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March 29, 2023

Public Health Rural Children Now Grow Slightly Taller than City Children in Wealthy Countries A new international study finds that the growth and development benefits of children living in cities may have diminished in the past two decades By Lauren J. Young

Planetary Science JWST Sees No Atmosphere on 'Earthlike' TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1b is probably an airless rock, but the same may not be true for its six Earth-sized siblings By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Microbiology Mysterious Microbes in Earth's Crust Might Help With the Climate Crisis Wherever we dig and however deep we dig we find microscopic living organisms. Could they eat the carbon we're pumping into the air? By Karen G. Lloyd,Peter Barry,David Terry Fine

Sociology How the Gun Became Integral to the Self-Identity of Millions of Americans The firearm as a totemlike symbol of personal identity emerged from the psychological insecurities of former enslavers after the Civil War By Sara Novak

Planetary Science Asteroid Didymos May Spin So Fast It Flings Rocks into Space The asteroid Didymos witnessed its companion get slammed by NASA’s DART spacecraft, and Didymos itself may have interesting activity By Meghan Bartels

Climate Change FEMA Will Give Extra Money to States for Low-Carbon Rebuilding after Disasters As part of its effort to prod the construction industry to go green, the Biden administration is providing new funding for rebuilding with low-carbon materials after disasters By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Biotech Bacterial 'Nanosyringe' Could Deliver Gene Therapy to Human Cells This novel injection system could help advance gene therapy by nimbly inserting gene-editing enzymes into a variety of cell types By Ingrid Wickelgren

Public Health Long COVID's Roots in the Brain: Your Health Quickly, Episode 3 Post-COVID symptoms can linger for months or years, and more and more evidence points to problems with the nervous system. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Kelso Harper | 08:33

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 27, Issue 1s

FROM THE ARCHIVE Does City Life Pose a Risk to Our Mental Health? Researchers are finding complex links between urban living and psychosis By Diana Kwon | September 2016

WHAT WE'RE READING How the Drug Industry Uses Fear of Fentanyl to Extract More Profit from Naloxone   By Lev Facher | STAT | Mar. 28, 2023

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