A Single Gene in One Species Can Cause Other Species to Go Extinct

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April 01, 2022

Genetics A Single Gene in One Species Can Cause Other Species to Go Extinct This "keystone" variant of a gene could make or break a food web in an experimental system By Anna Funk

Conservation To Revive a River, Restore Its Liver Radical reconstruction in Seattle is bringing nearly dead urban streams back to productive life By Erica Gies

Public Health Second Boosters, Masks in the Next Wave, and Smart Risk Decisions: COVID Quickly, Episode 27 Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 09:09

Natural Disasters Mysteries Shroud the Cause of Colorado's Worst Wildfire The Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes in December By John Fialka,E&E News

Archaeology Space Archaeology Takes Off An International Space Station project is "one small step" for off-world fieldwork By Megan I. Gannon

Medicine A Simple Solution Would Make COVID Antivirals More Accessible, Pharmacists Say The Biden administration's Test to Treat program aims to make the treatments available at pharmacies, yet it requires a medical provider to prescribe the drugs By Sara Reardon

Diversity Anti-Trans Laws Will Have a Chilling Effect on Medicine I am a future psychiatrist hoping to care for transgender people. But I fear these laws will make it difficult to do so By Ashley Andreou

Genetics Completing the Human Genome Sequence (Again) The Telomere-to-Telomere consortium just sequenced the tricky final 10 percent of the essentially complete human genome By Eric D. Green

Computing Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2: Episode One - The Grasshopper Before she entered a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons, who was Klára von Neumann? By Katie Hafner,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Animals Monarchs Take Generations to Make Annual South-North Journey Citizen science data reveal how the declining species travels from its southern wintering site to its northern breeding grounds By Katie Peek

Animals Honeybee Parasites Have Record-Breaking Clinginess Small flies' extreme clamping feet let them walk on a flying bee By Gary Hartley

Natural Disasters California Braces for Another Cataclysmic Wildfire Season Blazes burned more than 3 million acres last year—nearly the size of Connecticut By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Beaver Dams Help Wildfire-Ravaged Ecosystems Recover Long after Flames Subside Dams mop up debris that would otherwise kill fish and other downstream wildlife, new observations suggest By Isobel Whitcomb | February 2022

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Showing that a single gene can actually reorganize ecological networks is a really neat example of what happens when you put genetics and cutting-edge ecological research together." Rachel Germain, biodiversity scientist at the University of British Columbia

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