The perks of four-day workweeks, bumblebees have culture, epic CA snowfall

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March 07, 2023

Mental Health A Four-Day Workweek Reduces Stress without Hurting Productivity The results of a test involving dozens of employers and thousands of employees suggests that working only four days instead of five is good for workers' well-being—without hurting companies By Jan Dönges,Sophie Bushwick

Animals Bumblebees Show Off Their Own Puzzle-Solving Culture Like chimpanzees, bees can learn specific strategies for opening a puzzle box and accessing a reward inside by mimicking the behavior of their trained mates By Rachel Nuwer

Climate Change Old Bomber Plane Will Sniff the Sky for Geoengineering Particles NOAA will use a converted Air Force bomber to search the upper atmosphere for substances that could help the U.S. reflect sunlight away from Earth By John Fialka,E&E News

Animals How Octopus Arms Bypass the Brain A secret pattern links far-flung octopus limbs By Nora Bradford

Fitness This Formula Calculates How Many Calories You Burn If You're Doing Absolutely Nothing When it comes to dieting, here's how to tally the so-called basal metabolic rate By Florian Freistetter

Cognition Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense Plato was right: newborns do math By Jacob Beck,Sam Clarke

Water 'Pretty Epic' Mountain Snowfall Stuns Californians A near-record amount of snow in California could ease some water restrictions after years of climate-change-fueled drought By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

Artificial Intelligence These Researchers Used AI to Design a Completely New 'Animal Robot' "Xenobots" are living, swimming self-powered robots that measure less than a millimeter across. They are evolved by artificial intelligence and built out of frog stem cells—and they could open new medical frontiers. By Luke Groskin

FROM THE ARCHIVE Why People Refuse to Believe Scientists It has nothing to do with science itself By Katharine Hayhoe,Jen Schwartz | October 2017

WHAT WE'RE READING 'Believe nothing you hear.' Distrust reigns among East Palestine residents By Taylor Wizner and Stephanie Czekalinski | Ideastream Public Media | Mar. 2, 2023

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