To Keep Students in STEM fields, Let's Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes

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March 15, 2022

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

Paleontology Newly Discovered Saber-Tooth 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

Health Care Pandemic-Era Research Will Pay Off for Years The COVID research infrastructure will help fight all sorts of pathogens By Britt Glaunsinger

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

Climate Change War in Ukraine Does Not Diminish NATO's Need to Act on Climate, Report Says Addressing the climate crisis is a crucial aspect of maintaining the security of member states, a former official writes By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

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

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

Mental Health Your Kid Is Probably Not an 'Orchid' or a 'Dandelion'--But Could Be Both Most children have a unique profile of both sensitivity and resilience to outside pressures, responding with different degrees of vulnerability to difficult or beneficial circumstances By Jay Belsky

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

Culture Popular Health Claims, Such as a Woman's Fertility Dropping at Age 30, Are Wildly Overblown People should be skeptical of big claims based on only one study and dig a little deeper By Naomi Oreskes

Climate Change Russia's War in Ukraine Sends Tremors into the Arctic Experts worry tensions could spill into the polar region and potentially affect science and security By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

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