Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here .

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COVID Quickly, Episode 18: Vaccines for Kids and the Limits of Natural Immunity

You read that right. Researchers have taken the chemical defenses of some insects and turned them into sounds , which, it turns out, repel people just as well.

These Bugs Produce Smelly Defenses That Need to Be Heard to Be Believed

Over millions of years of evolution, some beetles have learned to dampen the stench of decay to help their young thrive.

For Some Parents, Hiding a Dead Body Shows How Much You Care

In beetles&mdash;we are talking beetles&mdash;some of whom have learned, over millions of years of evolution, to dampen the stench of decay in order to help their young thrive.

By dating the remnants of trees felled in Newfoundland, scientists have determined that the Norse people likely first set foot in the Americas in the year A.D. 1021.

Date of the Vikings' First Atlantic Crossing Revealed by Rays from Space

COVID Quickly, Episode 17: Vaccine Lies and Protecting Immunocompromised People

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series&nbsp;COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American &rsquo;s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here .

New research using a camera that can “see" sound” shows some elephants can produce high-pitched buzzing with their lips.

How Can an Elephant Squeak Like a Mouse?

New research&nbsp;using a camera that can &ldquo;see&quot; sound&rdquo;&nbsp;shows some elephants can produce high-pitched buzzing with their lips.

Nearly 200 years after his death, the German composer’s musical scratch was pieced together by machine—with a lot of human help.

Beethoven's Unfinished 10th Symphony Brought to Life by Artificial Intelligence

Nearly 200 years after his death, the German composer&rsquo;s musical scratch was pieced together by machine&mdash;with a lot of human help.

Ewine van Dishoeck received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics in 2018 for elucidating the life cycle of interstellar clouds and the formation of stars and planets. What other mysteries of space are left to be uncovered?

The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding the Universe [Sponsored]

Ewine van Dishoeck received The Kavli Prize in Astrophysics in 2018 for elucidating the life cycle of interstellar clouds and the formation of stars and planets. What other mysteries of space are left to be uncovered?

The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding The Universe [Sponsored]

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