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January 27, 2023

Pharmaceuticals How Antidepressants Help Bacteria Resist Antibiotics A laboratory study unravels ways antidepressants and other nonantibiotic drugs can contribute to drug resistance By Liam Drew,Nature

Epidemiology Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World These pathogens already kill 1.6 million people every year, and we have few defenses against them By Maryn McKenna

Neurology A Neurologist Answers Questions Patients Might Have about the New Alzheimer's Drug Lecanemab What a patient and family members can expect from the recently approved drug lecanemab—and what more is needed to help stop Alzheimer's dementia By Gary Stix

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Evolution How Plants' Plumbing Let Them Conquer the World To protect from deadly drought and make it on land, plants developed complicated inner plumbing By Elise Cutts

Climate Change The Right Words Are Crucial to Solving Climate Change Speaking to people's priorities can build the will needed to implement climate solutions By Susan Joy Hassol

Reproduction Antiabortion Heartbeat Bills Are not Morally, Scientifically or Legally Sound A beating heart is neither a necessary nor sufficient standard to determine the start of life, making antiabortion heartbeat bills morally and legally wrong By Christina Han,Cara C. Heuser

Natural Disasters Upstart Flood-Damage Insurer Could Pay Claims within Hours Sensors installed on clients' buildings detect water levels and immediately trigger the claims process By Avery Ellfeldt,E&E News

Archaeology Did Plants Domesticate Humans? Watch 'The First Entanglement' Archaeologists studying one of the birthplaces of agriculture find a complex interplay between human actions and the workings of nature and genetics. By Regina Sobel

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 324, Issue 6

FROM THE ARCHIVE Strange but True: The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus The blue whale is big, but nowhere near as huge as a sprawling fungus in eastern Oregon By Anne Casselman | October 2007

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Even after a few days' exposure, bacteria develop drug resistance, not only against one but multiple antibiotics." Jianhua Guo, researcher at the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, on antibiotic resistance that develops in response to antidepressants.

WHAT WE'RE READING ChatGPT Can't be Credited as an Author, says World's Largest Academic Publisher But Springer Nature, which publishes thousands of scientific journals, says it has no problem with AI being used to help write research — as long as its use is properly disclosed. By James Vincent | The Verge | Jan. 26, 2023

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