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Today you\u2019ll learn about how fruit flies are inspiring new forms of gameplay in basketball, how IQ levels are falling around the country, and a potential solution to difficult-to-recycle plastics!\xa0

Basketball Positions\xa0

• \u201cPhysics model could optimize basketball player positioning\u201d by Kathy Hovis
• https://phys.org/news/2023-03-physics-optimize-basketball-player-positioning.html
• \u201cFruit flies and electrons: Researchers use physics to predict crowd behavior\u201d by Linda B. Glaser
• https://phys.org/news/2018-08-fruit-flies-electrons-physics-crowd.html
• \u201cDensity-functional fluctuation theory of crowds\u201d by J. Felipe M\xe9ndez-Valderrama et al.
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05750-z#Abs1

Self-Healing Plastic\xa0

• \u201cResearchers build hard, self-healing plastic that can be reshaped and recycled\u201d by Wageningen University
• https://phys.org/news/2023-03-hard-self-healing-plastic-reshaped-recycled.html
• \u201cHard plastics can be recycled if they are constructed differently\u201d by Maarten Smulders
• https://www.wur.nl/en/news-wur/show-home/hard-plastics-can-be-recycled-if-they-are-constructed-differently.htm

IQ Decline

• \u201cHistoric decline in IQ could stem from poor education, study shows\u201d by Shelby Kearns
  • https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21483
• \u201cLooking for Flynn effects in a recent online U.S. adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project\u201d by Elizabeth M. Dworak et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289623000156#f0005
• \u201cOnline tests suggest IQ scores in US dropped for the first time in nearly a century\u201d by Bob Yirka
  • https://phys.org/news/2023-03-online-iq-scores-century.html
• \u201cIQ Scores In The US Have Recently Dropped For First Time This Century\u201d by Tom Hale
  • https://www.iflscience.com/iq-scores-in-the-us-have-recently-dropped-for-first-time-this-century-67907

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