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March 18, 2022

Epidemiology Even Mild COVID Can Increase the Risk of Heart Problems Scientists are just starting to unravel the disease’s long-term cardiac effects By Mariana Lenharo

Education To Keep Students in STEM fields, Let's Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes Reimagining calculus has changed several schools’ success rates. Here’s how By Pamela Burdman

Planetary Science China's First Moon Rocks Ignite Research Bonanza Samples collected by Chang’e-5 are revealing exciting insights into the moon’s evolution By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

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Paleontology Newly Discovered Saber-Toothed Predator Shows How Hypercarnivores Evolved A well-preserved fossil introduces a new species that lived in what is now California around 42 million years ago By Raegan Scharfetter

Epidemiology People, Not Science, Decide When a Pandemic Is Over Historians of the 1918 influenza pandemic discuss lessons for what the future of COVID might look like By Tanya Lewis

Defense How Investigators Use Online Evidence to Expose Possible War Crimes Researchers at the investigative collective Bellingcat scoured the Internet to verify the brutal use of cluster munitions in Ukraine By Janosch Deeg

Anatomy Where Are Genitals Represented in the Brain? The homunculus of textbook fame still does not take into account the relevant locations in the cerebral cortex that process touch for the sex organs By Dana G. Smith

Natural Disasters Starlink Offers Internet Access in Times of Crisis, but Is It Just a PR Stunt? There are no individual saviors for Tonga’s Internet infrastructure By Robin George Andrews

Inequality U.S. Records Reveal Bias against Muslim and Black Citizenship Applicants The likelihood of attending a naturalization ceremony is lower for Black people, men and people from Muslim-majority countries By Emily Willingham

Sociology How Do We End Wars? A Peace Researcher Puts Forward Some Innovative Approaches Young people and women need to be more involved in a continual process of averting armed conflict By Theodor Schaarschmidt

Public Health What Humanity Should Eat to Stay Healthy and Save the Planet What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world By Gayathri Vaidyanathan,Nature magazine

Artificial Intelligence Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake? New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.  By Sarah Vitak | 11:50

Defense Russia Is Using 'Digital Repression' to Suppress Dissent The Putin regime has a portfolio of digital tools to control information and crack down on protests within the country By Sophie Bushwick

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