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October 25, 2022

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

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

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

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Evolution Vertebrates May Have Used Vocal Communication More Than 100 Million Years Earlier Than We Thought Animals with a backbone may have first emitted something akin to bleeps, grunts, crackles, toots and snorts more than 400 million years ago By Rachel Nuwer

Climate Change 5 Things to Know about Climate Reparations There are growing calls for a mechanism to pay developing countries for losses and damages they've suffered from climate change—a problem they did little to create By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Public Health Which COVID Studies Pose a Biohazard? Controversy surrounding a study that involved modifying SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, has prompted researchers to call for better guidance from funders By Ewen Callaway,Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

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

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

Natural Disasters FEMA Avoids Past Pitfalls by Rushing Storm Aid to Puerto Rico Since Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, FEMA has approved disaster aid for thousands more individuals and households than received aid after Hurricane Maria in 2017 By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Oceans Rare Red Sea Brine Pool Holds Secrets of Past Natural Disasters An ultradense pool of salty water at the bottom of the ocean holds a pristine record of hundreds of years of tsunamis, earthquakes and floods By Stephanie Pappas

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