COVID Vaccines plus Infection Can Lead to Months of Immunity

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April 08, 2022

Vaccines COVID Vaccines plus Infection Can Lead to Months of Immunity New research counters high-profile claims that people who had COVID don't benefit from vaccination By Saima May Sidik,Nature magazine

Neuroscience Your Brain Expands and Shrinks over Time: These Charts Show How Researchers hope they could one day be used as a routine clinical tool by physicians. By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Space Exploration Ax-1, First Private Crewed Space Station Mission, Launches Successfully Axiom Space's visit to the International Space Station is a milestone for commercial human spaceflight By Chelsea Gohd,SPACE.com

Microbiology Ancient Molecule Helps Bacteria Untangle Genetic Activity New studies reveal the complex world of bacterial epigenetics By Carrie Arnold

Climate Change Digital Earth "Twins" Could Help Address Climate Change Researchers hope they could one day be used as a routine clinical tool by physicians By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Politics India's Inadvertent Missile Launch Underscores the Risk of Accidental Nuclear Warfare Complex weapon systems are inherently prone to accidents, and this latest launch is one of a long history of military accidents in India By Zia Mian,M. V. Ramana

Oceans Probiotics Could Help Save Overheated Coral Think of it as a kind of marine fecal transplant—except the restorative bacteria do not come from stool, they come from other corals. By Sarah Vitak | 06:28

Climate Change New IPCC Report Looks at Neglected Element of Climate Action: People For the first time, the report includes a chapter devoted to the social aspects of climate mitigation By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Computing Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 2: Women Needed Klára Dán von Neumann arrives in Princeton, N.J., just as war breaks out in Europe By Katie Hafner,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Inequality Colonialism Casts a Shadow on Fossil Science Paleontologists from a small number of countries control much of the world's fossil data By Clara Moskowitz,Youyou Zhou

Ecology Gazelle Traveled Distance of Nearly Half Earth's Circumference in Five Years Maps of the journey show the importance of conserving vast, unfenced landscapes to aid the survival of Mongolian gazelles By Robin Lloyd

Mental Health We Need Better Diagnostic Tests for Autism in Women Diagnostic criteria are developed using white boys and men, failing to serve many neurodivergent girls and women By Zhara Astra

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FROM THE ARCHIVE 'Breakthrough' Infections Do Not Mean COVID Vaccines Are Failing Getting flu again postinoculation is more common than a return case after a COVID shot By Emily Willingham | August 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Vaccination following infection, or infection following vaccination, results in particularly robust antibody responses." Dan Barouch, virologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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