One judge just harmed women’s health

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April 10, 2023

Health Care A Bad Medication Abortion Decision Threatens the Future Availability of Drugs in the U.S. With an April 7 court decision, one judge has harmed women’s health and undermined trust in science-based drug approvals in the U.S. By Liz Borkowski,Julia Strasser

Mathematics A Number System Invented by Inuit Schoolchildren Will Make Its Silicon Valley Debut Math is called the “universal language,” but a unique dialect is being reborn By Amory Tillinghast-Raby

Astronomy Most Planets in the Galaxy Orbit Stars You Can't Even See Red dwarfs are dim bulbs but host more Earth-like planets than any other kind of star By Phil Plait

Microbiology Meet the Magnificent Microbes of the Deep Unknown These two researchers journey toward the center of Earth—via windows to the crust—to find bacteria that can breathe iron, arsenic and other metals that would kill us pretty quickly. By Jeffery DelViscio | 12:16

Cancer What the FDA Ruling about 'Dense Breasts' Means for Cancer Risk and Screening Women with dense breasts are at higher risk of breast cancer and are underdiagnosed, but other factors also play an important role By Leah Small

Mathematics Newfound Mathematical 'Einstein' Shape Creates a Never-Repeating Pattern A new shape called an einstein has taken the math world by storm. The craggy, hat-shaped tile can cover an infinite plane with patterns that never repeat. By Manon Bischoff

Climate Change Baseball Players Are Hitting More Home Runs--And Climate Change Is Helping As atmospheric temperatures rise with climate change, baseballs can travel farther through the air, allowing for more home runs By Christopher W. Callahan,Justin S. Mankin,The Conversation US

Astrophysics Astronomers Spy a Giant Runaway Black Hole's Starry Wake A candidate “rogue” supermassive black hole may weigh as much as 20 million suns and has sparked a trail of star formation that is 200,000 light-years long By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 4

FROM THE ARCHIVE How Medication Abortion with RU-486/Mifepristone Works A step-by-step look at how these drugs end pregnancy By Megha Satyanarayana,Mesa Schumacher | May 2022

WHAT WE'RE READING Are Abortion Pills Safe? Here's the Evidence. More than 100 studies conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy. By Amy Schoenfeld Walker, Jonathan Corum, Malika Khurana and Ashley Wu | The New York Times | April 7, 2023

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