10 Years after the Higgs, Physicists Are Optimistic for More Discoveries

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Quantum Physics 10 Years after the Higgs, Physicists Are Optimistic for More Discoveries The Large Hadron Collider recently reopened after upgrades and is ready to explore new territory By Marcela Carena

Mathematics Ukrainian Mathematician Becomes Second Woman to Win Prestigious Fields Medal Maryna Viazovska, who works on the geometry of spheres, is one of four winners of the coveted prize this year By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Politics Evidence Shouldn't Be Optional This Supreme Court often ignores science when handing down decisions, and it affects far too many lives By The Editors

Dinosaurs Feathers May Have Helped Dinosaurs Survive Their First Apocalypse Geologic evidence for a freezing arctic suggests dinosaurs could have weathered an epoch-ending volcanic winter By Sasha Warren

Mental Health A Single, Quick 'Mindset' Exercise Protects against Adolescent Stress Reframing erroneous beliefs alleviates the emotional upheavals that beset young people on the cusp of adulthood By Lydia Denworth

Evolution Toxic Slime Contributed to Earth's Worst Mass Extinction--And It's Making a Comeback Global warming fueled rampant overgrowth of microbes at the end of the Permian period. Such lethal blooms may be on the rise again By Chris Mays,Vivi Vajda,Stephen McLoughlin

Vaccines Omicron-Specific COVID Boosters Are Coming The FDA has called for updating COVID vaccines to address the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. But will the shots keep up with the virus? By Charles Schmidt

Water Skies Are Sucking More Water from the Land Western states' "atmospheric thirst" means more fires and strained water supplies By Ula Chrobak

Astrophysics Why Do Astronomers Seek the Most Distant Galaxies? By finding and studying the universe's oldest objects, we can reveal hidden fundamental chapters of cosmic history By Fabio Pacucci

Health Care An Implantable Ice Pack Tries to Relieve Pain without Opioids The dissolving device precisely targets individual nerves By Stephani Sutherland

Policy Supreme Court Decision Hinders EPA but Leaves Avenues Open for Climate Regulation The agency can still impose stronger limits on other air pollutants that coal plants produce, which could also reduce greenhouse gas emissions By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Reproduction How Abortion Medications Differ from Plan B and Other Emergency Contraceptives Drugs such as mifepristone and misoprostol end a pregnancy, whereas the "morning-after pill" works by preventing one By Tanya Lewis

FROM THE STORE The Math of Everything Galileo said that mathematics is the language of nature. This eBook examines math across disciplines, exploring how math is the backbone connecting the physical, social and economic worlds. From practical questions about the significance of p values and using math to fight gerrymandering to the top theoretical problems in the field, this collection looks at what math reveals about our universe.

BRING SCIENCE HOME Now You See It... Testing Out Light Refraction Make a straw vasnish before your eyes--with the amazing duo of refracting and reflecting light. It's not magic, it's science! Credit: George Retseck If you pour water into a clear glass, what color is it? It's clear, right? But what happens if you try to look through it to see the world on the other side of the glass? It looks a little distorted, maybe a little fuzzier and uneven. If water is clear, why can't we see through it clearly? The answer has to do with how light moves through water, glass and other transparent materials. Similar to when you try to run in a swimming pool, when light tries to move through water or glass it gets slowed down. When light is slowed down, it either bounces off the material or is bent as it passes through. We can see these changes in light, which indicates to us that something is there. In this activity you will play with light to make normal objects appear and disappear!

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