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JWST Captures Stunning Image of Rings around Uranus

Robert Lea and SPACE.com

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Fascism's History Offers Lessons about Today's Attacks on Education

Eden McLean | Opinion

Evolution

How Zombifying Fungi Became Master Manipulators

Allison Parshall

Deepest Fish Discovered More Than 5 Miles below the Sea Surface

A small, bizarre-looking fish was found more than five miles beneath the sea and is considered the deepest fish ever recorded

Tom Metcalfe

Planetary Science

Planetary Science

JWST Captures Stunning Image of Rings around Uranus

Robert Lea and SPACE.com

Education

Fascism's History Offers Lessons about Today's Attacks on Education

Eden McLean | Opinion

Evolution

How Zombifying Fungi Became Master Manipulators

Allison Parshall

Policy

Science News Briefs from around the World: April 2023

Allison Parshall

Fossil Fuels

Gulf Oil Platforms Emit Even More Methane than Reported

Lamar Johnson and E&E News

Climate Change

Glaciers May Melt Even Faster Than Expected, Study Finds

Chelsea Harvey and E&E News

Drug Use

From Orgasms to Overdoses: How Marie Nyswander Went from Treating ‘Sexual Frigidity’ to Heroin Addiction

Katie Hafner, Carol Sutton Lewis and The Lost Women of Science Initiative

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Bird Flu Is Surging. Dialing Back Its Pandemic Risk Starts with Prevention

Daniel Schar, Erik Karlsson and Filip Claes | Opinion

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Particle Physics

Bizarre Quantum Tunneling Observation Throws Out All the Rules

The strange phenomenon of quantum tunneling has been observed in a chemical reaction that defies classical physics

Science Has New Ideas about ‘Oumuamua’s Weirdness

Our first known interstellar visitor is now long gone, but new research has some ideas about why it moved the way it did while it was in our cosmic neighborhood.

Lee Billings, Meghan Bartels and Jeffery DelViscio

Drone-on-Drone Combat in Ukraine Marks a New Era of Aerial Warfare

Antidrone technology is combatting “flying IEDs” in the air over Ukraine—with implications beyond the war with Russia

Deepest Fish Discovered More Than 5 Miles below the Sea Surface

A small, bizarre-looking fish was found more than five miles beneath the sea and is considered the deepest fish ever recorded

Artificial Intelligence

I Gave ChatGPT an IQ Test. Here’s What I Discovered

The chatbot was the ideal test taker—it exhibited no trace of test anxiety, poor concentration or lack of effort. And what about that IQ score?

Eka Roivainen | Opinion

Personality Can Change from One Hour to the Next

Studies show that people may experience enormous variability in personality traits throughout the course of the day

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Spotlight on Women in Science

Spotlight on Women in Science

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Honoring women at the forefront of science

March 6, 2023

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The First Lady of Engineering

The First Lady of Engineering

The third season of Lost Women of Science follows the story of Yvonne Y. Clark and her groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer.

By Katie Hafner, Carol Sutton Lewis and The Lost Women of Science Initiative

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Vera Rubin Lives On in Lives of the Women She Helped in Astronomy

The “mother of dark matter” was a force of nature—and a forceful advocate for other women who wanted to dedicate their career to the cosmos.

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Microbiology

Mysterious Microbes in Earth's Crust Might Help with the Climate Crisis

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Evolution

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This Particle Accelerator Makes a Substance That Has Not Existed in 13 Billion Years

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