Unexplained Results Intrigue Physicists at World's Largest Particle Collider

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March 25, 2021

Physics Unexplained Results Intrigue Physicists at World's Largest Particle Collider Muons and electrons might not experience the same fundamental interactions, contrary to Standard Model predictions By Daniel Garisto

Public Health Hidden Toll of COVID in Africa Threatens Global Pandemic Progress Undercounting or ignoring cases of the disease on the continent could lead to new variants that might derail efforts to end the pandemic By Sarah Wild

Policy & Ethics In a Pipe Repair Worker's Death, Questions of Safety Still Swirl A wrongful-death suit tied to cured-in-place piping is resolved, but critics say studies justify more oversight By Robin Lloyd,Undark

Energy Dead Power Grid Revived with Solar and Wind, Not Diesel An unexpected outage in Colorado allowed engineers to test whether renewable energy and batteries can quickly restart an electric grid By John Fialka,E&E News

Natural Disasters Hurricane Names from Greek Alphabet Are Dropped Sticking with human names will lessen confusion and distraction By Mark Fischetti

Space President Biden Should Push for the Human Exploration of Mars Robotic rovers like Perseverance are great, but they can't answer the most fundamental questions about the Red Planet By Robert Zubrin

Public Health The Biggest Barriers to COVID Vaccination for Black and Latinx People Differences in life expectancy, car ownership and language may contribute to the racial and ethnic disparities By Tanya Lewis

Environment Hunger Strikers Seeking Environmental Justice Win Air-Pollution Delay​ A hunger strike in Chicago and concerns raised by city and state politicians has slowed the planned move of a metal scrapper to a working-class, predominantly Latino community By Jim Daley

Space Magnetic Field around a Black Hole Mapped for the First Time Images from the Event Horizon Telescope reveal new details of how supermassive black holes produce huge jets of matter and energy By Stephanie Pappas,LiveScience

Public Health The Coronavirus Variants Don't Seem to Be Highly Variable So Far SARS-CoV-2 may be settling into a limited set of mutations By Vaughn Cooper

The Body Is Estrogen Deficiency Really a Thing? The catch-all term plays into a cultural notion that estrogen is what makes a woman a woman By Jerilynn C. Prior

Environment Using Dragonflies as Contamination Detectors By collecting the larvae of the fast flyers, researchers have turned the insects into "biosentinels" that can track mercury pollution across the country. Berly McCoy reports.  By Kimberly McCoy | 02:59

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Physicists Excited by Latest LHC Anomaly A series of odd findings have theorists hoping for new particles By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature | April 2017

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