Quick Take

• The Country That Used the Most Drugs to Bring in 2021 Amid coronavirus restrictions in most of the world, one country stood apart in consuming new psychoactive substances at New Year celebrations as 2020 changed to 2021.
  Quick Take, December 07, 2021
• Geneticists Have Reduced Use of the Term 'Race' in Papers The decline of the word in papers on human genetics reflects a growing understanding of race as a social construct. But other trends may point to uncertainty about how to discuss different populations.
  Quick Take, December 06, 2021
• Tampons and Pads Should Be Free in Schools, Students Say In the absence of legislation requiring access to menstruation products in schools, students are campaigning and fundraising to make them freely available in school restrooms.
  Quick Take, December 03, 2021
• The Healthy and Sustainable Diet We Should All Be Eating How can we meet the dual concerns of ensuring that people around the world get the nutrients they need and that we build a more sustainable industrialized food system? Scientists are working on it.
  Quick Take, December 02, 2021
• High Cost of Professional Degrees Leave Many With Unpayable Debt Many nonmedical professional degrees, such as in dentistry and veterinary medicine, leave students with large amounts of debt, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of federal data.
  Quick Take, December 01, 2021
• Camera the Size of a Grain of Salt Creates High-Res Images Researchers unveil an ultracompact camera with the widest field of view and highest-quality images of any camera of its design to date.
  Quick Take, November 30, 2021
• HCWs With Long COVID Report Doubt, Disbelief From Colleagues A number of healthcare workers suffering symptoms of long COVID have been surprised at the difficulties they have faced seeking treatment.
  Quick Take, November 29, 2021
• The Wild Turkeys Menacing US Towns Once the aim of a country-wide conservation effort, wild turkey populations have ballooned in urban and suburban areas, leading to some altercations with human residents.
  Quick Take, November 24, 2021
• Can COVID Test Kits Measure the Oral Microbiome? Saliva-based tests may preserve more than the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2, research shows.
  Quick Take, November 23, 2021
• A Vaccine by Any Other Name: Behind COVID Vax Brand Names The brand names for the COVID-19 vaccines have yet to catch on in common parlance. Why?
  Quick Take, November 22, 2021
• Documentary Asks How Body-Size Bias Affects Obesity Research Framing evidence of positive health associations with obesity as 'paradoxical' can limit pathways to new research, a short new film suggests.
  Quick Take, November 19, 2021
• Prader-Willi Syndrome: New Target for Hunger Suppression? Signaling pathways in the cerebellum, rather than the hypothalamus, could provide a key for developing new therapies for the genetic disorder.
  Quick Take, November 18, 2021
• Green Policies With Incentives More Popular, Research Shows Climate policies that focus on rewards rather than penalties may gain more support from the general public, though the social impact of the policies may be even more important.
  Quick Take, November 17, 2021
• This Raccoon Could Be the Mascot for COVID Hygiene One scientist is campaigning to create a cartoon mascot promoting healthy COVID practices ― in the vein of Smokey Bear ― but has had limited success convincing government groups and celebrities to get on board.
  Quick Take, November 17, 2021
• These Nonsense Words Transcend Language Barriers Across dozens of languages, people associate the same sounds with the same shapes, according to new research. What can this tell us about how language first developed in humans?
  Quick Take, November 15, 2021
• Move, Sit, Sleep: New Journal Examines Pillars of Well-Being What is the relationship between the time we spend being active, sedentary, and asleep in a day? A newly launched journal brings together fields that have traditionally been kept separate.
  Quick Take, November 12, 2021
• Baby Teeth Could Help Flag Mental Health Risk Growth lines on baby teeth that have fallen out may provide evidence of early life experiences that could affect mental health later on, a new study shows.
  Quick Take, November 11, 2021
• Are Our Patients Getting Mindfulness Wrong? The general public may be misinterpreting mindfulness and missing out on its benefits, according to a new study.
  Quick Take, November 10, 2021
• Does Epigenetics Place Too Much Blame on Mothers? In her new book, historian of science Sarah Richardson suggests that studies in epigenetics implicitly overemphasize the influence mothers can have in pregnancy on their children's inherited traits.
  Quick Take, November 08, 2021
• Map Pinpoints America's Hot Spots of Air Pollution A new report and interactive map show in precise detail how cancer-causing chemicals are released by multiple industrial facilities in some neighborhoods, creating zones of dangerous air.
  Quick Take, November 05, 2021