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October 28, 2022

Quantum Physics Researchers Use Quantum 'Telepathy' to Win an 'Impossible' Game A new playful demonstration of quantum pseudotelepathy could lead to advances in communication and computation By Philip Ball

Evolution Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted By Jeremy DeSilva

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

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Quantum Physics The Beauty at the Heart of a 'Spooky' Mystery Quantum entanglement seems like it shouldn't be possible, but experiments from 2022 Nobel Prize winners based on John Bell's work tell us otherwise By John Horgan

Vaccines New Halloween 'Scariant' Variants and Boosting Your Immunity: COVID, Quickly, Episode 41 In a new episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we talk about the variants that are likely to be around this winter and how boosters help even if you've already had the disease. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 07:31

Neuroscience Some People Who Appear to Be in a Coma May Actually Be Conscious Brain scans reveal that some people who can't speak or move are aware of the world around them By Jan Claassen,Brian L. Edlow

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

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

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

Public Health Diseases Explode after Extreme Flooding and Other Climate Disasters Devastating floods in Pakistan are driving the spread of disease—and climate change is making such events more common By Erin Biba

Astronomy Dazzling New JWST Image Shows Dusty Stellar Spirals A new JWST image of a star surrounded by strange, rippling spirals reveals a hidden chapter in the story of how dust spreads across the cosmos By Phil Plait

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BRING SCIENCE HOME Gravity-Defying Water Can you flip a cup of water without getting wet? Use a little physics, and give this expectation-bending activity a spin!  Credit: George Retseck Can you turn a cup of water upside-down without the water pouring out? Sounds impossible, right? This project will show you how you can do it using a neat physics trick!

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