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December 05, 2022

Astronomy NASA's Plan to Make JWST Data Immediately Available Will Hurt Astronomy By releasing astronomers' data before they've had a chance to analyze the information, NASA will make research less fair and equitable By Jason Wright

Computing Discovery Helps Computers Draw Intricate Two-Dimensional Animations A new algorithm solves the long-standing "hidden line problem" of computer graphics By Lyndie Chiou

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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Pollution Los Angeles Bans New Oil Wells, Plans to Close Existing Ones The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to ban new oil and gas wells in the city and eventually close existing ones By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

Climate Change Indigenous Tribes in U.S. Will Get $75 Million for Climate Relocation Grants to Indigenous tribes in the U.S. totaling $75 million are the first from a new voluntary relocation program aimed at climate risks By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Evolution Ancient Sawfish Help to Illuminate Our Teeth's Scaly Origins Weird new evidence on tooth evolution tips the scales even more toward scales By Daniel Leonard

Animals Ants Can Produce Milk for Their Young (and Old) A nutritious fluid secreted by pupating ants helps to feed the rest of the colony and could play a part in the evolution of social structures By Miryam Naddaf,Nature magazine

Animals 'Chatty Turtles' Flip the Script on the Evolutionary Origins of Vocalization in Animals Recordings of more than 50 species of turtles and other animals help scientists reassess the origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates. By Pakinam Amer | 06:39

Water Poem: 'Uncertain-Sea Principle' Science in meter and verse By Richard Blanco

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