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February 17, 2023

Neuroscience Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system By Stephani Sutherland

Black Holes Quantum Entanglement Isn't All That Spooky After All The way we teach quantum theory conveys a spookiness that isn't actually there By Chris Ferrie

Microbiology Could the Zombie Fungus in TV's The Last of Us Really Infect People? The pandemic fungus in the television program The Last of Us is real. But an expert says other fungi are much more threatening to humans By Allison Parshall

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Epidemiology Do Repeat COVID Infections Increase the Risk of Severe Disease or Long COVID? Many repeat infections are mild, but some studies suggest people who have been infected with COVID more than once are at a greater risk of severe disease or long COVID By Charles Schmidt

Astronomy The Asteroid Blast That Shook the World Is Still Making an Impact The Chelyabinsk asteroid slammed into Earth's atmosphere 10 years ago, the largest impact in more than a century By Phil Plait

Defense Why We're Suddenly Spotting Spy Balloons Every question we have about the airborne objects that may or may not be spying on the U.S. By Sophie Bushwick

Psychology Love and the Brain, Part 1: The 36 Questions, Revisited Host Shayla Love dives into the true story behind the now infamous 36 questions that lead to love. By Shayla Love | 12:27

Renewable Energy Biden Administration Bets $74 Million on 'Enhanced' Geothermal Power A Department of Energy grant aims to cut the cost of new geothermal systems that generate electricity from heat that is miles underground By Minho Kim,E&E News

Plants Do Trees Really Support Each Other through a Network of Fungi? Trees communicate and cooperate through a fungal web, according to a widespread idea. But not everyone is convinced By Stephanie Pappas

Psychology The Best Way to Boost Workers' Mental Health Is to Give Them Good Managers To improve workers' health, research shows, companies need to support "transformational" leaders and weed out "destructive" actors, not just tout wellness programs By Daisy Grewal

Astronomy 'Impossible' New Ring System Discovered at the Edge of the Solar System Astronomers are puzzled by a ring around the icy dwarf planet Quaoar that is much farther from its parent body than thought possible By Robert Lea,LiveScience

Computing How ChatGPT Can Improve Education, Not Threaten it A professor explains why he is allowing students to incorporate ChatGPT into their writing process instead of banning the new technology By John Villasenor

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BRING SCIENCE HOME Gravity-Powered Sorting Machine Want to sort through objects of different sizes quickly? Engineer a simple machine to do it for you!  Credit: George Retseck Have you ever used a coin-sorting machine to separate pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters? When you need to separate things that are all mixed together, using a machine can be much faster than picking them apart by hand. In this project you will build a machine that can automatically separate two different size marbles—powered by nothing but gravity!

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