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November 17, 2023

Microbiology Scientists Discover First-Ever Vampire Virus Latched to Neck of 'MindFlayer' By Ivan Erill,The Conversation

Geology Will It or Won't It? Iceland's Volcano Threatens Eruption An enormous magma intrusion under Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula is causing earthquake swarms and forcing evacuations By Stephanie Pappas

Mathematics Simple Formula Makes Prime Numbers Easy, but a Million-Dollar Mystery Remains A generator equation can spit out many prime numbers, but it leaves important mathematical questions unanswered By Manon Bischoff

Conservation Invasive 'Cocaine Hippos' Are Being Sterilized in Colombia To deal with invasive hippos that were brought to Colombia by drug lord Pablo Escobar—and that threaten the country's biodiversity—the nation's government is sterilizing, exporting and euthanizing the animals  By Luke Taylor,Nature magazine

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Public Health Why the Life Expectancy Gap between Men and Women Is Growing Women are outliving men by nearly six years—and COVID and drug overdoses are a major cause, according to a new report By Lori Youmshajekian

Weather First-Ever Flood Forecasting Maps Show Houses and Roads at Risk The National Weather Service has launched the first flood forecasting system with precise, real-time data showing spots that are at imminent risk of inundation By Minho Kim,E&E News

Geology Egypt's Iconic Sphinx May Have Begun as Natural Carving by the Wind Egypt's famous Sphinx may have originated as a rock feature carved by erosion that ancient Egyptians further refined into the iconic monument By Owen Jarus,LiveScience

Sleep Is Snoozing the Alarm Good or Bad for Your Health? New research suggests that hitting the snooze button to squeeze in an extra five or 10 minutes of sleep may actually be good for you By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Memory How Does Your Brain Remember and Retrieve Words? Here's a look at how the brain uses its mental dictionary to remember and retrieve language By Nichol Castro,The Conversation

Behavior It's Not All in Your Head--You Do Focus Differently on Zoom Virtual meetings and video calls don't quite stack up to in-person interaction—and a new study proves it By Lauren Leffer

Defense The New Nuclear Age The U.S. is beginning an ambitious, controversial reinvention of its nuclear arsenal. The project comes with incalculable costs and unfathomable risks

Defense How Did Nuclear Weapons Get on My Reservation? A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands. By Ella Weber | 18:37

Genetics Newborn Genomic Screening Needs to Build the Evidence With many large newborn genomic screening studies launching, we need to answer questions about cost, fairness and tangible benefits of a promising technology By Zornitza Stark,Richard Scott

BRING SCIENCE HOME Shaky Science: Build a Seismograph Learn how to measure movement with some simple physics by building your very own seismograph. And shake it up!  Credit: George Retseck Scientists study earthquakes so we can understand and predict them better. In this activity you will learn about one of the tools scientists use to measure the strength of an earthquake—and build your own machine using simple materials.

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