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April 27, 2022

Cancer How to Tell whether a Cancer Is Caused by Plain Bad Luck A new study offers a possible answer to the question "Why me?" By Viviane Callier

Psychology Darwin Was Wrong: Your Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Your Emotions The emotion AI industry, courts and child educators are unknowingly relying on a misunderstanding of Darwin's ideas By Lisa Feldman Barrett

Oceans A Major Ocean Current Is at Its Weakest Point in 1,000 Years Natural variations are currently the main cause, but climate change should continue to cause it to slow down By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Engineering Record-Breaking Jumping Robot Can Leap a 10-Story Building To propel itself higher than any known engineered jumper or animal can, it had to ignore the limits of biology By Sophie Bushwick

Creativity Brainstorming on Zoom Hampers Creativity Turning off the camera when trying to hash out new ideas might help By Bret Stetka

Particle Physics Large Hadron Collider Seeks New Particles after Major Upgrade Long-awaited boosts to the world's most powerful collider could spur breakthroughs in the hunt for physics beyond the Standard Model By Daniel Garisto

Inequality People Think Minority Groups Are Bigger Than They Really Are Overestimating minority populations can lead to reduced support for diversity and inclusion programs By Emily Willingham

History Will War Ever End? As the war in Ukraine intensifies, rather than prepare for future wars, we should talk about ending war once and for all By John Horgan

Economics An Old-Fashioned Economic Tool Can Tame Pricing Algorithms Left unchecked, pricing algorithms might unintentionally discriminate and collude to fix prices By Ethan Wilk

Computing Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it. By Katie Hafner,The Lost Women of Science Initiative | 04:33

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FROM THE ARCHIVE A Wave of New Cancer Treatments Challenges Community Oncologists to Keep Up Partnerships with top research centers, along with advanced technology, may help local doctors offer patients the latest therapies By Claudia Wallis | April 2022

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