Infants as Young as Two Months May Be Able to Detect Faces and Scenes

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November 16, 2021

Cognition Infants as Young as Two Months May Be Able to Detect Faces and Scenes Baby-brain-scanning experiments fuel the debate over whether humans are born with these abilities By Dana G. Smith

Engineering Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2021 Innovations to help tackle societal challenges—especially climate change

Space Exploration U.S. Officials Condemn Russian Anti-Satellite Test That Threatened Astronauts "The test has so far generated over 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris," a State Department spokesperson said By Chelsea Gohd,SPACE.com

Vaccines This Cheap Device Could Expand the World's Access to Vaccines A new delivery method for certain vaccines could make the lifesaving treatments more effective and accessible By Sam Jones

Renewable Energy Build Back Better's Big Challenge: Human Behavior Household energy programs will need to influence how people use energy By Holly Caggiano

Animals Rubbing Up Against Sharks May Feel Good Despite the Danger Fish species were found deliberately chafing on sharks around the world, though why they do so is not entirely clear By Rachel Nuwer

Politics New FDA Chief Will Face COVID Woes and Calls for Drug-Approval Reform After long delay, U.S. President Joe Biden picks Robert Califf to once again head the U.S. Food and Drug Administration By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Climate Change After COP26 Summit, World Waits to See if Democrats Can Pass Climate Legislation Party members in Congress are optimistic about passing an ambitious climate bill By Nick Sobczyk,E&E News

Neuroscience Cannabis Use in Pregnancy Is Linked to Child Anxiety, Hyperactivity Changes in the activity of immune system genes in the placenta could explain the association, researchers speculate By Emily Willingham

Weather Warning Scale Unveiled for Dangerous Rivers in the Sky Strings of ocean storms called atmospheric rivers flood California and other western coastlines, although sometimes they can be beneficial By Mark Fischetti

Climate Change 'COP26 Hasn't Solved the Problem': Scientists React to U.N. Climate Deal The Glasgow Climate Pact is a step forward, researchers say, but efforts to decarbonize are not enough to limit global temperature rises to two degrees Celsius By Ehsan Masood,Jeff Tollefson,Nature magazine

Planetary Science Ancient Martian 'Lake' May Have Just Been Ephemeral Puddles One study suggests the Curiosity rover's landing site is not as it seems By Lee Billings

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Baby Talk and Lemur Chatter--but Not Birdsong--Help an Infant's Brain Develop Researchers probe the outer boundaries of what types of sounds human infants tune in to for building cognition By Rachel Nuwer | March 2021

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