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December 20, 2022

Vaccines The Biggest Health and Biology Breakthroughs of 2022 From reviving dead pig organs to measuring viruses in our poop, here are some of the most intriguing medical advances of the year By Tanya Lewis

Behavior Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain? A new study puts the "brain drain hypothesis"—the idea that just having a phone next to you impacts your cognition—to the test to see if the science passes muster. By Shayla Love | 06:59

Astronomy The Best of JWST's Cosmic Portraits These new views of familiar space sights reveal details never before seen By Clara Moskowitz

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Pollution Why Recycling Isn't the Answer to the Plastic Pollution Problem Recycling can only get us so far to a sustainable plastic future. The real solution to transforming the plastic economy lies in making less in the first place By Kristian Syberg

Black Holes Neutrinos from a Nearby Galaxy Reveal Black Hole Secrets The IceCube observatory has detected neutrinos from an active galaxy for the first time, revealing clues about how supermassive black holes gobble matter By Phil Plait

Microbiology Bacteria and Fungi Can 'Walk' across the Surface of Our Teeth Clusters of bacteria and fungi seem to be capable of complex movement, setting tooth decay in motion By Daniel Leonard

Climate Change Perfectly Preserved Insects and Plants Point to Warm Greenland Future A mile-long ice sample extracted by the U.S. military while it was studying whether to arm Greenland with nuclear missiles during the Cold War is yielding insights into the ice sheet's future in a warming world By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Animals Dietary Restriction Works in Lab Animals, but It Might Not Work in the Wild Scientists looking outside typical lab conditions find some surprises when examining the link between eating less and living longer By Saima May Sidik

Pollution Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Why All 3 R's Are Critical to a Circular Economy To create a sustainable economy, we need to revamp how we reduce, reuse and recycle products to create less waste By Sarah King

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 31, Issue 2s

FROM THE ARCHIVE It's Not Just O'Reilly and Weinstein: Sexual Violence Is a Global Problem Gender-based violence transcends national borders and class boundaries to touch the lives of roughly 33 percent of all women worldwide By Valerie Dobiesz,Julia Brooks,The Conversation US | October 2017

QUOTE OF THE DAY "In coming out against these high-profile men, dozens of women have helped to highlight not just the prevalence of sexual violence in the United States but also the societal norms that silence women and allow abusers to go unchecked." Valerie Dobiesz and Julia Brooks, researchers at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, in "It's Not Just O'Reilly and Weinstein: Sexual Violence Is a Global Problem."

WHAT WE'RE READING We Are Not Prepared for the Coming Surge of Babies The post-Roe rise in births in the U.S. will be concentrated in some of the worst states for infant and maternal health. Plans to improve these outcomes are staggeringly thin. By Melissa Jeltsen | The Atlantic | Dec. 16, 2022

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