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October 20, 2023

Pharmaceuticals Popular Weight-Loss Drugs Come with Side Effects Recent studies evaluate risks associated with drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro By Mariana Lenharo,Nature magazine

Geology Scientists Discover Ghost of Ancient Mega-Plate That Disappeared 20 Million Years Ago A long-lost tectonic plate dubbed "Pontus" that was a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean was discovered by chance by scientists in Borneo By Stephanie Pappas,LiveScience

Vaccines Is the Novavax COVID Vaccine Better than mRNA Vaccines? What We Know So Far Novavax's protein-based vaccine is the latest FDA-authorized COVID booster available this fall. Here's what you should know By Sara Reardon

Neuroscience This Is The Largest Map of The Human Brain Ever Made Researchers catalogue more than 3,000 different types of cell in our most complex organ By Gemma Conroy,Nature magazine

Sponsor Content Provided by Columbia Global Reports Rivals: How Science Works – ON SALE NOW! In RIVALS, acclaimed historian of science Lorraine Daston offers a fascinating overview of the genesis of scientific collaboration—from the late 17th to the early 21st centuries—through the creation of two enormous projects: the Carte du Ciel, and the International Cloud Atlas.

Anthropology AI Reads Ancient Scroll Charred by Mount Vesuvius in Tech First For the first time, a machine learning technique has revealed Greek words in CT scans of fragile rolled-up papyrus By Jo Marchant,Nature magazine

Planetary Science 'Monster Quake' Hints at Mysterious Source within Mars Images from each and every spacecraft now orbiting Mars have ruled out a meteorite strike as the cause of a 4.7-magnitude marsquake, the strongest temblor ever detected beyond Earth By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Pharmaceuticals Should Insurance Cover Wegovy, Ozempic and Other New Weight-Loss Drugs? Insurance plans could cover blockbuster weight-loss medications such as Wegovy and Ozempic, but the benefits may not be accessible to everyone By Lucy Tu

Climate Change American Catholics Call for Climate Action after Pope Francis Encourages Change Pope Francis's new encyclical says irresponsible lifestyles are the biggest impediment to reducing carbon emissions By John Fialka,E&E News

Mathematics A Married Bachelor Proves That Unicorns Exist The "principle of explosion" explains why a single contradiction would destroy math By Jack Murtagh

Microbiology Dangerous 'Superbugs' Are on the Rise. What Can Stop Them? Traditional antibiotics drive bacteria toward drug resistance, so scientists are looking to viruses, CRISPR, designer molecules and protein swords for better superbug treatments By Nicoletta Lanese,LiveScience

Public Health Bed Bugs and Influencers Spark Pest Panic in Paris. Here's What You Need to Know Media reports suggest an unprecedented outbreak of bed bugs in Paris, but experts aren't so sure anything is out of the ordinary By Brooke Borel

Artificial Intelligence AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers By Ed Zitron

BRING SCIENCE HOME Interfering Patterns Can you trick your eyes with these groovy mathematical patterns? Grab a few household items and find out! Credit: George Retseck Have you ever wondered why our eyes are drawn to patterns? We see patterns in art and music, and also in our daily lives. Patterns can provide a sense of order and can make a hectic-looking world a little more manageable. They are the basis of many assumptions and predictions. We assume we will have lunch at noon if that is what we always do. We predict thunderclouds will bring rain. And you might expect to get in trouble when you disobey the rules. We are so used to looking for patterns that we might even see one where there is none. In this activity we look for one of those illusions: one that printers avoid but scientists have put to good use.

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