The Latest Stories from KQED Science
| These Silk-Swinging Caterpillars Will Ruin Your Picnic | | California oak moth caterpillars eat all the leaves on an oak, leaving a brown skeleton. Then they rappel down on a strand of silk, twirling and swinging. If you were enjoying the shade, good luck getting out of their way. For the oak, the caterpillars are a bigger deal – will the tree survive? | | |
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| Why So Many People Believe Trump Really Won the Election | | Although believing conspiracies is often talked about as a pathological behavior, anyone might believe one under the right circumstances, says media psychologist Asheley Landrum. | | |
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| Exhausted Health Care Workers Feel Betrayed by Those Who Ignore COVID Rules | | As holiday surges overwhelm hospitals, a sense of betrayal and anger has grown among exhausted health care workers, some of who feel ready to crack from the horrific scenes they see inside hospitals. | | |
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| | | The U.S. Plans to Expand Vaccine Access to Tens of Millions. That Could be a Problem for Biden |
| | | Federal officials told the states to expand priority access to tens of millions of additional people immediately. | | |
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| | | California Counties 'Flying the Plane as We Build It' in Plodding Vaccine Rollout |
| | | In California, where public health is largely a county-level operation, the same departments managing testing and contact tracing for an out-of-control epidemic are leading the vaccination effort, putting an already beleaguered workforce at the helm of another time-consuming undertaking. | | |
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| Progressives Gear Up for Broad New Push on Climate Action | | The Green New Deal Network is launching with over $20 million to promote their agenda, as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office and Democrats set to control both chambers of Congress. | | |
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