Steven Saus [he/him] @StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com

From 06 Apr: Things We Saw Today: A New HIV Vaccine Trial Shows Promise - And now for some truly good news: a new novel vaccine for HIV has shown promise in initial trials ... https://www.themarysue.com/a-new-hiv-vaccine-trial-shows-promise/ #aids-hiv-activism #covid-vaccine #science #vaccines

From 19 Mar: Alkaline “Real Water” linked to liver failure in kids—and reports are rising - Enlarge / Images of Real Water’s “alkalized“ products, which the FDA now says you sh... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/complaints-mount-after-5-kids-suffer-liver-failure-linked-to-alkaline-water/ #alkaline #liver #ph #poisoning #real-water #science #water

From 10 Mar: COVID herd immunity may be unlikely—winter surges could “become the norm” - Enlarge / Empty vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are seen at a first-come, first-serve drive-th... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/covid-19-could-become-a-persistent-seasonal-plague-experts-warn/ #covid-19 #immunity #infectious-disease #pandemic #public-health #sars-cov-2 #science

From 09 Mar: Russia turns away from NASA, says it will work with China on a Moon base - The heads of the Chinese and Russian space agencies signed an agreement on Tuesday to work togeth... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/china-and-russia-say-they-will-work-together-to-build-a-lunar-station/ #artemis #china #nasa #roscosmos #science

From 27 Feb: Atlantic currents seem to have started fading last century - Enlarge / The Gulf Stream, as imaged from space. The major currents in the Atlantic Ocean help con... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/atlantic-currents-seem-to-have-started-fading-last-century/ #currents #earth-science #gulf-stream #oceanography #science

From 20 Feb: Perseverance Rover Marks Linux’s Journey From Earth To Mars - Another day, another open-source/Linux news but this one’s special. On 30th July 2020, the Pe... https://fossbytes.com/perseverance-rover-linux-os/ #ingenuity #linux #linux-and-open-source-news #nasa #perseverance-rover #science #tech

From 09 Feb: WHO team rejects lab origin of coronavirus, focuses on animals, frozen food - Enlarge / Peter Ben Embarek (R) talks with Liang Wannian (L) during a press conference following a ... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/new-details-emerge-of-how-pandemic-began-who-team-still-eyes-animal-source/ #pandemic #sars-cov-2 #science #virology #who #wuhan

From 08 Feb: Scary 22% vaccine efficacy in South Africa comes with heaps of caveats - Enlarge / Vials in front of the AstraZeneca British biopharmaceutical company logo are seen in this... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/scary-22-vaccine-efficacy-in-south-africa-comes-with-heaps-of-caveats/ #astrazeneca #clinical-trial #coronavirus #covid-19 #pandemic #science #south-africa #vaccine #variants #who

From 05 Feb: Signs that SARS-CoV-2 is evolving to avoid immune responses - Enlarge / The structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Over the summer, you could almost hear a ... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/signs-that-sars-cov-2-is-evolving-to-avoid-immune-responses/ #antibodies #biology #covid-19 #immunology #medicine #sars-cov-2 #science #vaccine #virology

From 26 Jan: How to shut off a quasar - Enlarge / This quasar is over two billion light years away, yet is bright enough to outshine far cl... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/how-to-shut-off-a-quasar/ #astronomy #astrophysics #black-holes #galaxies #quasars #science

From 25 Jan: “I can’t tell you how much vaccine we have,” new CDC head says - Enlarge / A registered nurse practitioner holds up a sign and a flag asking for another patient to ... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/i-cant-tell-you-how-much-vaccine-we-have-new-cdc-head-says/ #cdc #covid-19 #infectious-disease #public-health #science #vaccine

From 23 Sep: Is Knowing Half the Battle? - We seem to have been struggling with science for the past few…well…decades. The C... https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2020/09/23/is-knowing-half-the-battle/ #education #public-opinion #science-technology

From 20 Jan: New metamaterial merges magnetic memory and physical changes - For applications like robotics, there’s usually a clear division of labor between the proces... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/new-metamaterial-merges-magnetic-memory-and-physical-changes/ #materials-science #memory #meta-materials #metamaterials #science

From 14 Jan: The CIA Has Declassified 2,780 Pages of UFO-Related Documents, and They’re Now Free to Download - Everybody knows that UFO stands for “unidentified flying object.” Coined by the United... https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/the-cia-has-declassified-2780-pages-of-ufo-related-documents.html #sci-fi #science

From 31 Dec: The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard’s Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes - I mean, the idea that you would give a psychedelic—in this case, magic mushrooms or the chem... https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/the-golden-guide-to-hallucinogenic-plants-discover-the-illustrated-1977-guide-created-by-the-groundbreaking-ethnobotanist-richard-evan-schultes.html #biology #science

From 19 Nov: Internalized gender-focused attitudes affect health, career prospects - Enlarge / Women in traditional Mosuo clothing. In most societies, there are very easy to quantify ... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/internalized-gender-focused-attitudes-affect-health-career-prospects/ #behavioral-science #engineering #gender #human-behavior #physiology #science

From 15 Nov: The iOS COVID-19 app ecosystem has become a privacy minefield - Enlarge / Around 44 percent of COVID-19 apps on iOS ask for access to the phone’s camera. 32 p... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/the-ios-covid-app-ecosystem-has-become-a-privacy-minefield/ #policy #science

From 13 Nov: Vaccine czar calls on Trump to allow contact with Biden - Enlarge / President Donald Trump listens as Moncef Slaoui, the former head of GlaxoSmithKlines vacc... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/vaccine-czar-calls-on-trump-to-allow-contact-with-biden/ #covid-19 #immunization #policy #project-warp-speed #science #vaccines

From 23 Oct: Huge COVID study finds remdesivir doesn’t work—FDA grants approval anyway - Enlarge / A vial of Remdesivir during a press conference about the start of a study with severely... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/fda-approves-remdesivir-for-covid-19-but-global-study-finds-it-doesnt-work/ #covid-19 #fda #gilead #public-health #remdesivir #science #who

From 01 Nov: Virus Hunters makes a strong case that COVID-19 is just the wake-up call - Enlarge / Scientists around the world are working not just to stamp out the current COVID-19 pand... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/natgeos-virus-hunters-showcases-scientists-racing-to-stop-next-pandemic/ #documentary #ecology #gaming-&-culture #national-geographic-channel #pandemic #science #television #virology