Heat Waves Fueled by Climate Change Topple Records around the Globe

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May 08, 2023

Climate Change Heat Waves Fueled by Climate Change Topple Records around the Globe High temperature records have been set from Portugal to Thailand as heat waves fueled by climate change have arrived early this spring By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Epidemiology Map of Bushmeat Consumption Reveals Pandemic Risks Unregulated wild animal markets increase the risk of more epidemics By Jordan Kinard

Mathematics What Is Benford's Law? Why This Unexpected Pattern of Numbers Is Everywhere A curious mathematical phenomenon called Benford’s law governs the numbers all around us By Jack Murtagh

Ethics Amid War in Ukraine, Open-Source Intelligence Investigators Need Better Ethics Much of the open-source intelligence (OSINT) community ignores ethical questions and the safety risks of reporting discoveries from the war in Ukraine By Miron Lakomy

Public Health World COVID Emergency Status Is Over, but Dangerous Threat Remains The World Health Organization has declared that COVID is no longer a “public health emergency of international concern” but cautions that it is still an ongoing health issue By Mariana Lenharo,Nature magazine

Conservation These Mini-Ecosystems Existed Underfoot of Dinosaurs, but Our Parking Lots Might Pave Them to Extinction Vernal Pools are safe havens for creatures like the fairy shrimp, who have lived through the end of the dinosaurs, the breakup of Pangea, and multiple ice ages, but humans are paving them over. By Christopher Intagliata | 08:35

Drug Use Heavy Cannabis Use Linked to Schizophrenia, Especially among Young Men A huge Danish study shows that up to 30 percent of psychosis diagnoses in young men could have been prevented if these individuals hadn’t used marijuana heavily By Gary Stix

Animals This Frog May Be the First Amphibian Known to Pollinate Flowers A tiny, orange Brazilian tree frog may be the first known amphibian pollinator, further broadening our understanding of which animals perform this crucial biological function By Asher Elbein

Arts Poem: 'Confluence' Science in meter and verse By Marianne Karplus

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