It's Time To Rethink the Origins of Pain

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September 08, 2022

Psychology It's Time To Rethink the Origins of Pain Chronic pain is biochemical, but it's also psychological, and treatment needs to address how we think and feel about it By Haider Warraich

Climate Change Greenland Is Still Melting, and It's September The Greenland ice sheet just experienced one of its strongest late-season melt events on record By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Education Teaching about Racism Is Essential for Education Lessons about racial injustice help students understand reality By The Editors

Particle Physics Physicists Struggle to Unite Around Future Plans Over 10 days, researchers participating in the once-a-decade "Snowmass process" attempted to build a unified scientific vision for the future of particle physics By Daniel Garisto

Mental Health The Number of Children Orphaned by COVID Keeps Rising HIV has taught us how to care for children who have lost a parent, but more countries need to step up By Juliette Unwin

Public Health Why So Few Young Kids Are Vaccinated against COVID--And How to Change That A small fraction of young children in the U.S. are vaccinated against COVID. Pediatricians can help By Tanya Lewis

Animals These Tiny Pollinators Can Travel Surprisingly Huge Distances It turns out that hoverflies may fly hundreds or even thousands of miles—all to help pollinate our flowers and vegetables. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:06

Materials Science Poem: 'Aerogel: A Quintain' Science in meter and verse By Christopher Norris

Artificial Intelligence To Clear Deadly Land Mines, Science Turns to Drones and Machine Learning In a field in Oklahoma, researchers are using new technology to spot deadly munitions built to maim and kill By Andrew Robinson,Dominic Smith

FROM THE STORE Revolutions in Science Normally science proceeds in incremental steps, but sometimes a discovery is so profound that it causes a paradigm shift. This eBook is a collection of articles about those kinds of advances, including revolutionary discoveries about the origin of life, theories of learning, formation of the solar system and more. *Editor's Note: Revolutions in Science was originally published as a Collector's Edition. The eBook adaptation contains all of the articles, but some of the artwork has been removed to optimize viewing on mobile devices.

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