What went wrong? Plus, Leonardo’s genius
| Wednesday, August 10, 2022 | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY CDC | | What went wrong? Monkeypox shouldn’t be a public health emergency now. It’s infinitely harder to catch than COVID-19, two vaccines and drug treatment exist, and diagnostic tests are available.
Yet cases of the virus exploded with inadequate access to testing, misdiagnosis, and—until very recently—a cumbersome prescription process. “I fear what we’re counting is likely the tip of the iceberg,” physician and epidemiologist Wafaa El-Sadr tells Nat Geo.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY PAOLO VERZONE | | Getting serious about fusion: This newfangled form of energy will someday help us slow climate change—but it won’t save us from the need to act now. As the world’s biggest nuclear fusion experiment (pictured above) rises in southern France, scientists must coax hydrogen to fuse into helium in temperatures several times hotter than our sun’s core. That transfer has never been done consistently before. At the earliest, a prototype fusion plant won’t switch on until the early 2030s, and there’s no guarantee it will produce cheap and reliable power. However, progress has been undeniable, experts tell Nat Geo.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY SEBASTIEN COLIN | | Spreading the love: At first, no one believed the researchers. How could marine animals pollinate plants under the surface, like bees do above? It happens—and it has likely been happening for tens of millions of years, biologist Zong-Xin Ren tells Nat Geo. “We know so little about our world,” Ren says. (Pictured above, an isopod covered in the germ cells of red algae.)
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 | | Most people think that there are only three or four species of penguins and they all live on ice because of movies or cartoons. … The penguins that are facing more problems are the ones that have to coexist with the humans. | | | Pablo ‘Popi’ Borboroglu
| | Nat Geo Explorer working to protect penguins in Patagonia, and beyond | | |
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| | Stay for the fireballs: Thursday’s full moon may put a damper on the peak of one of the year’s best meteor showers, the Perseids. The lunar glare may limit the number of visible meteors per hour, but the shooting stars produce especially bright fireballs. Though the Perseids peak on Friday and Saturday, stragglers fly by until August 24. Look for them around the constellation Perseus, which rises overnight in the northeast. Here’s more on meteor showers. — Andrew Fazekas
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| This newsletter has been curated and edited by David Beard, Jen Tse, Heather Kim, Anne Kim-Dannibale, and Allie Yang. Have an idea or a link? We'd love to hear from you at david.beard@natgeo.com. Miss yesterday’s Helicopters on Mars newsletter? It’s right here. Thanks for reading. | |
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