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March 15, 2023

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

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

Reproduction Mice with Two Fathers? Researchers Develop Egg Cells from Male Mice The research offers a tantalizing glimpse at a future in which two men can have biological children together, but any human applications remain in the distant future By Meghan Bartels

Vaccines RSV Vaccines Are Coming At Last: Your Health, Quickly, Episode 2 A vaccine pioneer tells us that shots to protect against RSV—a dangerous virus for babies and older people—are finally nearing approval. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Tulika Bose | 09:07

Reproduction How Medication Abortion with RU-486/Mifepristone Works A step-by-step look at how these drugs end pregnancy By Megha Satyanarayana,Mesa Schumacher

Fossil Fuels Environmental and Indigenous Groups Sue over Willow Oil-Drilling Project A coalition of environmental and Indigenous groups is suing the Biden administration over the approval of the Willow oil- and gas-drilling project in Alaska, arguing the government failed to consider the climate risks, as well as harm to wildlife and subsistence hunting By Niina H. Farah,E&E News

FROM THE ARCHIVE Why Did Flu Season Start So Early This Year? Reduced population immunity resulting from COVID precautions, and a phenomenon called viral interference, may have influenced this flu season's early start By Mariana Lenharo | November 2022

WHAT WE'RE READING Giant Seaweed Blob Twice the Width of the US Takes Aim at Florida Marine scientists are tracking a 5,000-mile-wide seaweed bloom that is so large, it can be seen from space. By Rachel Tucker | The Hill | Mar. 13, 2023

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