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Dr. Jennifer Lotz, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, was recently elected a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a fellow is a lifetime honor bestowed upon select AAAS members by their peers for their efforts to advance science or its applications.

Solving the puzzle of Long Covid | Science

Long Covid provides an opportunity to understand how acute infections cause chronic disease

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Have you noticed the trees around you lately—maybe they seem extra nutty? It turns out this is a “masting” year, when trees make more nuts, seeds, and pinecones than usual. Science Staff Writer Elizabeth Pennisi joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the many mysteries of masting years.

Next, Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Jean-Laurent Casanova, a professor at Rockefeller University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, about his review article on why some people are more vulnerable to severe disease from viral infections. This is part of a special issue on inflammation in Science.

The front covers (and contents!) of science news magazines are intriguing any time of year, but especially when transitioning from one year to the next.  

Editors, artists, and photojournalists put together issues that highlight the biggest stories of the year, celebrate achievements and forecast the next big breakthrough, and tantalize with headlines that suggest findings to delight the most curious reader.  

Above:  New Scientist Dec. 18-31, 2021

Just three headlines on this issue of Science News hint at the wide range of topics covered in every issue: hope in the pandemic; shrinking birds; finger snap physics (say what?).

A new year often inspires us to focus on a healthy diet, and New Scientist picks up on that by explaining that a “self-indulgent mindset is key to diet success.”  Sounds promising!

Science, the highly-respected, "premier global science weekly” from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is fully accessible online, in a very satisfying format for web-based browsing.