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February 01, 2023

Cognition What Causes Déjà Vu? Does this all feel a little familiar? Called déjà vu, that sensation may be your brain correcting its own errors By Stephanie Pappas

Animals Size, Sex and Breed May Predict Dogs' Cancer Diagnosis A study of more than 3,000 dogs finds that larger breeds, males and purebred animals tend to be diagnosed with cancer at a younger age By Diana Kwon

Genetics Can We Stop Aging? What really happens to our bodies when we age — and could we find a way to slow it down? By Michael Tabb,Tulika Bose

Astrophysics Weird Supernova Remnant Blows Scientists' Minds Fireworks display from rare dying star is unlike anything astronomers have seen By Shannon Hall,Nature magazine

Public Health Antibiotic-Resistant UTIs Are Common, and Other Infections May Soon Be Resistant, Too Urinary tract infections are increasingly becoming resistant to first-line antibiotics, and this may be a warning for our ability to treat other microbial infections By Jaimie Seaton

Climate Change More Airports to Use Greener 'Glide' Approach to Landing A growing number of U.S. airports are trying swoop landings rather than staircase descents, a method that saves fuel, cuts emissions and reduces noise By Minho Kim,E&E News

History 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: February 2023 Paranoid computer; Mount Everest not the highest By Mark Fischetti

Ecology A 'De-Extinction' Company Wants to Bring Back the Dodo The de-extinction company known for its plans to resurrect the mammoth and Tasmanian tiger announces it will also bring back the dodo By Christine Kenneally

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 31, Issue 1s

FROM THE ARCHIVE Does Brain Size Matter? Turns out some species are better endowed than we are in key cognitive regions By Christof Koch | January 2016

QUOTE OF THE DAY "As I age, it's disappointing to me, because I used to have much more déjà vu than I have now." Chris Moulin, cognitive neuropsychologist at the Grenoble Alpes University in France, who studies déjà vu.

WHAT WE'RE READING This Maine Home Can Stay 70 Degrees Without a Furnace, Even When it's Freezing Outside The passive concept is being used to construct buildings throughout the U.S. By Keith Shortall | Maine Public | Jan. 25th, 2023

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