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October 27, 2022

Planetary Science Earthly Microbes Might Survive on Mars for Hundreds of Millions of Years An organism nicknamed "Conan the Bacterium" may have what it takes to live on Mars By Keith Cooper,SPACE.com

Animals Ball-Rolling Bumble Bees Just Wanna Have Fun Tiny, soccer-playing bees raise questions about the inner lives of invertebrates By Grace van Deelen

Mathematics Citizens' Assemblies Are Upgrading Democracy: Fair Algorithms Are Part of the Program Math helps to randomly select the fairest citizens' assemblies since antiquity By Ariel Procaccia

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Climate Change Observatory on Mount Everest Must Be Saved, Scientists Say A research facility halfway up Mount Everest is crucial for research on climate change and biodiversity. And it's falling apart By Saugat Bolakhe

Planetary Science Space Station Experiment Maps Earth's Methane 'Super Emitters' NASA's EMIT instrument has found more than 50 methane super emitters in its first few months of operation—and that's not even its main job By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Artificial Intelligence AI Predicts What Chemicals Will Smell like to a Human A new computer model "maps" odor molecules to differentiate among those that have meaty, powdery, sweet and many other scents By Wynne Parry

Politics More Scientists Need to Run for Office. This Advocacy Group Is Teaching Them How In an age of science denial, we need more people with STEM backgrounds in elected positions By Shaughnessy Naughton

Education To Fight Misinformation, We Need to Teach That Science Is Dynamic Science is a social process, and teaching students how researchers work in tandem to develop facts will make them less likely to be duped by falsehoods By Carl T. Bergstrom,Daniel R. Pimentel,Jonathan Osborne

Reproduction These Drugs Could Restore a Period before Pregnancy Is Confirmed Menstrual regulation has a long history in the U.S., and new techniques could get around abortion restrictions By Mariana Lenharo

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