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April 13, 2023

Astronomy JWST's Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen We now know that the first galaxies in our universe formed shockingly fast, thanks to the latest results from the James Webb Space Telescope By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Animals How Bears Hibernate without Getting Blood Clots Hibernating brown bears avoid the blood clots that can develop in even temporarily immobile people. Scientists now think they know how the animals do it By Jack Tamisiea

Black Holes See the Sharp New Image of an Iconic Black Hole Using machine learning, researchers have now created a much sharper portrait of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 By Meghan Bartels

Fossil Fuels Electric Car Production Will Accelerate after EPA's Historic Tailpipe Emissions Rules Aggressive restrictions will affect carbon, smog and soot emissions from compact cars all the way up to long-haul trucks By Jean Chemnick,E&E News

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Vaccines How Often Should People Get COVID Boosters? The CDC and FDA have decided that one updated COVID booster is enough for now, in contrast to recommendations from other countries and global health organizations By Lauren J. Young

Drug Use These Doctors Fought the Federal Bureau of Narcotics to Treat Addiction--With Drugs In the early 1960s a trio at the Rockefeller Institute started a bold experiment to change the way heroin addiction was treated, and they did so using a drug originally created by “the devil’s chemist” By Katie Hafner,Carol Sutton Lewis,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Astronomy New Planet-Hunting Technique Finds Worlds We Can See Directly A promising combination of exoplanet-finding methods pinpoints details about its first world By Nola Taylor Tillman

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 4

FROM THE ARCHIVE The James Webb Space Telescope Has Launched: Now Comes the Hard Part After years of delay, the most ambitious observatory ever built has at last left Earth. It now faces a high-stakes series of deployments in deep space By Richard Panek | December 2021

WHAT WE'RE READING Nutrition Science's Most Preposterous Result Studies show a mysterious health benefit to ice cream. Scientists don’t want to talk about it. By David Merritt Johns | The Atlantic | April 13, 2023

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