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May 24, 2023

Education High School Students Need More Sleep and Later School Start Times After reading a Scientific American editorial on sleep and school start times, students and their teacher wrote to the editors about their experiences. Their district listened, and school will start later next year By Thomas Franich,Christina Cardiel,Alia Carson,Marcos Martinez,Kian Mendoza,Sakari Morris,Christian Ramirez Acabal

Animals Why Has a Group of Orcas Suddenly Started Attacking Boats? Killer whales in a group near Spain and Portugal may be teaching one another to mess with small boats. They sank their third vessel earlier this month By Stephanie Pappas

Astronomy Astronomers Have Spotted a Once-in-a-Decade Supernova--and You Can, Too The death throes of a massive star in the galaxy M101, located just 21 million light-years away from Earth, are entrancing professional and amateur astronomers alike By Meghan Bartels

Public Health What the End of the COVID Emergency Means for You What you pay for tests, vaccines, and medicine will change By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Lauren J. Young | 09:49

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Climate Change U.S. Military Sees Growing Threat in Thawing Permafrost Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks visited Alaska this week to see how climate change is undermining infrastructure at Arctic military bases By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Quantum Physics The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find New research pokes holes in the idea that the cosmos expanded and then contracted before beginning again By James Riordon

Computing People, Not Google's Algorithm, Create Their Own Partisan 'Bubbles' Online Politically polarized Google users are not steered to partisan sites by the search engine’s algorithm but generally decide to go there on their own By Joanna Thompson

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 6

FROM THE ARCHIVE The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo By The Editors | May 2022

WHAT WE'RE READING Students Are Increasingly Refusing to Go to School. It's Becoming a Mental Health Crisis. Since the pandemic, more students are school-avoidant, leaving parents feeling hopeless and schools unequipped to find a solution. By Adrianna Rodriguez | USA Today | May 15, 2023

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