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November 16, 2022

Space Exploration Artemis I Launches U.S.'s Long-Awaited Return to the Moon The first flight test of the world's most powerful rocket will send an uncrewed spacecraft to lunar orbit and back By Nadia Drake

Climate Change Egypt's Climate Scientists Hope for 'Actions, Not Just Words' at COP27 Four Egyptian researchers spoke about how they're contributing to the fight against climate change as their country hosts the COP27 global climate summit By Miryam Naddaf,Nature magazine

Health Care Who Is Dying from COVID Now, and Why Nearly three years into the pandemic, COVID's mortality burden is growing in certain groups of people By Melody Schreiber

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Climate Change Climate Aid Is Lacking for Poor Countries That Burn Few Fossil Fuels New funding programs announced at COP27 are helping poor countries transition away from fossil fuels, but the money isn't going to places without energy By Jean Chemnick,E&E News

Astronomy Invisible Numbers Are the Most Beautiful Part of Every 'Space' Image We are drawn to breathtaking images of the heavens, but there is beauty in the numbers those images hold By Fabio Pacucci

Public Health Are Gas Stoves Bad for Our Health? Evidence is building that fumes from gas stoves can aggravate lung ailments By Claudia Wallis

Natural Disasters Why California Wildfires Burned Far Less This Year Though California has seen millions of acres burn from wildfires in recent years as a changing climate brings high temperatures and persistent drought, several factors led to a quiet 2022 fire season By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

Sociology The World Population Just Hit 8 Billion and Here's How It Will Continue to Grow United Nations model predicts a slower rate of population growth than was previously estimated By David Adam,Nature magazine

Mental Health Mental Health Apps Are Not Keeping Your Data Safe With little regulation and sometimes outright deception, the possibility of discrimination and other "data harms" is high By Piers Gooding,Timothy Kariotis

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