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November 18, 2022

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

Mathematics Mathematician Who Solved Prime-Number Riddle Claims New Breakthrough After shocking the mathematics community with a major result in 2013, Yitang Zhang now says he has solved an analog of the celebrated Riemann hypothesis By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

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

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Psychology 'Persuasion Fatigue' Is a Unique Form of Social Frustration When people argue, a kind of frustration called persuasion fatigue can cloud their judgment and harm relationships By Nathan Ballantyne,Jared Celniker,Peter Ditto

Cancer In First, Scientists Use CRISPR for Personalized Cancer Treatment The "most complicated therapy ever" tailors bespoke, genome-edited immune cells to attack tumors By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Space Exploration Is Space-Based Solar Power Ready for Its Moment in the Sun? Around the world, researchers are betting that beamed power from space could be the next big thing for clean energy on Earth By Leonard David

Space Exploration Filmmakers Find Section of Destroyed Space Shuttle Challenger on Ocean Floor Divers working on a television documentary were searching for a downed World War II aircraft when they instead discovered the NASA artifact By Robert Z. Pearlman,SPACE.com

Weather Weird Weather: How to Tell a Williwaw from a Haboob You may have endured a frost quake, pogonip or Saskatchewan screamer without knowing it. Take our tour of weird weather terms to find out By Mark Fischetti

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 The World Will Likely Miss 1.5 Degrees C--Why Isn't Anyone Saying So? Though many scientists say it's inevitable that the world will overshoot 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, the global climate talks unfolding in Egypt are bound to the target By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Animals A Honeybee Swarm Has as Much Electric Charge as a Thundercloud New research shows that bees "buzz" in more than the way you might think. By Shayla Love | 05:09

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

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 327, Issue 6

BRING SCIENCE HOME Hanging Around with Sound: Make Your Own Secret Bell! Do you hear what I hear? Make sound waves that only you can hear with this simple, secret bell! Credit: George Retseck Have you ever tried making "walkie-talkies" using a long piece of string and two tin cans? If you have, you know that they work surprisingly well—at longer distances you can hear people better through the cans and string than you can through the air! In this activity we're going to use the same concepts to build a personal bell, one that makes sounds that only you can hear!

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