News at a glance: Asia’s COVID-19 surge, melting winter sea ice, and ‘inflammatory’ arXiv papers

How NASA's Roman telescope could help find Earth-like planets by surveying space dust. Finding out how much of this material these systems contain would help astronomers learn more about how rocky planets form and guide the search for habitable worlds by future missions.

In U.S., alcohol use disorder linked to 232 million missed workdays annually

Smoke from Australia’s intense fires in 2019 and 2020 damaged the ozone layer