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January 12, 2023

Plants See the Largest Flower Ever Found Encased in Amber A rare flower encased in amber is the largest one ever found and dates from around 40 million years ago By Jack Tamisiea

Inequality Half of the 250 Kids Expelled from Preschool Each Day Are Black Boys Racism and overstressed teachers help explain high expulsion rates for Black preschool boys By Sara Novak

Genetics Ancient Americans Crossed Back into Siberia in a Two-Way Migration, New Evidence Shows Scientists have long known that ancient people living in Siberia made their way into what is now North America. Mounting DNA evidence suggests migration also happened in the opposite direction By Freda Kreier

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Medicine Leona Zacharias Helped Solve a Blindness Epidemic among Premature Babies. She Received Little Credit In the first Lost Women of Science Shorts podcast, host Katie Hafner dives into the life and work of Leona Zacharias—a brilliant researcher who, before reporting this story, Hafner only knew as her grandmother By Katie Hafner,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Astronomy A Recently Discovered Gas Cloud Near Andromeda Stumps Astronomers Clues to the origin of this enormous cloud of gas have been maddeningly vague By Phil Plait

Oceans Oceans Break Heat Record for Fourth Year in a Row The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Particle Physics Scientists See Quantum Interference between Different Kinds of Particles for First Time A newly discovered interaction related to quantum entanglement between dissimilar particles opens a new window into the nuclei of atoms By Stephanie Pappas

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 28, Issue 4s

FROM THE ARCHIVE Fragrant Genes of Extinct Flowers Have Been Brought Back to Life   The genes of Hawaiian plants, extinct for more than a century, have been brought back from the dead. Today we can smell their scents By Rowan Jacobsen | February 2019

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Until we reach net zero emissions, that heating will continue, and we'll continue to break ocean heat content records, as we did this year." Michael Mann, climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of an ocean study released this week.

WHAT WE'RE READING A Total Amateur May Have Just Rewritten Human History With Bombshell Discovery Ben Bacon is "effectively a person off the street," but he and his academic co-authors think they've found the earliest writing in human history. By Becky Ferreira | Vice | Jan. 5, 2023

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