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February 09, 2023

Computing New Exascale Supercomputer Can Do a Quintillion Calculations a Second New “exascale” supercomputers will bring breakthroughs in science. But the technology also exists to study nuclear weapons By Sarah Scoles

Medicine New COVID Antiviral Cuts Hospitalizations in Half An injection of a type of interferon drastically reduced the risk of severe COVID in a late-stage trial By Simon Makin

Reproduction A Common Antibiotic Could Prevent Deaths from Childbirth Complications One in three cases of maternal sepsis can be prevented with a single dose of antibiotic, a study in low- and middle-income countries shows By Allison Parshall

Archaeology Surprising Chemicals Were Used to Embalm Egyptian Mummies Resins used by ancient Egyptians to prepare bodies for the afterlife are found in vessels in a 2,500-year-old workshop By Ewen Callaway,Nature magazine

Exercise We Can Make Football Safer Through better equipment, improved knowledge of head injury, and better medical care, we can mitigate the effects of concussion at all levels of football By Steven Broglio

Climate Change Inside the Race to Find Earth's Oldest Ice A global race is on to drill for the oldest known layers of Antarctic ice so researchers can peer back in time to a warmer climate to better understand the planet’s hotter future By Christian Elliott

Climate Change Solving Cement's Massive Carbon Problem New techniques and novel ingredients can greatly reduce the immense carbon emissions from cement and concrete production By Mark Fischetti,Nick Bockelman,Wil V. Srubar

Artificial Intelligence Coming Soon to Your Podcast Feed: Science, Quickly A new era in Scientific American audio history is about to drop starting next week—get ready for a science variety show guaranteed to quench your curiosity in under 10 minutes. By Jeffery DelViscio,Tulika Bose | 04:10

FROM THE STORE Mathematics in the 21st Century   One of the most powerful tools in the science arsenal, mathematics allows scientists across disciplines to test hypotheses about the real world. In this eBook, we look at important recent advances in the field and examine the role of modeling and statistical analysis in understanding biology, physics, politics and more.

FROM THE ARCHIVE The U.S. Needs a National Strategic Computing Reserve One year after supercomputers worked together to fight COVID, it’s time to broaden the partnership to prepare for other crises By Manish Parashar,Amy Friedlander | June 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Supercomputers are essentially brute-force tools. So you have to use them in intelligent ways. And that's where the fun comes in, where you scratch your head and say, 'How can I actually use this possibly blunt instrument to do what I really want to do?'" Salman Habib, director of the computational science division at Argonne National Laboratory.

WHAT WE'RE READING Turkey Earthquake: Why Did So Many Buildings Collapse? The sight of newly constructed apartments collapsing in the earthquakes that hit Turkey has sparked anger. The BBC examined three new buildings, turned to rubble, to find out what they reveal about building safety. By Jake Horton & William Armstrong | BBC | Jan. 9, 2023

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