Earth’s innermost core, COVID’s threats during pregnancy, Google at the Supreme Court

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February 22, 2023

Geology Earth's Inner Core May Have an Inner Core Echoes from earthquakes suggest that Earth's solid inner core has its own core By Stephanie Pappas

Reproduction COVID Poses Severe Risks during Pregnancy, Especially in Unvaccinated People Pregnant people infected with SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit or die than those who are uninfected, but vaccination significantly reduces the risk By Tanya Lewis

Politics Why Google's Supreme Court Case Could Rattle the Internet Gonzalez v. Google seeks to hold tech giants accountable for recommendation algorithms in a complicated case that could see the Supreme Court meddle in more than 25 years of Internet policy By Meghan Bartels

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Quantum Physics Tiny Bubbles of Primordial Soup Re-create Early Universe New experiments can re-create the young cosmos, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before By Clara Moskowitz

Particle Physics This Particle Accelerator Makes a Substance That Has Not Existed in 13 Billion Years By using one of the most complicated and powerful machines on the planet, scientists have found a way to glimpse back to the very beginning of time itself. By Jason Drakeford,Clara Moskowitz,Jeffery DelViscio

Extraterrestrial Life How Do We Find Aliens? Maybe Unlearn What We Know About 'Life' First Science might be redefining what "life out there" really means. By Clara Moskowitz,Sarah Scoles | 08:31

Natural Disasters How to Engineer Buildings That Withstand Earthquakes Though deadly quakes can't be prevented, science does have some ways to protect buildings—and the people inside them By Andrea Thompson

Renewable Energy U.S. Battery Installations Soared in 2022, Reshaping Power Grids The U.S. installed more battery storage last year than ever before, with California and Texas leading the way By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 320, Issue 3

FROM THE ARCHIVE Why Earth's Inner Core May Be Slowing Down The planet's solid inner core might rotate at a different rate than the rest of the planet, and that rate might be changing By Stephanie Pappas | January 2023

WHAT WE'RE READING One Year Inside a Radical New Approach to America's Overdose Crisis The case for harm reduction By Jeneen Interlandi | The New York Times | Feb. 22, 2023

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