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November 22, 2022

Particle Physics Quantum Particles Aren't Spinning. So Where Does Their Spin Come From? A new proposal seeks to solve the paradox of quantum spin By Adam Becker

Climate Change How Will Men's World Cup Soccer Players Cope with Qatar Heat? The question of how to preserve athletic performance amid extreme heat, including at the World Cup in Qatar, is pressing as climate change bites By Katharine Sanderson,Nature magazine

Vaccines Antivirals Could Reduce Long COVID Risk, and How Well the New Boosters Work: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 43 In this new episode of our coronavirus podcast, we discuss a study that looked at the effects of Paxlovid on long COVID symptoms, and we also talk new bivalent boosters and immunity. By Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 04:46

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Neurology Is a Diagnostic Test to Blame for Why We Know So Little about Autism in Girls? A standard diagnostic test may be one reason autism research includes so few female participants   By Ingrid Wickelgren

Fossil Fuels U.S. Renewable Energy Will Surge Past Coal and Nuclear by Year's End Wind, solar and hydropower will generate more than 20 percent of the power supply By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Mathematics Why 2 Is the Best Number and Other Secrets from a MacArthur-Winning Mathematician Mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood seeks creative ways of solving open math problems By Rachel Crowell

Politics How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence Pundits are weaponizing disgust to fuel violence, and it’s affecting our humanity By Bryn Nelson

Computing The Leap Second's Time Is Up: World Votes to Stop Pausing Clocks How, and whether, to keep atomic time in sync with Earth’s rotation is still up for debate By Elizabeth Gibney,Nature magazine

Mental Health We Need To Change The System That Keeps Pilots From Seeking Mental Health Care As travel ramps up again, our data show that many pilots refuse to seek health care out of fear they will be pulled from flying By William R. Hoffman

Computing It's Time to Open the Black Box of Social Media Social media companies need to give their data to independent researchers to better understand how to keep users safe By Renée DiResta,Laura Edelson,Brendan Nyhan,Ethan Zuckerman

Public Health These UV Devices Could Keep Indoor Air Free of Viruses Devices using shorter UV light could keep indoor air free of viruses without harming human health By Eric Bender

Climate Change Climate Models Could Help Predict Future Disease Outbreaks Lessons from climate modeling could be used to help prepare for future disease outbreaks By Laura Vargas-Parada

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