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November 3, 2023

Psychology To Lead a Meaningful Life, Become Your Own Hero From Gilgamesh to Star Wars, the narrative blueprint underpinning many heroic tales can offer a powerful way to reframe experiences By Ben Rogers, Kurt Gray, Mike Christian

Conservation The World's Most Frightening Animal Sounds like This Lions, tigers, bears: this creature sends all of those beasts running for the hills. By Karen Hopkin | 08:42

Astronomy A Possible Crisis in the Cosmos Could Lead to a New Understanding of the Universe Several unexplained measurements are threatening to upend scientists' understanding of the universe's origin and fate By Michael D. Lemonick

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Behavior See How Humans around the World Spend the 24 Hours in a Day A new study calculated the average "global human day," revealing which activities take up most of our time By Clara Moskowitz, Studio Terp

Evolution The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn't supported by the available evidence By Cara Ocobock, Sarah Lacy

Public Health Heart Attacks and Strokes Will Rise with Extreme Heat The number of fatal heart attacks, strokes and arrhythmias could triple for older and Black adults as extreme heat increases with global warming By Ariel Wittenberg, E&E News

Animals Orcas Are Learning Terrifying New Behaviors From sinking boats and feasting on shark livers to dining on whale tongue and tossing porpoises around for fun, orcas are displaying some fascinating—and sometimes terrifying—behaviors By Sascha Pare, LiveScience

Psychology Children Face Unequal Treatment in the Classroom--With Devastating Consequences Students often receive feedback that conveys expectations linked to their socioeconomic background  By Eddie Brummelman

Physiology Ways to Extend Your Healthy Years, Not Just Your Life The biology of aging shows ways to lengthen your healthspan, years free of serious disease By Lydia Denworth

Planetary Science NASA's Lucy Asteroid Mission Zips Past a 'Dinky' Space Rock NASA's Lucy mission is starting its science studies way ahead of schedule By Meghan Bartels

Language Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows An Aboriginal language provides unexpected insight into how language influences perception By Christine Kenneally

Psychology The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies and Haunted Houses Scary play lets people—and other animals—rehearse coping skills for disturbing challenges in the real world By Athena Aktipis, Coltan Scrivner

BRING SCIENCE HOME Shattering Sugar: Make Movie-Ready Sugar Glass Learn about chemistry while you make sweet "glass" that is good enough to eat--or to shatter!  Credit: George Retseck You're watching an action movie, and suddenly the hero dives through a glass window! Or a car window shatters as the hero navigates an exciting car chase! The glass looks so real, but believe it or not, movie sets rarely use real glass for those scenes. Can you guess what they use instead? If you guessed candy, you're right! Instead of using real glass, which is expensive, difficult to replace for multiple shots and dangerous, movie sets use sugar glass! This cheap, easy-to-make substitute looks like glass—and tastes like candy! In this activity you'll make your own beautiful version—a stained sugar glass window that looks good enough to eat!

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