Long COVID, black holes on earth, your brain in love

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February 14, 2023

Neuroscience Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system By Stephani Sutherland

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 Has Anyone Created a Black Hole on Earth? A lab-made black hole is beyond current technology, but could be possible one day By Adam Mann

Neuroscience Your Brain in Love Cupid's arrows, laced with neurotransmitters, find their marks By Mark Fischetti

Paleontology Five-Eyed, Nozzle-Nosed Oddity Lingered Far beyond the Cambrian Period This ancient creature swam in surprisingly modern seas By Riley Black

Neuroscience How Research on Working Memory Can Improve Your Romantic Relationship A cognitive factor helps explain how well we understand each other By David Z. Hambrick,Daisuke S. Katsumata

Defense Why We're Suddenly Spotting Spy Balloons Every question we have about the airborne objects that might or might not be spying on the U.S. By Sophie Bushwick

Renewable Energy Biden Administration Bets $74 Million on 'Enhanced' Geothermal Power The Energy Department grant aims to cut the cost of new geothermal systems that generate electricity from heat miles underground By Minho Kim,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 3

FROM THE ARCHIVE Mass Shootings Leave Lasting Psychological Wounds Tragedies such as the ones in Uvalde, Tex., and Buffalo, N.Y., can lead to major depression, PTSD and other lingering mental distress among survivors By Claudia Wallis | June 2022

QUOTE OF THE DAY "I now think of COVID as a neurological disease as much as I think of it as a pulmonary disease, and that's definitely true in long COVID." William Pittman, physician at UCLA Health in Los Angeles

WHAT WE'RE READING The Mystery of the Disappearing Vacation Day A little-known government indicator shows Americans are on vacation half as often as they were 40 years ago. What happened?! By Andrew Van Dam | The Washington Post | Feb. 10, 2023

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