we regulate clean energy construction to reach net-zero carbon emission goals By Rich Powell

Health Care A Faster Way to Find Good Medical Treatments Is Gaining Ground A type of clinical trial that tests many therapies at once is being used for COVID and Alzheimer's By Claudia Wallis

Creativity Cowboy Culture Doesn't Have a Monopoly on Innovation Despite stereotypes that suggest self-reliant values lead to the most innovations, group-centered societies have just as much creativity By Thomas Talhelm

Climate Change New Nuclear Power Plants Are Unlikely to Stop the Climate Crisis These plants take too long to build and bring online, and we don't have that much time By Naomi Oreskes

Arts A Reverse Journey through Geologic Time, a Tale of Wild Horses and Interspecies Kinship, and More Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American By Amy Brady

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Closest Known Relatives of Virus Behind COVID-19 Found in Laos Studies of bats in China and Laos show southeast Asia is a hotspot for potentially dangerous viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine | September 2021

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