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March 17, 2023

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

Extraterrestrial Life 'Unstable' Moons May Be Obliterating Alien Life across the Universe Collisions between moons and planets may be a regular danger for possible extraterrestrial life By Briley Lewis,LiveScience

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

Sponsor Content Provided by Battelle Climate Resilience: Impactful Innovation is Needed Today What's most needed right now are outcome-driven, scientific approaches committed to delivering breakthrough technologies and capabilities—ones that leverage the fundamental knowledge of the past and apply it in new mission-driven methods that reach beyond what is possible today.

Public Health How to Avoid the Dreaded Norovirus The so-called winter vomiting disease has been closing schools and hitting long-term care facilities this year. Here's what you should know By Lauren J. Young

Artificial Intelligence What the New GPT-4 AI Can Do OpenAI just released an updated version of its text-generating artificial intelligence program. Here's how GPT-4 improves on its predecessor By Sophie Bushwick

Animals Tiny Spider Fells Prey Many Times Its Size A spider that caught and devoured a much larger shrew for its meal adds to evidence that more spiders aren't strangers to dining on vertebrates By Jack Tamisiea

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

Climate Change Rich Countries Should Not Control the World's Sunlight, Experts Warn Interest is building in using solar geoengineering to combat climate warming, but experts warn it could have broad—and inequitable—impacts By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Energy Quantum Computing Is the Future, and Schools Need to Catch Up Top universities are finally bringing the excitement of the quantum future into the classroom By Olivia Lanes

Mathematics If the Mathematical Constant Pi Was a Song, What Would It Sound Like? Every year on Pi Day, we have a reason to celebrate one of math's most famous symbols. But this year we speak to someone who has captured it in song. By Jeffery DelViscio | 09:43

Health Care New Home Test Can Tell If You Have the Flu or COVID Flu and COVID symptoms are easily confused. A new home test—the first for flu—tells them apart in minutes By Allison Parshall

Particle Physics How Big Is a Proton? Neutrinos Weigh In A first-of-its-kind probe brings physicists one step closer to solving the proton radius puzzle By Anashe Bandari

BRING SCIENCE HOME Mesmerizing Fractals Can you find math in art? It's easy to see in fractals! You can make your own fractal prints--and track down these fascinating shapes in nature.  Credit: George Retseck Do you ever wonder what mathematicians study—and why? Most of what they do is complex and difficult to understand, but fractal art might give us a glimpse. Mathematicians study fractals, which are naturally occurring figures used in many branches of science and technology. But you don't have to be a mathematician to appreciate their beauty. Did you know you can also create one? In this activity you will get to take out some paint to make artwork—and discover how common fractals are.

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