How the Brain Tells Apart Important and Unimportant Sensations

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May 16, 2022

Neuroscience How the Brain Tells Apart Important and Unimportant Sensations Several recent studies point to a small, long-overlooked structure in the brain stem as a crucial gatekeeper for the body's signals By Eiman Azim,Sliman Bensmaia,Lee E. Miller,Chris Versteeg

Medicine Science Still Doesn't Understand How Our Sex Affects Our Health Our X and Y chromosomes represent the biggest genetic difference in our species. Medicine routinely ignores their influence. Why? By Meghan McDonough

Health Care Gun Violence Is an Epidemic; Health Systems Must Step Up There are tools that hospitals can use to reduce the number of firearm injuries that come through the doors. We are piloting one such project By Michael Dowling,Chethan Sathya

Natural Disasters Climate Change Doubled the Likelihood of Devastating South African Floods Hundreds of people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed in Durban after torrential rains unleashed flooding By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Public Health How to Care for COVID at Home, and Is That Sniffle Allergies or the Virus? COVID Quickly, Episode 30 Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Tulika Bose | 08:18

Pollution Living with Lead Creates Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs' People are infected by bacteria that, after contacting heavy metals, develop drug-resistant traits By Allison Parshall

Privacy Yes, Phones Can Reveal if Someone Gets an Abortion To protect personal information from companies that sell data, some individuals are relying on privacy guides instead of government regulation or industry transparency By Sophie Bushwick

Reproduction To Better Understand Women's Health, We Need to Destigmatize Menstrual Blood Diseases such as endometriosis would have a cure if we could talk about them and study them without shame By Christine N. Metz

Medicine How To Treat COVID at Home Some over-the-counter medications can help symptoms, and there are ways to ease isolation By Lydia Denworth

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Mind, Volume 33, Issue 3

FROM THE ARCHIVE Our Brain Typically Overlooks This Brilliant Problem-Solving Strategy People often limit their creativity by continually adding new features to a design rather than removing existing ones By Diana Kwon | April 2021

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