Can the U.S. and China Cooperate in Space?

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August 03, 2021

Space Exploration Can the U.S. and China Cooperate in Space? China's meteoric rise in space science and exploration—along with its new partnership with Russia—is spurring U.S. experts to reconsider a long-standing prohibition on bilateral collaborations By Leonard David

Extraterrestrial Life Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms The mycologist Paul Stamets discusses the potential extraterrestrial uses of fungi, including terraforming planets, building human habitats—and providing psilocybin therapy to astronauts By Nick Hilden

Policy Canada's Residential Schools Were a Horror Founded to carry out the genocide of Indigenous people, they created conditions that killed thousands of children By Ian Mosby,Erin Millions

Climate Change The Best Way to Tax Carbon at the Border Legislators need to ensure that domestic and foreign producers face the same costs and incentives By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Planetary Science Buried 'Lakes' on Mars May Just Be Frozen Clay Mineral deposits, not salty water, are the most likely cause of radar reflections spotted beneath the planet's south pole, a new study finds By Charles Q. Choi,SPACE.com

Policy Deaf Children in Developing Countries Are Getting Inferior Cochlear Implants The technology they receive is often obsolete or has never been used in wealthier nations By Michele Friedner

Public Health How a Remote Indigenous Community Fought the Pandemic Thanks to a response based on local culture and values, India's Nicobar islanders haven't had a single infection during the nation's horrific second wave By Ajay Saini

Natural Disasters See Ominous Supercell Stormclouds as They Barrel across the U.S. These storms can unleash hail, lighting and—most notoriously—tornadoes By Leslie Nemo

Energy The 'Hydrogen Olympics' Lit a Torch for the Clean Fuel's Future An energy expert explains why Japan—along with much of the rest of the world—is committing to the clean-burning fuel By Tess Joosse

Diversity Conversations With Black Leaders in STEM Black innovators and leaders discuss career paths, mentorship and diversity in science. This speaker series is hosted by the Black Employee Network at Springer Nature, the publisher of Scientific American.

Public Health COVID, Quickly, Episode 12: Masking Up Again and Why People Refuse Shots Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here. By Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Maddie Bender | 06:18

Epidemiology Why Do Variants Such as Delta Become Dominant? Mutations that make a virus more transmissible are only part of the equation By Sara Reardon

Extraterrestrial Life To Understand UAP, We Need Megapixel Imagery If any of them represent advanced technology, high-resolution photographs might tell us whether they're metaphorically labeled "Made in China" or "Made on Exoplanet X" By Avi Loeb

Policy 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: August 2021 Tasty radio; early fake leather By Mark Fischetti

Policy In Case You Missed It Top news from around the world By Maddie Bender

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "The solar system is such a big place. If we're all duplicating everything individually, that is just stupid. So collaboration, cooperation, coordination--I think that's absolutely the way to go." Jim Head, planetary scientist at Brown University

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