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January 19, 2023

Vaccines An Old TB Vaccine Might Help Stave Off Diabetes, Cancer Alzheimer's, and More  The BCG vaccine might assist in preventing a range of major diseases By Viviane Callier

Public Health The Health Risks of Gas Stoves Explained Gas stoves produce emissions that can harm human health and the environment. Experts answer questions about the dangers and how to limit them By Tanya Lewis

Climate Change Global Carbon Removal Efforts Are Off Track for Meeting Climate Goals Carbon removal is an “unavoidable” part of global climate action, but a new report finds that current efforts aren’t enough to meet the warming limits set by the Paris climate agreement By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Extraterrestrial Life The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don't Know It Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings By Sarah Scoles

Psychology Your Response to Stress Improves as You Grow Older In good news, our reactions to stressful events improve as we age. But living in uncertain times will still take a toll By Daisy Yuhas

Plants See the Largest Flower Ever Found Encased in Amber A rare flower encased in amber is the largest one ever found and dates from around 40 million years ago By Jack Tamisiea

Artificial Intelligence What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us By Giacomo Miceli

Consciousness Free Will Is Only an Illusion if You Are, Too New research findings, combined with philosophy, suggest free will is real but may not operate in the ways people expect By Alessandra Buccella,Tomáš Dominik

FROM THE STORE Hacking the Immune System   The immune system is a marvel, but sometimes those defenses need help. In this eBook, we examine various ways the immune system is being manipulated to fight disease, starting with the science behind the research into COVID vaccines and treatments. We also examine cutting-edge interventions for infectious diseases beyond COVID such as a universal flu vaccine, immunotherapies for cancer and more.

FROM THE ARCHIVE Could a Single Live Vaccine Protect against a Multitude of Diseases? A controversial theory holds that one immunization, given properly, can protect against many diseases besides its target By Melinda Wenner Moyer | June 2019

QUOTE OF THE DAY "The next pandemic, we will have something which is on the shelf that can already protect 60 to 70 percent of the population against mortality." Mihai Netea, immunologist and infectious disease clinician at Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

WHAT WE'RE READING Bomb Cyclone? Or Just Windy with a Chance of Hyperbole? When the barometer drops, the volume of ‘hyped words’ rises, and many meteorologists aren’t happy about it. By Matt Richtel | The New York Times | Jan. 18, 2023

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