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March 31, 2023

Astronomy Don't Panic: The Valentine's Day 2046 asteroid will not hit Earth. Here's why. How I learned to stop worrying and love the next Earth-threatening asteroid. By Phil Plait

Plants Stressed Plants 'Cry'--and Some Animals Can Probably Hear Them Microphones capture ultrasonic crackles from plants that are water-deprived or injured By Emma Marris,Nature magazine

Astronomy Cosmos, Quickly: Remembering the Genius of Vera Rubin Vera Rubin went from a teenager with a cardboard telescope to the "mother of dark matter." Some of her colleagues and mentees weigh in on her fascinating life, and how she was a champion for women in astronomy. By Tulika Bose,Clara Moskowitz,Jeffery DelViscio | 10:42

Artificial Intelligence AI Chatbots Can Diagnose Medical Conditions at Home. How Good Are They? As more people turn to chat-based AIs for medical advice, it remains to be seen how these tools stack up against—or could complement—human doctors By Sara Reardon

Artificial Intelligence How to Tell If a Photo Is an AI-Generated Fake Artificial-intelligence-powered image-generating systems are making fake photographs so hard to detect that we need AI to catch them By Meghan Bartels

Neurology New Research Points to Causes for Brain Disorders with No Obvious Injury Functional neurological disorders are very real, and medical compassion is an important part of treatment By Z Paige L’Erario

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 4

FROM THE ARCHIVE The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest Fossilized pollen and leaves reveal that the meteorite that caused the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs also reshaped South America’s plant communities to yield the planet’s largest rain forest By Rachel Nuwer | April 2021

WHAT WE'RE READING What it Sounds Like When Doves Cry A century ago, an ornithologist proposed a system for transcribing bird sound as human speech. It did not catch on. By Greg Uyeno | JSTOR Daily | Mar. 29, 2023

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