The New Science of Autoimmune Disease

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September 07, 2021

Medicine The New Science of Autoimmune Disease Millions of people are sickened by immune systems that are supposed to defend them. There are new ideas about why this happens and how to stop it.

Health Care How I Was Betrayed from Within One patient recounts her journey through a world of disabling symptoms, ineffective treatments and dismissive doctors By Maria Konnikova

Reproduction The Absurd Pregnancy Math behind the Texas 'Six-Week' Abortion Ban The law the Supreme Court just failed to block is not just a blow to women; it's biologically nonsensical By Michelle Rodrigues

Technology Starlink, Internet From Space and the Precarious Future of Broadband in Rural America President Biden's infrastructure plan includes an unprecedented $65 billion for broadband deployment, but money alone will not fix America's Internet problem. This short documentary shows why. By Jacob Templin

Natural Disasters Hurricane Ida May Spark Mass Migration Like Katrina before it, the storm may make living conditions untenable in hard-hit areas By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Ecology Wolf Populations Drop as More States Allow Hunting Repercussions of planned and anticipated wolf hunts and traps could ripple through ecosystems for years to come, scientists say By Tess Joosse

Mental Health Adolescent Mental Health? There's a 'Vaccine' for That School-based interventions that help students regulate their emotions in healthy ways have proved effective at preventing pandemic-related issues By Tamar Mendelson and Laura Clary

Evolution When Lord Kelvin Nearly Killed Darwin's Theory The eminent 19th-century physicist argued—wrongly, it turned out—that Earth wasn't old enough to have let natural selection play out By Mano Singham

Behavior A New Way to Understand--and Possibly Treat--OCD People with the disorder seem to have a more flexible "sense of self" By Baland Jalal

Extraterrestrial Life To Look or Not to Look? That Is the Question The search for technological relics of extraterrestrial civilizations will inspire the public and attract talent to the field of astronomy By Avi Loeb

Creativity To Solve the Environmental Crisis, We Must Foster the Power to Imagine Our educational system is designed to generate productive workers, not creative thinkers and doers By Peter Sutoris

Language Made-Up Sounds Convey Meaning across Cultures Newly created vocalizations can convey concepts remarkably well By Katherine Kornei

Arts Poem: 'sap pitch and resin' Science in meter and verse By Roald Hoffmann

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "No matter how visible or invisible any given condition, autoimmune disease is incredibly real, incredibly painful--and incredibly underappreciated by those who don't suffer from it. Millions of people are casualties of that lack of awareness." Maria Konnikova, science journalist

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