Supreme Court Decision Hinders EPA but Leaves Avenues Open for Climate Regulation

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July 01, 2022

Policy Supreme Court Decision Hinders EPA but Leaves Avenues Open for Climate Regulation The agency can still impose stronger limits on other air pollutants that coal plants produce, which could also reduce greenhouse gas emissions By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Health Care An Implantable Ice Pack Tries to Relieve Pain without Opioids The dissolving device precisely targets individual nerves By Stephani Sutherland

Public Health Regulating Power Plants Is a Health Issue Doctors must get more involved in the public health crises that climate change will bring By Matthew Meyer

Astrophysics Why Do Astronomers Seek the Most Distant Galaxies? By finding and studying the universe's oldest objects, we can reveal hidden fundamental chapters of cosmic history By Fabio Pacucci

History 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: July 2022 Count women as workers; cement from sewage By Mark Fischetti

Microbiology A Remote-Controlled Carnivorous Plant? Researchers design an artificial neuron that can trigger closure of a Venus flytrap. By Karen Hopkin | 02:50

Epidemiology What You Need to Know about Monkeypox An infectious disease expert answers questions about how the virus spreads, what its symptoms are and how to get testing and treatment By Céline Gounder,Kaiser Health News

Biotech Electronic Skin Lets Humans Feel What Robots Do--And Vice Versa An integration of soft materials, sensors and flexible electronics is bringing robotic "skin" closer than ever to reality By Fionna M. D. Samuels

Animals A Person Got COVID from a Cat in First Confirmed Case Scientists in Thailand have established that a tabby passed SARS-CoV-2 to a veterinary surgeon—although such cases of cat-to-human transmission are probably rare By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Mathematics Mathematicians Are Trying to 'Hear' Shapes--And Reach Higher Dimensions An intriguing question about drums kicked off decades of inquiry By Rachel Crowell

Artificial Intelligence We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself.--Then We Tried to Get It Published An artificially intelligent first author presents many ethical questions—and could upend the publishing process By Almira Osmanovic Thunström

Animals How Snakes Breathe while Crushing Prey Boa constrictors wearing blood pressure cuffs and tiny masks reveal the answer to a biological puzzle By Lars Fischer,Joanna Thompson

Climate Change Our Environmental Crisis Requires Political Fixes, Not Technological Ones Our current innovation policies aim to preserve the way we live now rather than what would do the least damage By Peter Sutoris

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