Weekly headlines (excerpts)

1. Artificial intelligence could help biologists classify the world’s tiny creatures
By Elizabeth Pennisi | Fri, 04 Jun 2021 

2. Scientists evolve a fungus to battle deadly honey bee parasite
By Erik Stokstad | Fri, 04 Jun 2021 

3. Tragic spring surge leads India to crank up coronavirus vaccine effort
By Joel Goldberg | Fri, 04 Jun 2021 

4. New approach to rewriting bacteria’s genetic code could lead to novel medicines
By Robert F. Service | Thu, 03 Jun 2021 

5. New internet woven from ‘spooky’ quantum links could supercharge science and commerce
By Gabriel Popkin | Thu, 03 Jun 2021 

6. Venus can’t wait—NASA plans blockbuster return to hothouse neighbor
By Paul Voosen | Wed, 02 Jun 2021 

7. Applied research gets starring role in Biden’s 2022 budget
By Jeffrey Mervis | Tue, 01 Jun 2021 

8. Brazilian town experiment shows mass vaccination can wipe out COVID-19
By Sofia Moutinho | Tue, 01 Jun 2021 

9. Giant diamonds may hold the key to superdeep earthquakes
By Sid Perkins | Tue, 01 Jun 2021 

10. Israel reports link between rare cases of heart inflammation and COVID-19 vaccination in young men
By Gretchen Vogel | Tue, 01 Jun 2021 

11. To study swarming cicadas, it takes a crowd
By Ian Graber-Stiehl | Tue, 01 Jun 2021 

12. This homely mollusk’s rock-hard chompers are made of rare minerals
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 

First Release

[Thu 3rd Jun 2021] 

Skull and vertebral bone marrow are myeloid cell reservoirs for the meninges and CNS parenchyma
Andrea Cugurra

MBD5 and MBD6 couple DNA methylation to gene silencing through the J-domain protein SILENZIO
Lucia Ichino

Fe-S cofactors in the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase are potential antiviral targets
Nunziata Maio

Heterogeneity of meningeal B cells reveals a lymphopoietic niche at the CNS borders
Simone Brioschi

Estimating epidemiologic dynamics from cross-sectional viral load distributions
James A. Hay