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July 14, 2023

Weather Supercomputer Will Help Decide whether to Block the Sun A new supercomputer is helping climate scientists determine whether injecting human-made, sun-blocking aerosols into the stratosphere would also alter thunderstorms and rainfall By Minho Kim,E&E News

Medicine New Tinnitus Therapy Can Quiet Torturous Ringing in the Ears A combination of acoustic and electrical stimulation reduces tinnitus by half By Anton Benz

Climate Change Underground Climate Change Is Weakening Buildings in Slow Motion Hotspots beneath cities deform the ground, causing important infrastructure to crack under stress By Allison Parshall

Psychology Do We Actually 'Hear' Silence? An experiment tests whether our ears hear silent intervals in the same way they hear music or noise By Shayla Love

Climate Change What's Causing This Record-Breaking Heat? Yet another heat dome will send temperatures skyrocketing across the U.S. Southwest just after the planet saw its hottest week on record By Andrea Thompson

Mental Illness How My Mother's Dementia Showed Me Another Side of Neurodiversity My mother taught me to love words. Her dementia taught me to listen more closely By Steve Silberman

Health Care Doctor AI Will See You Now ChatGPT and other AI programs can offer medical advice. But how good are they? By Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Carin Leong | 08:08

Education The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decision Is the Latest Effort to Erase Racism from Cultural Consciousness Along with the Stop WOKE Act and bills banning diversity efforts, the Supreme Court's "affirmative action" decision is part of a larger effort to pretend racism doesn't exist By Dominique J. Baker

Pharmaceuticals Could New Weight-Loss Drugs like Ozempic Treat Addiction? Ozempic and similar medications may target brain circuitry involved in addiction as well as appetite control By Sara Reardon

Neuroscience How the Brain Creates Your Physical Sense of Self New insight comes from zapping a region, known as the anterior precuneus, that causes people to feel dissociated from their body By Diana Kwon

Artificial Intelligence AI Is an Existential Threat--Just Not the Way You Think Some fear that artificial intelligence will threaten humanity's survival. But the existential risk is more philosophical than apocalyptic By Nir Eisikovits,The Conversation US

Defense Russia Is Trying to Leave the Internet and Build Its Own Russia and other nations are working on "sovereign Internet" systems that threaten digital rights—and the stability of the global Internet  By Timmy Broderick

BRING SCIENCE HOME Time to Clean...Your Water! What goes on behind the tap? Learn how water filters work--and create your own! Credit: George Retseck It's easy to take our clean water for granted, we're so used to being able to drink from a fountain or faucet whenever we're thirsty. But did you know more than a billion people in the world don't have access to clean water? Part of the problem is that cleaning (or purifying) water is not an easy task. Not only do you need to remove dirt and other debris but you also have to get rid of all the invisible bacteria and microorganisms that can make people sick. In this activity we'll explore a few methods for cleaning water, and learn about the steps involved in making sure you have safe water to drink when you're thirsty.

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