Weird Muons May Point to New Particles and Forces of Nature

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September 15, 2021

Particle Physics Weird Muons May Point to New Particles and Forces of Nature A mismatch between theory and experiment could explain big physics mysteries By Marcela Carena

Medicine Why Kids Beat Back COVID Better Than Adults Innate immunity might be the key to why children have fared better with the virus. But the Delta variant poses fresh unknowns By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Space Exploration SpaceX's Inspiration4 Mission Launches Today. Here's How to Watch The three-day orbital voyage of the all-civilian crew will be a historic milestone for human spaceflight By Amy Thompson,SPACE.com

Animals How to Help Your Dog Adapt to a Postpandemic World As owners head back to offices, pets' anxiety and frustration may rise By Katie Weeman

Vaccines Biden's New Plan to Combat COVID is a Start, but Experts Say There Is a Ways to Go The plan includes vaccine mandates for federal workers and those at companies with 100 or more employees, but some experts say it doesn't go far enough By Victoria Knight,Julie Appleby,Kaiser Health News

Astronomy This Supernova Will Make a Ghostly Reappearance in 2037 A chance celestial alignment is allowing astronomers to witness a distant star's explosive death, again and again By Tereza Pultarova,SPACE.com

Climate Change Infrastructure Bill Could Cut Carbon Emissions By Nearly a Gigaton Provisions in the reconciliation package working its way through Congress would help meet Biden's climate pledge By Nick Sobczyk,E&E News

Vaccines An mRNA Pioneer Discusses How Her Work Led to the COVID Vaccines Biochemist Katalin Karikó and her colleague Drew Weissman were recently awarded a $3-million Breakthrough Prize for their work By Tanya Lewis

Neuroscience A Car Crash Snaps the Daydreaming Mind into Focus One researcher's poorly timed attention lapse flipped a car—and pushed science forward. By Karen Hopkin | 03:56

Animals Extreme Birding Competition Is a Cutthroat Test of Skill, Strategy and Endurance A team of birders races to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours By Kate Wong

Medicine Why Nearly 80 Percent of Autoimmune Sufferers Are Female The effects of sex hormones, X chromosomes and different gut microbes may be parts of the answer By Melinda Wenner Moyer

Inequality A State-by-State Approach to Closing the Health Equity Gap We need to establish directors for health equity at the state level By Joseph V. Sakran,Suhas Gondi,Ebony Hilton

Extraterrestrial Life Note to Branson and Bezos: Extraterrestrials Will Not Be Impressed If they exist, they'll find our puny forays into space completely insignificant By Avi Loeb

Mathematics Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird's-Eye View of Mathematics Mathematicians have expanded category theory into infinite dimensions, revealing new connections among mathematical concepts By Emily Riehl

Mental Health The Top 10 Innovations in Mental Health A look at methods and technologies that are transforming the work of psychiatrists and psychologists

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physics Initial data from the Muon g-2 experiment have excited particle physicists searching for undiscovered subatomic particles and forces By Daniel Garisto | April 2021

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