How Gaslighting Manipulates Reality

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September 22, 2022

Psychology How Gaslighting Manipulates Reality Gaslighting isn't just between people in a relationship—it involves social power, too By Paige L. Sweet

Quantum Physics Quantum Physics Titans Win Breakthrough Prize This year's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics honors some of the pioneers of quantum information science By Daniel Garisto

Biotech AlphaFold Developers Win $3-Million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences DeepMind's system for predicting the 3D structure of proteins is among five recipients of science's most lucrative awards By Zeeya Merali,Nature magazine

Engineering The First Lady of Engineering: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1 Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. The third season of the Lost Women of Science podcast begins at the start of her story, during her unconventional childhood in the segregated South By Katie Hafner,Carol Sutton Lewis,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Health Care People of Color with Long COVID Face Uphill Battle to Be Heard Medical discrimination and a lack of data make it difficult for people of color to get help for post-COVID problems By Troy Farah

Astronomy Sparkly Image of Neptune's Rings Comes into View from JWST See a stunning new view of Neptune's rings and oddball moon Triton from the James Webb Space Telescope By Jeanna Bryner

Astronomy JWST's First Exoplanet Images Forecast a Bright Future The James Webb Space Telescope's snapshots of a giant world orbiting another star show that the observatory is performing even better than expected and that its best exoplanet images are yet to come By Daniel Leonard

Climate Change Extreme Heat Saps Billions in Worker Productivity Annual worker productivity losses from extreme heat amounted to $44 billion on average across 12 cities and are projected to rise to $84 billion by 2050 By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Privacy How Census Data Put Trans Children at Risk The Census Bureau must improve its data anonymization methods to protect vulnerable groups By Os Keyes,Abraham D. Flaxman

Genetics Quantum Tunneling Makes DNA More Unstable The freaky physics phenomenon of quantum tunneling may mutate genes By Lars Fischer,Gary Stix

Anatomy Chewing Consumes a Surprising Amount of Energy Chomping on food takes so much energy that it shaped human evolution. Our ancestors spent many hours a day chewing, which may have shaped our teeth and jaws. By Christopher Intagliata | 03:28

Climate Change Climate Polluters Should Pay a Tax for Damages, U.N. Chief Says U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has decried fossil-fuel companies receiving subsidies and investment "while household budgets shrink and our planet burns" By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

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