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March 30, 2023

Public Health A Valuable Early-warning System for Disease Outbreaks Could Be Shut Down Uncertain funding means wastewater surveillance programs could close in the future By Betsy Ladyzhets

Astrophysics Recent Gamma-Ray Burst May Be the Brightest Ever Seen The “absolutely monstrous” cosmic blast is estimated to be a 1-in-10,000-year event By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Reproduction Nationwide Effort to Track Abortions Found Thousands Fewer People Got Them after Dobbs The end of Roe reshaped abortion access across the U.S. What does it take to track those changes? By Rebecca Grant,Undark

Weather Northern Lights Dance across U.S. because of 'Stealthy' Sun Eruptions A severe geomagnetic storm created auroras that were visible as far south as Arizona in the U.S. By Allison Parshall

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Climate Change Hunters and Anglers Are Critical to Climate Change Action Tens of millions of people who hunt and fish are witnesses to climate change, and they are a critical constituency in efforts to reduce global warming By Tiffany Turner

Climate Change The U.S. Can Hit Its 2030 Climate Goals, but a Lot Has to Go Right The U.S. is in a better place to reach its climate goals after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure bill, but the implementation of pollution rules and the outcome of the 2024 election could pose major hurdles By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Drug Use What Is Xylazine? A Medical Toxicologist Explains How It Increases Overdose Risk and Why Narcan Can Still Save a Life The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned about the dangers of xylazine, but Narcan (naloxone) can still save people’s life during an overdose By Kavita Babu,The Conversation US

Planetary Science NASA's Uranus Mission Is Running Out of Time Multiple obstacles might make it hard for NASA to turn its dream of ice giant exploration into a reality any time soon By Shannon Hall

Drug Use Marie Nyswander Changed the Landscape of Addiction. Here's How Her Story Begins. In the first episode of season five of the Lost Women of Science podcast, we meet a young doctor who, in 1946, was posted to Kentucky’s "Narcotic Farm." By Katie Hafner,Carol Sutton Lewis,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Electronics Could Grinding Up Lithium Batteries Help Recycle Them? Researchers recovered lithium from batteries on a small scale by using mechanical force By Katharine Sanderson,Nature magazine

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Why Anti-Trans Laws Are Anti-Science Bills that restrict access to gender-affirming health care ignore research By The Editors | June 2021

WHAT WE'RE READING Why Camel Cloning is Big Business in Dubai   By Nadia Leigh-Hewitson | CNN | Mar. 1, 2023

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