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February 06, 2023

Natural Disasters Why the Earthquake in Turkey Was So Damaging and Deadly A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey is a rare occurrence and underscores the importance of setting and enforcing building codes By Andrea Thompson

Extraterrestrial Life Scientists Try to Get Serious about Studying UFOs. Good Luck with That New dedicated observatories and crowdsourced smartphone apps will study strange sightings in the sky. But questionable data quality and a lack of shared research standards remain key challenges By Leonard David

Artificial Intelligence Coming Soon to Your Podcast Feed: Science, Quickly A new era in Scientific American audio history is about to drop starting next week—get ready for a science variety show guaranteed to quench your curiosity in under 10 minutes. By Jeffery DelViscio,Tulika Bose | 04:10

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Defense Chinese Spy Balloon Has Unexpected Maneuverability An expert explains why it's so odd that the suspected Chinese spy balloon can change course By Sophie Bushwick

Psychology The Psychological Benefits of Commuting Commuting creates a liminal space that allows people to transition between home and work, which remote work doesn't provide By Matthew Piszczek,Kristie McAlpine,The Conversation US

Anthropology Native Americans Conducted Large-Scale Copper Mining 6,000 Years Ago Prehistoric pollution reveals extensive copper mining near Lake Superior By Sarah Derouin

Natural Disasters Disasters displaced More Than 3 Million Americans in 2022 More than three million adults were forced to evacuate their homes in the U.S. in the past year because of hurricanes, floods and other disasters, according to the Census Bureau By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Quantum Physics Poem: 'A Quantum Cento' Science in meter and verse By Lorraine Schein

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 31, Issue 4s

FROM THE ARCHIVE Can We Predict Earthquakes At All? If we can predict hurricanes, floods, and tornados to differing degrees of reliability, why don't we know when the next big earthquake will come? By Everyday Einstein Sabrina Stierwalt | January 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "A million blurry images are worthless, compared to a single high-resolution video that resolves an object as it maneuvers." Avi Loeb, head of the Galileo Project, on the hunt for unidentified aerial phenomena.

WHAT WE'RE READING The Milky Way in Spellbinding Detail and More -- January's Best Science Images The month's sharpest science shots, selected by Nature's photo team. By Emma Stoye | Nature | Feb. 1, 2023

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