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March 25, 2022

Public Health COVID Is Here to Stay How do we live with it? By Christine Crudo Blackburn

Fossil Fuels The U.S. Will Increase Natural Gas Exports to Europe to Replace Russian Fuel Biden administration officials are also promising to accelerate the build-out of hydrogen and carbon capture By Sara Schonhardt,Scott Waldman,E&E News

Diversity Women Are Creating a New Culture for Astronomy A new generation of scientists are challenging the biased, hierarchical status quo By Ann Finkbeiner

Animals Lost Genes Explain Vampire Bats' Diet of Blood To survive on nutrient-poor blood, less can sometimes be more By Jack Tamisiea

Evolution Urban Evolution: How Species Adapt to Survive in Cities Evolution in cities illuminates longstanding scientific questions and climate change futures By Eric Bender,Knowable Magazine

Animals Blind Eel and Nearly Transparent Fish Discovered in 2021 With around a third of freshwater fish facing extinction, ichthyologists are racing to discover more—including the 200 species found last year—before they disappear By Veronika Perková

Neuroscience Does This Look Like a Face to You? Science—and experience—show that we most definitely see faces in inanimate objects, but new research finds that more often than not, we perceive those illusory faces as male. By Karen Hopkin | 03:53

Plants Giant Rotten-Smelling Parasite Flower Rafflesia Evokes Host Defenses A host plant's survival may depend on powerful chemicals swimming in its vines By Shi En Kim

Behavior Pamplona Bull Runs Reveal Dynamics of Crowds in Danger Thousands running alongside bulls in Spain speed up as density increases By Jack Tamisiea

Fossil Fuels The U.S. and Europe Are Looking for a Path to Cut Russian Fuel "Our climate goals may well be another victim of Russia's aggression," says Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency By Sara Schonhardt,Scott Waldman,E&E News

Space Exploration Poem: Other Worlds in Haiku Science in meter and verse By Dava Sobel

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 3

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FROM THE ARCHIVE The Coronavirus Is Here to Stay--Here's What That Means A Nature survey shows many scientists expect the virus that causes COVID-19 to become endemic, but it could pose less danger over time By Nicky Phillips,Nature magazine | February 2021

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