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December 19, 2022

Quantum Physics 6 Times Quantum Physics Blew Our Minds in 2022 Quantum telepathy, laser-based time crystals, a glow from empty space and an "unreal" universe—these are the most awesome (and awfully hard to understand) results from the subatomic realm we encountered in 2022 By Lee Billings

Vaccines RSV Is Surging. Progress in Preventing It Looks Promising RSV is the number one reason children are admitted to hospitals. Progress in developing preventatives raises hopes of changing that By Janet A. Englund

Animals These Male Wasps Use Genital Spines to Scare Off Attackers In one species of mason wasp, "pseudo stings" on males' genitals let them mimic females and scare predators By Grace van Deelen

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Climate Change U.S. Energy Emissions Set to Rise for Second Straight Year Increasing demand for natural gas and oil has offset emissions reductions associated with coal and pushed U.S. energy emissions higher for a second consecutive year By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Artificial Intelligence AI Platforms like ChatGPT Are Easy to Use but Also Potentially Dangerous Systems like ChatGPT are enormously entertaining and even mind-bogglingly human-sounding, but they are also unreliable and could create an avalanche of misinformation By Gary Marcus

Epidemiology China COVID Wave Could Kill One Million People, Models Predict Boosting vaccination rates, continuing widespread mask use and reimposing some restrictions on movement could reduce the number of deaths By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Economics Why It's So Hard to Recycle Plastic Here's how companies and other organizations are trying to make plastics more sustainable By Sarah DeWeerdt

Climate Change Arctic Lakes Are Disappearing Fast, and Scientists Are Just Figuring Out Why In an ominous sign of global warming, melting permafrost underneath Arctic lakes lets them drain into the ground By Naomi Oreskes

Policy Science News Briefs from around the World: December 2022 Lightning-resistant trees in Panama, an Australian avian arms race, hydrogen-powered trains in Germany, and much more in this month's Quick Hits By Daniel Leonard

Space Exploration Keep Looking Up As a dismal year on Earth draws to a close, milestones in space exploration offer much for the whole world to celebrate By The Editors

Economics A Sustainable Economy Depends on Sustainable Materials Scientists and manufacturers are charting a path toward material sustainability By Herb Brody

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 1

FROM THE ARCHIVE What Einstein Really Thought about Quantum Mechanics Einstein's assertion that God does not play dice with the universe has been misinterpreted By George Musser | September 2015

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Understanding most anything occurring at subatomic scales may require years of intense scholarship and oodles of gnarly math." Lee Billings, in "6 Times Quantum Physics Blew Our Minds in 2022."

WHAT WE'RE READING Did Sweden's Controversial COVID Strategy Pay Off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down By Emma Frans | The Conversation | Aug, 2022

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