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February 02, 2023

Particle Physics 'Unbelievable' Spinning Particles Probe Nature's Most Mysterious Force The strong force holds our atoms together. Scientists may have observed its small-scale fluctuations for the first time By Allison Parshall

Vaccines Should COVID Vaccines Be Given Yearly? Some scientists say the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's suggestion of updating COVID vaccines each year, as happens with influenza vaccines, could boost uptake. But others are less convinced By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Paleontology Five-Eyed, Nozzle-Nosed Oddity Lingered Far beyond the Cambrian Period This ancient creature swam in surprisingly modern seas By Riley Black

Sleep Let Teenagers Sleep Despite years of evidence that starting school later promotes better health and improved grades, too few schools have adopted this measure By The Editors

Pharmaceuticals How Antidepressants Help Bacteria Resist Antibiotics A laboratory study unravels ways antidepressants and other nonantibiotic drugs can contribute to drug resistance By Liam Drew,Nature

Astrophysics Should You Really Worry about Solar Flares? The sun is unleashing powerful outbursts that could strike Earth, but these events are far more common—and much less worrisome—than some hyped headlines suggest By Ed Browne

Reproduction Antiabortion Heartbeat Bills Are not Morally, Scientifically or Legally Sound A beating heart is neither a necessary nor sufficient standard to determine the start of life, making antiabortion heartbeat bills morally and legally wrong By Christina Han,Cara C. Heuser

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 30, Issue 5s

FROM THE ARCHIVE Quantum Particles Aren't Spinning. So Where Does Their Spin Come From? A new proposal seeks to solve the paradox of quantum spin By Adam Becker | November 2022

WHAT WE'RE READING Leprosy: The Ancient Disease Scientists Can't Solve Though it's been around for nearly 3,500 years, scientists are still missing many basic facts about the disease. By Kamala Thiagarajan | BBC | Jan. 24, 2023

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