Jeff Bezos Launches into Space on Blue Origin's First Astronaut Flight

Trouble viewing? View in your browser. View all Scientific American publications.

    

July 20, 2021

Space Jeff Bezos Launches into Space on Blue Origin's First Astronaut Flight The billionaire and three others take a suborbital trip onboard the craft New Shepard By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Public Health People with COVID Often Infect Their Pets New unpublished studies show that dogs and cats with COVID-positive owners frequently have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies By Frank Schubert

Biology Behold the 'Borg': Massive DNA Structures Perplex Scientists Researchers say they have discovered unique and exciting DNA strands in the mud; others are not sure of their novelty By Amber Dance,Nature magazine

Environment Cities Pledge More Green Space to Combat Urban Heat Four U.S. municipalities—Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Seattle—were among those that signed on By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Public Health Flu Has Disappeared for More Than a Year Mask wearing, social distancing and other steps to stop COVID-19 have also curtailed influenza By Katie Peek

Biology Play Is Serious Business for Elephants Young dogs, apes and other animals develop skills needed to survive and reproduce By Caitlin O'Connell

Natural Disasters Today's Wildfires Are Taking Us into Uncharted Territory Data on 2,000 years of Rocky Mountain forest fires shows skyrocketing damage By Rebecca Dzombak

Climate Space Has Better Internet than Antarctica, But that Might Change A proposed fiber optic cable could make it easier for scientists to transmit crucial climate data By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Behavior & Society How to Raise Kids Who Don't Grow Up to Be Jerks (or Worse) A new book gives science-based advice for parenting kids to be generous, kind antiracists By Clara Moskowitz

Engineering Concrete Buildings Could Be Turned into Rechargeable Batteries But for now, a square meter of the building material holds roughly the energy of two AA batteries By Sophie Bushwick

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 325, Issue 2

ADVERTISEMENT

FROM THE ARCHIVE The Adolescent Spacefaring Dreams of Tech Billionaires Their obsession harks back to sci-fi, but they could be doing more good on Earth By Zeynep Tufekci | December 2019

QUOTE OF THE DAY "People say they go into space and they come back changed. Astronauts always talk about that, whether it's the thin limb of the Earth's atmosphere and seeing how fragile the planet is, that it's just one planet." Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin

LATEST ISSUES

Questions?   Comments?

Download the Scientific American App

To view this email as a web page, go here. You received this email because you opted-in to receive email from Scientific American. To ensure delivery please add news@email.scientificamerican.com to your address book. Unsubscribe     Manage Email Preferences     Privacy Policy     Contact Us