This Valuable COVID Treatment Doesn't Work against New Variants

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January 03, 2023

Pharmaceuticals A Valuable COVID Drug Doesn't Work against New Variants Current monoclonal antibodies fail against COVID virus variants, so drugmakers want to use a fast-track test for new ones By Charles Schmidt

Psychology The Best New Year's Resolution Might Be to Just Let Go of an Unfulfilled Life Goal Leaving aside a cherished objective may benefit psychological and even physical health By Francine Russo

Climate Change Financial Firms May Have to Reveal their Climate Risk And public companies may have to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, if regulators finalize proposed rules By Avery Ellfeldt,E&E News

Animals Storm-Chasing Seabirds Ride Out Hurricanes from Inside Streaked shearwaters head deep into hurricanes to avoid crash landings By Jesse Greenspan

Biochemistry Lab-Made Motors Could Move and Glow in Cells Minuscule motor molecules could emit light as they journey into cells By Rachel Berkowitz

Psychology Your Response to Stress Improves as You Grow Older In good news, our reactions to stressful events improve as we age. But living in uncertain times will still take a toll By Daisy Yuhas

Animals Your Cats Can Tell When You're Speaking to Them Felines recognize their owners' cat-directed baby talk By Tanya Lewis

Microbiology Electric Countdown Tells Sleeping Spores When to Wake Up Do sleeping spores dream of electric sheep? By Elise Cutts

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 3

FROM THE ARCHIVE Pandemic-Era Research Will Pay Off for Years The COVID research infrastructure will help fight all sorts of pathogens By Britt Glaunsinger | March 2022

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We're at a point now where we can say that the capacity to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 correlates with protection against COVID disease in the real world." Robert Carnahan, a microbiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

WHAT WE'RE READING Starting Off the New Year Without a Smartphone Without being too sanctimonious about it. By Christopher Schaberg | Slate | Jan. 1, 2023

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