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November 01, 2022

Epidemiology New Omicron Variants Are Here--What We Know So Far The variants appear to sneak past the immune system, but vaccines will likely continue to hold strong By Shannon Hall

Neuroscience Color Is in the Eye, and Brain, of the Beholder The way we see and describe hues varies widely for many reasons: from our individual eye structure, to how our brain processes images, to what language we speak, or even if we live near a body of water By Nicola Jones,Knowable Magazine

Climate Change Why the Upcoming Climate Talks Are Different from Past Ones Beginning next week at the COP 27 meeting, global climate negotiators will try to put decades of bureaucratic bargaining into practice in areas where rising temperatures are hitting people the hardest By Jean Chemnick,E&E News

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Policy The Most Urgent Science, Health and Climate Issues in the 2022 Midterm Elections The midterm elections have high stakes for issues such as abortion rights, pandemic funding, climate change and other fundamental policies By Andrea Thompson,Tanya Lewis,Sophie Bushwick

Reproduction The Supreme Court's Abortion Ruling Upholds White Supremacy As voters head to the polls in November, supporting those who deny this human right also supports oppression By Biftu Mengesha

History 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: November 2022 Tattooed corneas; sunlight on Venus By Mark Fischetti

Animals Researchers Are Making Nightmarish 'Coffee' with Invasive Sea Lampreys Why on Earth would you try to "brew" anything using parasitic fish that slurp the blood and guts out of other fish? By Aaron Martin

Artificial Intelligence One of the Biggest Problems in Biology Has Finally Been Solved Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how its AlphaFold AI program predicted the 3-D structure of every known protein By Tanya Lewis

Sociology Making Friends with Political Opponents Doesn't Improve Support for Democracy Befriending someone in the opposite party does not lessen anti-democratic attitudes, a study finds By Sara Novak

Education Why Scientists Must Stand for Affirmative Action and against Scientific Racism The Supreme Court could destroy affirmative action in higher education, and STEM professionals must stand against the white supremacy and scientific racism that fuels arguments against it By Stacy Farina,K Amacker

Climate Change Climate Change Is Adding Urgency to Archaeology Scientists say drought and other climate change impacts are undermining their ability to protect and document important sites before they degrade or disappear By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

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