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June 02, 2023

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Education India Cuts Periodic Table and Evolution from School Textbooks The periodic table, as well as evolution, won’t be taught to under-16s in India as they start the new school year By Dyani Lewis,Nature magazine

Paleontology This Gargantuan Bird Weighed as Much as a Sports Car The elephant bird was the heaviest bird to ever walk the earth. Also, its eggs were 150 times the size of chicken eggs, and thick as a dinner plate. By Flora Lichtman | 08:52

Cancer When Should You Get a Mammogram? Medical boards and task forces recommend mammogram screenings for breast cancer begin at age 40. But people in high-risk groups may want to consider getting tested even earlier By Lauren J. Young

Natural Disasters This Hurricane Season May See a Key FEMA Disaster Fund Run Out of Money A key FEMA disaster fund and state insurance programs could run out of money to finance disaster recovery and pay claims, respectively, as hurricane and wildfire seasons begin By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Space Exploration Crewed Starliner Launch Delayed by Flammable Tape, Botched Parachutes Boeing's first Starliner flight for NASA astronauts was scheduled for July 21, but is now delayed—perhaps indefinitely By Tariq Malik,SPACE.com

Mathematics Pioneering Advanced Math from Behind Bars Math research gives meaning to years spent in prison  By Amory Tillinghast-Raby

Planetary Science Newfound 'Quasi-Moon' Has Been Earth's Fellow Traveler for Thousands of Years Astronomers recently identified asteroid 2023 FW13 as a quasi-moon, a space rock orbiting the sun nearly in tandem with Earth By Kiley Price,LiveScience

Artificial Intelligence Car-Free Cities Are the Future, Biometrics Reveal Advanced tools for tracking people’s eye movements and facial expressions can be used to design better places By Justin B. Hollander,Johanna Riddle,Eliandro Tavares,Jenna Van Holten,Jenna Whitney

Astronomy Why Venus Is So Bright Right Now Our planetary neighbor Venus becomes a brilliant beacon in the sky each time it reaches its greatest orbital distance from the sun By Phil Plait

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WHAT WE'RE READING Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already And stop confusing performance with competence, says Rodney Brooks By Glenn Zorpette | IEEE Spectrum | May 17, 2023

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