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February 13, 2023

Psychology The Best Way to Boost Workers' Mental Health Is to Give Them Good Managers To improve workers' health, research shows, companies need to support "transformational" leaders and weed out "destructive" actors, not just tout wellness programs By Daisy Grewal

Psychology Love and the Brain, Part 1: The 36 Questions, Revisited Host Shayla Love dives into the true story behind the now infamous 36 questions that lead to love. By Shayla Love | 12:27

Black Holes Quantum Entanglement Isn't All That Spooky After All The way we teach quantum theory conveys a spookiness that isn't actually there By Chris Ferrie

Quantum Computing Underdog Technologies Gain Ground in Quantum-Computing Race Individual atoms trapped by optical 'tweezers' are emerging as a promising computational platform By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Neuroscience Monogamous Prairie Voles Reveal the Neurobiology of Love Studies of prairie voles are providing surprising new insights into how social bonds form By Steven Phelps,Zoe Donaldson,Dev Manoli

Plants Do Trees Really Support Each Other through a Network of Fungi? Trees communicate and cooperate through a fungal web, according to a widespread idea. But not everyone is convinced By Stephanie Pappas

Astronomy 'Impossible' New Ring System Discovered at the Edge of the Solar System Astronomers are puzzled by a ring around the icy dwarf planet Quaoar that is much farther from its parent body than thought possible By Robert Lea,LiveScience

Microbiology Could the Zombie Fungus in TV's The Last of Us Really Infect People? The pandemic fungus in the television program The Last of Us is real. But an expert says other fungi are much more threatening to humans By Allison Parshall

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FROM THE ARCHIVE You Can Conquer Burnout Job satisfaction is a surprisingly fragile state. Here's how to protect yourself against the top contributors to burnout By Michael P. Leiter,Christina Maslach | January 2015

WHAT WE'RE READING Searching for Life in the Rubble How search and rescue teams comb debris for survivors after devastating earthquakes By Adolfo Arranz, Simon Scarr and Jitesh Chowdhury | Reuters | Feb. 9, 2023

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