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March 13, 2023

Materials Science Controversy Surrounds Blockbuster Superconductivity Claim Will a possible breakthrough for room-temperature superconducting materials hold up to scrutiny? By Sophie Bushwick

Public Health 5 Things We've Learned from COVID in Three Years The World Health Organization declared the COVID outbreak a pandemic three years ago. Here's what's changed since then By Stephanie Pappas

Artificial Intelligence AI's Victories in Go Inspire Better Human Game Playing Famed AI wins in Go let human players rethink their moves in a whole new way By Emily Willingham

Sponsor Content Provided by Phenome Health The New Science of Disease Prevention U.S. Healthcare is Slowly Transitioning from Disease Treatment and Management to Wellness and Prevention

Psychology There's a Psychological 'Vaccine' against Misinformation A social psychologist found that showing people how manipulative techniques work can create resilience against misinformation By Daisy Yuhas

Evolution Inside the Scientific Quest to Save (Most) of the World's Parasites Scientists are on a mission to save parasites—not to kill them. Climate change is already doing an increasingly good job at the latter, and that could be a big problem for the world. By Emily V. Driscoll

Mental Health Vitamin D Supplements Probably Won't Prevent Mental Illness After All Despite the stream of "good news" about vitamin D, the supplement's prospects to prevent mental health disorders in adults remain dim By Ingrid Wickelgren

Weather Better Atmospheric River Forecasts Are Giving Emergency Planners More Time to Prepare for Flooding Knowing when torrents of rain will strike can save property and lives By F. Martin Ralph

Climate Change How the U.S. Cracked Down on a Potent Greenhouse Gas The U.S. government is celebrating some success at reining in emissions of a potent greenhouse gas called SF6, which traps 25,000 times more heat than CO2 does over a century-long timescale By John Fialka,E&E News

Sleep Changing Clocks to Daylight Saving Time Is Bad for Your Health A neurologist explains why our bodies fare better when aligned with the natural light of standard time By Beth Ann Malow,The Conversation US

FROM THE ARCHIVE First Room-Temperature Superconductor Excites and Baffles Scientists A compound of hydrogen, carbon and sulfur has broken a symbolic barrier—but its high-pressure conditions make it difficult to analyze By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine | October 2020

WHAT WE'RE READING Collagen Craze Drives Deforestation and Rights Abuses For the first time an investigation has linked collagen powder to violence against Indigenous peoples in Brazilian forests By Elisângela Mendonça , Andrew Wasley , Fábio Zuker | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | Mar. 6, 2023

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