Science Times: Covid May Cause Changes in the Brain

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View in browser|nytimes.com Continue reading the main story March 8, 2022 G. Douaud, Anderson Winkler and Saad Jbabdi, University of Oxford and NIH Covid May Cause Changes in the Brain, New Study Finds Brain scans before and after infection showed more loss of gray matter and tissue damage, mostly in areas related to smell, in people who had Covid than in those who did not. By Pam Belluck Adam Amengual for The New York Times Dreaming of Suitcases in Space A California start-up company believes it can one day speed delivery of important items by storing them in orbit. By Daisuke Wakabayashi Laura Betz/NASA, via Associated Press Making a Camera That Works a Million Miles Away When the James Webb Space Telescope sent its first images to Earth, no one was more excited than Marcia J. Rieke, who oversaw the design and construction of its camera. By Mark A. 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