Evaluating COVID Risk on Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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November 20, 2020

Public Health Evaluating COVID Risk on Planes, Trains and Automobiles Stay safer on different forms of transportation By Sophie Bushwick,Tanya Lewis,Amanda Montañez

Mental Health Vision and Breathing May Be the Secrets to Surviving 2020 Stanford neurobiologist Andrew Huberman discusses the two things we can always control, even during a high-stress election and scary COVID pandemic By Jessica Wapner

Public Health Mysteries of COVID Smell Loss Finally Yield Some Answers Explanations begin to arise at the molecular level for this vexing but commonplace symptom By Stephani Sutherland

Space Legendary Arecibo Telescope Will Close Forever, and Scientists Are Reeling A new satellite image reveals the damage that shut down the facility, ending an era in astronomical observation By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Climate Biden Stocks Transition Teams with Climate Experts The president-elect has included those with climate experience across a wide swath of federal agencies By Adam Aton,Jean Chemnick,E&E News

Public Health Vaping Industry Echoes Big Tobacco's Misleading Call for Science To understand the battle over e-cigarettes, one must look to history—and big tobacco By Kit R. Roane,Jeffery DelViscio,Kelso Harper

Climate Otters Show How Predators Can Blunt Climate Damage Understanding the full impacts of warming requires factoring in the complexity of ecosystems By Nancy Averett

Chemistry A Butterfly's Brilliant Blue Wings Lead to Less Toxic Paint A phenomenon known as structural color could be translated to a range of commercial products By Meg Wilcox

Medicine The COVID Cold Chain: How a Vaccine Will Get to You A vaccine logistics expert explains how millions of frozen vials will be widely distributed By Mark Fischetti

Medicine Your Tears Might Save Your Life Someday They could ultimately be used to find diseases the way blood tests do now—but cheaper and more easily By Anis Barmada

Policy & Ethics 10 Steps That Can Restore Scientific Integrity in Government Here's what the Biden-Harris administration can do to repair the damage Trump has done By Lauren Kurtz,Gretchen Goldman

Public Health Dating during the Pandemic: Can You Trust an 'Antibody Positive' Claim? Testing positive for COVID antibodies is not a pass to date freely By Michelle Konstantinovsky

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BRING SCIENCE HOME Math Fun with a Perimeter Magic Triangle Count your pennies! Learn a fun puzzle to test your quick computation skills--and see if you can find new strategies for getting speedy solutions.  Credit: George Retseck Do you ever use math as a tool to solve interesting problems? In the 1970s math was often taught with simple worksheets. One teacher was looking for a way to help his students have more fun with math and logic. So he developed what is now known as the perimeter magic triangle puzzles. Try them out—and have some fun as you start thinking about counting in a whole new way!

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