When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight?

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June 14, 2022

Mental Health When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight? The psychiatric syndrome called derealization raises profound moral and philosophical questions By John Horgan

Robotics Tiny, Tumbling Origami Robots Could Help with Targeted Drug Delivery The design's origami pattern creates the flexibility needed to deliver compounds to specific areas of the body By Fionna M. D. Samuels

Cancer We Must End Ageism in Cancer Clinical Trials Older patients are underrepresented in clinical trial research. Here's how we can change that By Dany Habr

Pharmaceuticals Common Drugs Pollute Rivers on Every Continent A global look reveals contamination by antibiotics, antidepressants and other medications By Andrea Thompson

Conservation Poem: 'Vaulted Seeds,' after the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Science in meter and verse By Brittney Corrigan

Renewable Energy Engineers Look to River and Ocean Currents for Clean Energy The Department of Energy is helping to fund 11 projects that are designed to harness the power of moving water By John Fialka,E&E News

Genetics How Parachute Frogs Took to the Sky Broad-webbed feet help them glide through rain-forest canopies By Jack Tamisiea

Animals Wiggling Whiskers Help Hungry Seals Hunt in the Dark A new seal's-eye view shows these specialized hairs in motion at sea By Sasha Warren

Health Care Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone, a new study says By Rachel Nuwer

Vaccines COVID Death Rates Explained, Dismal Booster Stats and New Vaccines On this episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we clear up some data misconceptions, get to the bottom of the booster uptake issue and talk Novavax. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio,Tulika Bose | 07:50

Health Care Utah Kept Them from Learning about Consent, So These Teens Found a Place to Have 'the Talk' Together A group of teenagers in rural Utah are training to become sex educators so that they can teach their peers what they do not learn in the classroom By Jesse Ryan

Evolution Heated Debate Persists over the Origins of Complex Cells Were mitochondria a driving evolutionary force or just a late addition? By Viviane Callier,Knowable Magazine

FROM THE STORE Truth vs Lies How do we navigate the post-truth era, when there is no longer an expectation that politicians or pundits will be honest? In this eBook, we break down the science of deception so that we can protect ourselves against it. We look at human perception and how those perceptions are influenced using technology as well as provide interventions for combating bias and antiscience thinking. *Editor's Note: This Collector's Edition was published as Truth vs Lies. The eBook adaptation contains all of the articles, but some of the artwork has been removed to optimize viewing on tablet devices.

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