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April 06, 2022

Climate Change Climate Report Offers Some Hope, but the Need for Action Is Urgent Sustained emissions reductions and the rapidly dropping costs of renewables were some positive notes in the latest IPCC installment By Andrea Thompson

Robotics Birds Make Better Bipedal Bots Than Humans Do A new machine called BirdBot balances walking efficiency and speed By Joanna Thompson

Toxicology Will Russia Use Chemical Weapons in Ukraine? Researchers Evaluate the Risks Analysts explain why some fear that the Russian military will use chemical weapons—and how the world would know if it did By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

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Natural Disasters Most States Are Failing on Building Codes, FEMA Says Thirty-nine states received the agency's lowest score, including many of the most disaster-prone By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Materials Science New 'Ionogels' Are Tough, Stretchable and Easy to Make They could find use as protective material, 3-D printer "ink" or longer-lasting batteries By Sophie Bushwick

Politics Why We Must Protect Voting Rights Evidence shows they boost suffrage, not fraud By The Editors

Climate Change Carbon Removal 'Unavoidable' as Climate Dangers Grow, New IPCC Report Says But if the world relies too heavily on this strategy, it could risk overshooting targets to limit warming By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Black Holes Swarms of Black Holes at the Milky Way's Heart? Maybe Not Revisiting a controversial claim, astronomers are laying bare deep uncertainties about our understanding of galactic centers By Lyndie Chiou

Astrophysics The History of the Milky Way Comes into Focus By dating nearly a quarter-million stars, astronomers were able to reconstruct the history of our galaxy—and they say it has lived an "enormously sheltered life." By Christopher Intagliata | 02:21

Cancer A Wave of New Cancer Treatments Challenges Community Oncologists to Keep Up Partnerships with top research centers, along with advanced technology, may help local doctors offer patients the latest therapies By Claudia Wallis

Climate Change What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI To tackle the climate crisis, artificial intelligence is becoming more open and democratic By Wai Chee Dimock

Quantum Physics Poem: 'Schrödinger's Cat' Science in meter and verse By Peggy Landsman

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FROM THE ARCHIVE How Climate Change Will Hit Younger Generations A new analysis shows that people born later will experience vastly more severe weather events By Andrea Thompson | February 2022

QUOTE OF THE DAY "I think that the most important messages out of this current assessment cycle are: For the first time, we have evidence of real, sustained greenhouse gas reductions from some countries over a period of 10 years or more." Sarah Burch, climate policy researcher at the University of Waterloo in Ontario

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