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March 22, 2023

Climate Change Spring Is Starting Earlier--It's Not Your Imagination Birds are heading north before their insect prey emerge. Bees are missing out on early blossoms. Ticks and other pests have more time to feast and spread disease By Jude Coleman

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Helped Make the Coolest Song You've Heard This Week Machine-learning algorithms are getting so good that they can translate Western instruments into Thai ones with ease. By Allison Parshall | 13:24

Planetary Science Volcanic Activity on Mars Upends Red Planet Assumptions A mass of moving material on Mars called a mantle plume may be causing marsquakes and volcanism By Phil Plait

Space Exploration Health Research Is Needed Now before Sending Civilians to Space Now is the time to protect the health and safety of civilians who will be traveling, living and working in the dangerous environment of space By Michael Marge

Climate Change Use Nature as Infrastructure In the climate crisis, wetlands have more economic value than new development By The Editors

Pollution 'Plasticosis' in Seabirds Could Herald New Era of Animal Disease Ocean animals are growing sicker from ingesting too much plastic By Matthew Savoca,The Conversation US

Astronomy Was 'Oumuamua, the First Known Interstellar Object, Less Weird Than We Thought? A new study suggests that ’Oumuamua, the mysterious visitor that whizzed through our solar system in 2017, may have been merely a small comet from another star By Meghan Bartels

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 4

FROM THE ARCHIVE Millions of Birds Are Migrating Earlier Because of Warming Weather radar data shows that many North American species are shifting their spring migration by two days each decade By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News | December 2019

WHAT WE'RE READING Should Nature Endorse Political Candidates? Yes -- When the Occasion Demands It Political endorsements might not always win hearts and minds, but when candidates threaten a retreat from reason, science must speak out. By Editorial | Nature | Mar. 20, 2023

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