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November 18, 2022

Natural Disasters Twitter Chaos Endangers Public Safety, Emergency Managers Warn Twitter is a crucial communication tool during disasters, but impersonators and other problems under Elon Musk's leadership have emergency managers on edge By Andrea Thompson

Neurology This Is How an Alzheimer's Gene Ravages the Brain Study in cells and mice suggests that the variant APOE4 affects the all-important insulation around nerve cells By Elie Dolgin,Nature magazine

Climate Change How a 'Carbon Cage' Blocks Climate Mitigation Our current carbon-heavy economic system creates bars around us that stop effective climate change action. By Kate Ervine

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Drug Use Antimicrobial Resistance Is Growing because of COVID Antibiotics won't work on the virus that causes COVID, but in places like India, their overuse threatens to nullify their effects on other equally deadly pathogens By Sumanth Gandra,Madhukar Pai

Climate Change Warming Worsened West Africa Floods That Killed 800 People Unusually heavy monsoon rains that caused deadly flooding in Nigeria were made 80 percent more likely by climate change By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Sports Sexist Science in Soccer Harms Women in an Epic Own Goal As players take the pitch for the men's World Cup, science supports their safety and equipment more than it does women's By Tanya Lewis

Materials Science Engineered Metamaterials Can Trick Light and Sound into Mind-Bending Behavior Advanced materials can modify waves, creating optical illusions and useful technologies By Andrea Alù

Geology Hidden 'Paleo Valleys' Could Help California Survive Droughts "Paleo valleys," carved by ice age rivers and now underground, could provide spaces to recharge California's depleted groundwater By Erica Gies

Climate Change Even Weak Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger as the Climate Warms Data collected by thousands of scientific instruments scattered across the world's oceans show that weak tropical cyclones are intensifying, not just stronger ones By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Diversity The Feminist Test We Keep Failing: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3 Bonus Episode There's a test that we at Lost Women of Science seem to fail again and again: the Finkbeiner Test.  By Katie Hafner,Carol Sutton Lewis,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Epidemiology Why Did Flu Season Start So Early This Year? Reduced population immunity resulting from COVID precautions, and a phenomenon called viral interference, may have influenced this flu season's early start By Mariana Lenharo

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