This article fom The National Academies is about nuclear security. It is an example of how issues of crucial scientific issues can be behind news headlines.
The National Academies website can be useful for helping to develop story ideas for cinema and fiction which explore scientific issues that people also have some familiarity with through news reports.
Periodical cicadas in the eastern United States emerge from the ground
every 13 or 17 years — both prime numbers, not by coincidence — because
their long, indivisible cycles make it nearly impossible for any predator
with a shorter life cycle to evolve to feed on them, in one of the most
mathematically elegant defenses in the natural world
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In the spring of 2024, two enormous populations of periodical cicadas
emerged simultaneously from the soil across the eastern and midwestern
United State...
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