Sometimes Mindlessness Is Better Than Mindfulness

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September 01, 2021

Psychology Sometimes Mindlessness Is Better Than Mindfulness In some situations, don't pay so much attention By Alexander P. Burgoyne,David Z. Hambrick

Medicine Rogue Antibodies Involved In Nearly One-fifth Of COVID Deaths Self-targeting antibodies attack part of the immune system that plays a key role in fighting infection By Diana Kwon,Nature magazine

Natural Disasters Understanding Pyrocumulonimbi, aka 'Fire Clouds' Caused by wildfires, they can trigger lightning, create fire tornadoes and turbocharge winds that accelerate the spread of a conflagration By Jon Reisner,Manvendra Dubey

Animals Birds' Eye Size Predicts Vulnerability to Habitat Loss A lost "treasure trove" of bird samples reveals how eye shape changes with environment By Jack Tamisiea

Climate Change How Hurricane Ida Got So Big So Fast An eddy in the Gulf of Mexico and some heavy vapor played key roles By Robin Lloyd

Pollution Plant Absorbs Toxic RDX Contamination Modified switchgrass can sop up weapons chemicals on military ranges By Susan Cosier

Sports How Paralympic Wheelchairs and Prostheses Are Optimized for Speed and Performance The engineering and designs vary widely from sport to sport and athlete to athlete By Sophie Bushwick

Behavior Drug Overdose Deaths in 2020 Were Horrifying We need radical change in order to address the crisis By Nora D. Volkow

Conservation World's Largest Wildlife Bridge Could Save Mountain Lions An ambitious and popular project to connect the dangerously inbred Santa Monica mountain lions to a larger population is about to break ground By Craig Pittman

Weather Their Lives Have Been Upended by Hurricane Ida Theresa and Donald Dardar lived their whole lives in coastal Louisiana. They knew the "big one" might come someday. It did, and now everything is uncertain. By Duy Linh Tu | 05:41

Agriculture In-Hive Sensors Could Help Ailing Bee Colonies The technology could help beekeepers reduce short-term losses, but it doesn't address long-term problems facing honeybees By Allison LaSorda

Medicine Virus or Bacterium? Rapid Test Pinpoints Infection's Cause A generation of new tests could lessen overuse of antibiotics By Harini Barath

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Where's the Proof That Mindfulness Meditation Works? The ubiquitous technique for relieving stress and pain has remarkably little scientific evidence backing it, a group of scientists contend By Bret Stetka | October 2017

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