New Approach Could Boost the Search for Life in Otherworldly Oceans

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July 16, 2021

Space New Approach Could Boost the Search for Life in Otherworldly Oceans "Ecological biosignatures" hold promise for revealing alien organisms that may dwell within icy moons such as Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus By Natalie Elliot

Behavior & Society Dancing with Robots The emerging field of choreorobotics can make humans more comfortable interacting with machines By Catie Cuan

Biology Spiders on Tiny Treadmills Give Scientists the Side Eye Jumping spiders see more in their periphery than previously known By Maddie Bender

Environment Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Killed More than 1 Billion Sea Creatures The massive loss could destabilize local marine ecosystems By Valerie Yurk,E&E News

Neuroscience New Brain Implant Transmits Full Words from Neural Signals No spelling out of letters is needed for a paralyzed person to use the first-of-a-kind neuroprosthesis By Emily Willingham

Public Health Kids Get 'Long COVID' Too Children can suffer lingering symptoms from the disease, but researchers are still working to determine how frequently and how severely By Dyani Lewis,Nature magazine

Physics China Is Pulling Ahead in Global Quantum Race, New Studies Suggest The competition between the U.S. and China over development of quantum technology has implications for both the future of science and the two countries' political relations By Daniel Garisto

Biology 'Inflammation Clock' Can Reveal Body's Biological Age Using machine learning, researchers created a tool that might help doctors improve people's healthy lifespan By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Medicine There Are Few Good COVID Antivirals, but That Could Be Changing Developing pills that block the novel coronavirus has been challenging. A new Biden administration program aims to boost the effort By Charles Schmidt

Public Health Is Your Office Safe from COVID? What to Know Now That Your Boss Wants You Back Workers are anxious because the coronavirus is still infecting people. Here are ways to evaluate the safety of a shared work space By Christie Aschwanden

Space New Space Radiation Limits Needed for NASA Astronauts, Report Says Although meant to minimize risks to human health, the proposed new limits would still be exceeded by any conceivable near-future crewed voyage to Mars By Ramin Skibba

The Body The Problem with Pain Scores Physicians often ask you to rate your agony on a scale from one to 10—but the response doesn't necessarily say anything useful By Daniel Barron

Public Health We Must Protect Our Public Health Agencies from Political Interference Some states have passed laws that threaten to undermine these vital resources, and others may follow By Janice Phillips

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 325, Issue 1

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "Now we are entering an era where we can go after what we know about how life has evolved and apply that as a general principle." Jim Green, chief scientist at NASA

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