Science Times: Saving Wildlife with an Internet of Animals

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View in browser|nytimes.com Continue reading the main story June 9, 2020 A. Gerst/ESA/NASA   With an Internet of Animals, Scientists Aim to Track and Save Wildlife Using tiny sensors and equipment aboard the space station, a project called ICARUS seeks to revolutionize animal tracking. By Jim Robbins Kwangshin Kim/Science Source   A Living Library Filled With Killer Bacteria Britain’s National Collection of Type Cultures, a library of human bacterial pathogens, turned 100 this year. By Jennifer Pinkowski Randall Munroe   Good Question Can You Boil an Egg Too Long? You’ve had six-minute eggs, maybe slow-cooked eggs. Now try an egg cooked forever. By Randall Munroe M. Espinasse et al./Université de Paris/CXC/NASA   Out There Watch This Black Hole Blow Bubbles A black hole was seen shooting electrified gas and energy into space. Each blob contained about 400 million billion pounds of matter. By Dennis Overbye Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute   The Sea’s Weirdest Creatures, Now in ‘Staggering’ Detail With a new laser-scanning tool, marine biologists are getting a fine-comb look at some of the gloopiest and most mysterious organisms in the ocean. By William J. Broad Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Email us Let us know how we’re doing at sciencenewsletter@nytimes.com. THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Kevin Lamarque/Reuters   How to Navigate Your Community Reopening? Remember the Four C’s Close contact, confined spaces, crowds, choices — these are the considerations to ponder now. By Roni Caryn Rabin Eve Edelheit for The New York Times   When 511 Epidemiologists Expect to Fly, Hug and Do 18 Other Everyday Activities Again Even experts need to make personal decisions about what risks are worth it in the age of coronavirus. For some, life will never be the same again. By Margot Sanger-Katz, Claire Cain Miller and Quoctrung Bui John Locher/Associated Press   Two Huge Covid-19 Studies Are Retracted After Scientists Sound Alarms The reports, published in two leading journals, were retracted after authors could not verify an enormous database of medical records. By Roni Caryn Rabin and Ellen Gabler Fadl AbuZaid/Picture Alliance, via Getty Images   Coronavirus Rips Into Regions Previously Spared As the West settles into a grinding battle with the disease, the virus surges across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and South Asia. By Declan Walsh CDC, via Science Source   Genes May Leave Some People More Vulnerable to Severe Covid-19 Geneticists have turned up intriguing links between DNA and the disease. Patients with Type A blood, for example, seem to be at greater risk. By Carl Zimmer Erin Schaff/The New York Times   The C.D.C. Waited ‘Its Entire Existence for This Moment.’ What Went Wrong? The technology was old, the data poor, the bureaucracy slow, the guidance confusing, the administration not in agreement. The coronavirus shook the world’s premier health agency, creating a loss of confidence and hampering the U.S. response to the crisis. By Eric Lipton, Abby Goodnough, Michael D. Shear, Megan Twohey, Apoorva Mandavilli, Sheri Fink and Mark Walker Jim Wilson/The New York Times   The New Old Age Navigating Home Care During the Pandemic For the several million older Americans being cared for at home, the coronavirus brings new challenges. By Paula Span Katie Orlinsky for The New York Times   Testing Nursing Home Workers Can Help Stop Coronavirus. But Who Should Pay? A patchwork of state and U.S. recommendations has hampered efforts to devise a uniform policy, leading to disputes over whether insurers or employers should cover testing costs. 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By Kenneth Chang Phil Degginger/Landsat/NASA, via Alamy   Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’ Will Be Large This Summer, Scientists Predict The low-oxygen zone can cause harm not just to marine life, but also to those who catch shrimp and fish for their livelihood. By John Schwartz Scott Reinhard/The New York Times   ‘Going in the Wrong Direction’: More Tropical Forest Loss in 2019 Brazil was responsible for more than a third of the total global loss in 2019. By Henry Fountain CLIMATE CHANGE Tony Cenicola/The New York Times   Don’t Thank the Virus for Saving the Climate Yet There are lessons to be learned — and some benefits already — but it’s complicated. (Of course!) By Tatiana Schlossberg Chris Stewart/Associated Press   ‘Like Trash in a Landfill’: Carbon Dioxide Keeps Piling Up in the Atmosphere Levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide reached another record in May, the month when they normally peak. By Henry Fountain Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT HEALTH Scott Olson/Getty Images   Red Cross Warns of a ‘Staggering’ Drop in Blood Supplies Hospitals have resumed elective surgeries and many Americans are venturing out of their homes again, but the rate of donations has yet to bounce back. By Christopher Flavelle Erin Kirkland for The New York Times   Disordered Eating in a Disordered Time Social isolation and unstructured days add to the anxiety of those struggling to achieve a healthy relationship with food. By Emma Goldberg Misha Friedman for The New York Times   E.R. Visits Drop Sharply During Pandemic People even with heart problems are avoiding emergency rooms because they are worried about possible coronavirus infection, according to a C.D.C. report. By Reed Abelson Lucas Jackson/Reuters   First-Time Gun Owners at Risk for Suicide, Major Study Confirms Men were eight times as likely to kill themselves by gunshot than non-owners. Women were 35 times as likely. 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