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April 06, 2023

Extraterrestrial Life Life Evolves. Can Attempts to Create 'Artificial Life' Evolve, Too? Do efforts to create life—by cooking up imitations in computers, robots and molecules—point toward a universal definition of biology? By Shi En Kim

Conservation On U.S. Barrier Islands, African-Rooted Traditions Protect against a Relentlessly Rising Ocean A way of life nurtured for hundreds of years in the U.S. Southeast guards coastlines from climate change By Sara Novak

Climate Change Glaciers May Melt Even Faster Than Expected, Study Finds Evidence that ancient glaciers retreated more than a quarter-mile a day is a worrisome sign that glaciers today could melt—and contribute to sea level rise—faster than was thought By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Public Health Bird Flu Is Surging. Dialing Back Its Pandemic Risk Starts with Prevention Bird flu outbreaks are a numbers game, and the numbers are turning against us By Daniel Schar,Erik Karlsson,Filip Claes

Sponsor Content Provided by PBS Watch American Masters: Dr. Tony Fauci on PBS Follow Dr. Anthony Fauci across two years as the scientist, husband and father grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic—and his own legacy as America’s foremost public health advocate. Now streaming on PBS.org and the PBS App.

Mathematics How Mathematics Can Predict--and Help Prevent--the Next Pandemic Mathematician Abba Gumel uses calculations and models to prepare for future disease outbreaks By Rachel Crowell

Drug Use From Orgasms to Overdoses: How Marie Nyswander Went from Treating 'Sexual Frigidity' to Heroin Addiction A young psychoanalyst specializing in sexual issues starts getting calls for help—about something else entirely By Katie Hafner,Carol Sutton Lewis,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 4

FROM THE ARCHIVE World's First "Living Machine" Created Using Frog Cells and Artificial Intelligence Scientists used computer algorithms to develop a programmable organism made of frog DNA By Mindy Weisberger,LiveScience | January 2020

WHAT WE'RE READING A Visit to the Peeps Factory With Easter approaching, The New York Times for Kids takes a trip to a world of marshmallow magic. By Kevin Dupzyk | The New York Times Magazine | April 6, 2023

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