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December 21, 2022

Inequality The Opioid Epidemic Is Surging among Black People because of Unequal Access to Treatment Clinics and the most effective types of therapy are harder to find in communities where people of color live By Melba Newsome,Gioncarlo Valentine

Animals 6 Fascinating Things We Learned about Pet Dogs and Cats in 2022 This year we learned why dogs come in so many sizes, that puppy dog eyes are a real thing and that cats don't deserve their aloof rap By Andrea Thompson

Reproduction COVID Vaccines Can Temporarily Affect Menstruation, and Studying That Matters The COVID vaccines can affect menstrual cycles, but the changes are small and short-lived, research shows By Viki Male

Sponsor Content Provided by Battelle Climate Resilience: Impactful Innovation is Needed Today What's most needed right now are outcome-driven, scientific approaches committed to delivering breakthrough technologies and capabilities—ones that leverage the fundamental knowledge of the past and apply it in new mission-driven methods that reach beyond what is possible today.

Pollution E-Waste Could Become a 'Gold Mine' for Rare-Earth Elements Mining electronic waste for rare-earth elements while isolating the remaining toxic chemicals could help solve the global e-waste crisis By Michael Eisenstein

Sex & Gender Scientists Created Male and Female Cells from a Single Person Cells with XX or XY chromosomes provide researchers with a new tool to study how differences in sex chromosomes can influence health and development By Diana Kwon

Engineering The 60-Second Podcast Takes a Short Break--but Wait, There's More Scientific American's short-form podcast has been going for 16 years, 3 months, and 7 days, counting today, but it's time for us to evolve. By Jeffery DelViscio | 03:18

Space Exploration NASA's Pluto Spacecraft Begins New Mission at the Solar System's Edge New Horizons is about to wake up and study the Kuiper Belt, the universe and even Uranus and Neptune. But a new target to visit could trump them all By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Water How Water Cycles Can Help Prevent Disastrous Floods and Drought To prevent devastating droughts and floods, humanity can tune in to natural solutions to repair water cycles that human development has disrupted By Erica Gies

Renewable Energy Rusty Batteries Could Greatly Improve Grid Energy Storage Iron-air batteries have a "reversible rust" cycle that could store and discharge energy for far longer and at less cost than lithium-ion technology By John Fialka,E&E News

Memory How to Help People with Memory Loss Enjoy the Holidays As we gather for holidays, asking people with memory loss about past holiday events and traditions affects well-being and feelings of closeness By Michael R. Nadoff,Mary E. Dozier,The Conversation US

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FROM THE ARCHIVE A Wave of Resurgent Epidemics Has Hit the U.S. Resurgent outbreaks of infectious diseases are sickening thousands, and the causes are societal By Melinda Wenner Moyer | May 2018

QUOTE OF THE DAY "If you are a Black person and have an opioid use disorder, you are likely to receive treatment five years later than if you're a white person." Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.

WHAT WE'RE READING What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. After decades in the shadow of the reigning model for Alzheimer's disease, alternative explanations are finally getting the attention they deserve. By Yasemin Saplakoglu | Quanta | Dec. 8, 2022

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