Nurses Struggle through a New COVID Wave with Rage and Compassion

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January 11, 2022

Health Care Nurses Struggle through a New COVID Wave with Rage and Compassion A critical care nurse confronts the Omicron surge filling her hospital By Kathryn Ivey

Psychology New Year's Resolutions Are Notoriously Slippery, but Science Can Help You Keep Them You can change your behavior in lasting ways by changing how you frame your situation, explains behavioral scientist Ayelet Fishbach in her new book By Katy Milkman

Climate Change Fires Doubled Australia's Carbon Emissions--Ecosystems May Never Soak It Back Up Increasing odds of hot, dry weather make it less likely trees and other plants will quickly grow back By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

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Mathematics New Math Research Group Reflects a Schism in the Field Critics accuse the organization of opposing efforts to stamp out inequity By Rachel Crowell

Physiology The Surprising Physics of Finger Snapping You might not think that you can generate more body acceleration than a big-league baseball pitcher, but new research shows you can. By Karen Hopkin | 05:12

Evolution Fossils Reveal When Animals Started Making Noise For billions of years Earth was quiet. Then life got loud By Michael B. Habib

Astrophysics ArXiv.org Reaches a Milestone and a Reckoning Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server By Daniel Garisto

Natural Disasters Rebuilt New Orleans Levees Saved Lives and Property The storm caused $65 million in damage across the U.S., according to the global reinsurance company Munich Re By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Astronomy Landmark Webb Observatory Is Now Officially a Telescope The observatory has flawlessly unfurled its mirrors and sunshield—although more steps are needed before the science can begin By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Nurses Are Also Scientists The pandemic has only reinforced what nursing professionals have known all along By Eileen Sullivan-Marx | April 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "I became a nurse because I want to help people. I don't want to watch them die these horrible, preventable deaths, shift after shift and year after year. No health care worker does." Kathryn Ivey, critical care nurse at a medical center in Nashville, Tennessee

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