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December 12, 2022

Space Exploration NASA's Artemis I Mission Successfully Returns from the Moon After a 26-day journey that took it to lunar orbit and back, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday afternoon, paving the way for future astronaut voyages to Earth's satellite By Nadia Drake

Mathematics 6 Marvelous Math Stories from 2022 Math made a splash this year. Here's a look at the fascinating discoveries, mind-bending quests and important events in mathematics in 2022 By Clara Moskowitz

Psychology Kindness Can Have Unexpectedly Positive Consequences People who engage in random acts of kindness may not fully recognize the impact of their behavior on others By Amit Kumar

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Sociology How Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric Fuels Violence Hate speech from the far right is increasing the risk of violence against LGBTQ+ people such as the Club Q shooting By Helen Santoro

Pharmaceuticals $3.5-Million Hemophilia Gene Therapy Is World's Most Expensive Drug A hemophilia drug has the potential to save lives. But it cannot treat the most common form of the disease By Miryam Naddaf,Nature magazine

Endangered Species As the World Scrambles to Halt Biodiversity Loss, 'Things Are Getting Worse' More than one quarter of the more than 150,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species are threatened with extinction By Andrea Thompson

Behavior It's the Bass That Makes Us Boogie Concertgoers danced more when music was supplemented with low-frequency bass tones. By Karen Hopkin | 05:03

Psychology Subliminal Cues, Precisely Timed, Might Help People Forget Bad Experiences Suppressing memories using an "amnesic shadow" could someday lead to a gentler therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder By Ingrid Wickelgren

FROM THE STORE Extraterrestrials and the Search for Life Do aliens exist? The enduring mystery of whether we're alone in the universe is a question that continues to drive scientific study into groundbreaking directions. This collection examines the latest thinking in the search for life, from discussing why we haven't found evidence of aliens so far to determining where and how to conduct the search to opening up the possibilities for what otherworldly life could truly look like.

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