How the War in Gaza Has Devastated Hospitals

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December 01, 2023

Health Care How the War in Gaza Has Devastated Hospitals The Israel-Hamas war has disrupted hospitals' access to electricity, fuel and medicine. A physician from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières explains why health care is so vulnerable during war By Tanya Lewis

Climate Change Climate Adaptation Can Backfire If We Aren't Careful The choices we make in how we adapt to climate change can sometimes come back to bite us By Andrea Thompson | 11:54

Defense The Members of This Reservation Learned They Live with Nuclear Weapons. Can Their Reality Ever Be the Same? The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara peoples are learning more about the missiles siloed on their lands, and that knowledge has put the preservation of their culture and heritage in even starker relief. By Ella Weber | 14:55

Climate Change COP 28 Is a Crunch Point for Countries on the Front Lines of Climate Change To achieve climate justice, developed countries need to put their money where their mouth is By Josephine Latu-Sanft

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Renewable Energy Commercial Airliner Is First to Cross Atlantic with Biofuel Power Virgin Atlantic flew the first large commercial jet to traverse the Atlantic with 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel By Brian Dabbs,E&E News

Vaccines Why Childhood Vaccination Rates Are Falling Fewer kids got their routine childhood vaccines since before the pandemic. Are lack of access and a loss of trust in science to blame? By Josh Fischman,Carin Leong,Alexa Lim | 08:42

Astrophysics The Second Most Powerful Cosmic Ray in History Came from--Nowhere? Amaterasu—the most powerful cosmic ray seen in three decades—seems to come from an empty point of the sky. New telescopes may solve the mystery of its origins By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Oceans We Traced the Forever Chemicals Getting Into Ocean Ecosystems PFAS can enter the food chain through marine plants and animals and hurt human health By Natalia Soares Quinete,Olutobi Daniel Ogunbiyi,The Conversation US

Mathematics An Ancient Art Form Topples Assumptions about Mathematics The sand drawings of Vanuatu follow principles from a branch of mathematics known as graph theory By Alban Da Silva

Epidemiology What's Causing the Mysterious Wave of Childhood Pneumonia in China? A surge in respiratory disease in China appears to be caused by known pathogens, but the pattern of infections is still unusual By Gemma Conroy,Nature magazine

Archaeology Experts Doubt Claims that World's Oldest Pyramid Was Discovered in Indonesia Massive buried structures at Gunung Padang in Indonesia have been described as much older than Egypt's great pyramids in a new study, but some doubt they're even human constructions By Dyani Lewis,Nature magazine

Pollution Plankton Are Making Ocean Plastic Pollution Even More of a Mess Microbes tear up plastic into teeny tiny pieces that are even more dangerous to ecosystems By Meghan Bartels

BRING SCIENCE HOME Paper Squawker Squawk! Learn how you can change sound waves with just a piece of paper and a pair of scissors. Physics never sounded so fun(ny)! Credit: George Retseck Did you know that not all animals use their ears to hear sounds? Snakes, for example, perceive sound waves through their jawbones! And many insects perceive sound waves through their antennae. Although these methods of detecting sound might be different, they all respond to the same thing that our ears do, which is sound waves in the environment. In this activity, you will generate some impressive sound waves from very simple materials and observe how these sound waves are generated. Get ready to make some noise!

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