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Welcome to Sunday. The top 5 most-read stories of the week are displayed below. Below that are five editors’ selections that we want to make sure you don’t miss.
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I can remember watching the Moon landing with my brother Patrick. More than 50 years later, he and I both delighted in the first images released by the James Webb Space Telescope. We weren’t alone – an article we published by Silas Laycock at UMass Lowell led our reader engagement this week. Laycock’s piece will help you understand why astronomers like him are buzzing with excitement as they view these first richly detailed colorful images from the deep-space telescope.
One of our editors’ picks this week comes from Abby Kiesa, the deputy director at CIRCLE at Tufts University, an important center for the study of young voters. Kiesa explores how the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade could affect this November’s midterm elections – and the role anger may play in bringing people to the polls.
Next week, we’ll bring you stories about sunscreen and skin cancer in darker-skinned people, polar bears hunting in human dumps and how to reach out to friends after losing touch.
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This cluster of galaxies, called Stephan’s Quintet, is a composite image produced from two cameras aboard the James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA/STScI
Silas Laycock, UMass Lowell
NASA released five new images from the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing incredible details of ancient galaxies, stars and the presence of water in the atmosphere of a distant planet.
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Marylynn Salmon, Smith College
The idea that Europeans brought new diseases to the Americas and returned home with others has been widely accepted. But evidence is mounting that for syphilis this scenario is wrong.
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Victor Menaldo, University of Washington; James D. Long, University of Washington
Former President Donald Trump is facing mounting criminal evidence against him and his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Trump is also seeing GOP voters turning elsewhere.
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Danielle Wilhour, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Research suggests that alternative treatments for migraine, including physical therapy, massage and vitamin supplements, can make a difference.
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Svetla Ben-Itzhak, Air University; R. Lincoln Hines, Air University
A comment by Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator, sparked a strong public response from the Chinese government. But due to legal and practical reasons, no country could take over the Moon anytime soon.
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Abortion-rights activists gather in front of the Supreme Court in May 2022 ahead of the Dobbs decision.
Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
Abby Kiesa, Tufts University
As many as 80% of young people want abortion to be legal, and most disagree with the Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs v. Jackson ruling. This could lead to high youth voting rates in the 2022 midterms.
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Martha Davis, Northeastern University
Only 24 countries today totally ban abortion. The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in the US is unlikely to lead other countries to join that list.
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Gary Samore, Brandeis University
Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons centers on producing weapons-grade uranium. Here’s what reports about Iran enriching uranium indicate about its progress toward the bomb.
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Juris Pupcenoks, Marist College
What do Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Moldova and Kazakhstan have in common with Ukraine? Russian allegations that they are all overrun by Nazis.
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Janet Bednarek, University of Dayton
From 1968 to 1974, US airlines experienced 130 hijackings. But it was Cooper’s hijacking-as-extortion plot that captured the public’s imagination – and inspired a copycat crime wave.
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