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August 13, 2021

Mental Health Critical Care Doctors Are in Crisis Who's caring for the ICU physicians? By Carolyn Barber

Climate Change Earth Is Warmer Than It's Been in 125,000 Years A landmark assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change says greenhouse gases are unequivocally driving extreme weather, but nations can still prevent the worst impacts By Jeff Tollefson,Nature magazine

Space Exploration The Ethics of Sending Humans to Mars We need to avoid the mistakes European countries made during the age of colonization By Nicholas Dirks

Behavior What Is a Question? A 92-year-old essay provokes musings on the nature of knowledge, reality—and uptalk By John Horgan

Particle Physics Exotic Four-Quark Particle Spotted at Large Hadron Collider The rare tetraquark is one of dozens of nonelementary particles discovered at the accelerator and could help test theories about the strong nuclear force By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Climate Change New Climate Report Will Detail Grim Future of Hotter, Extreme Weather and Rising Seas The first assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in eight years will sound the alarm on soaring temperatures and other effects of unchecked carbon pollution By Jeff Tollefson,Nature magazine

Mathematics Modern Mathematics Confronts Its White, Patriarchal Past Mathematicians want to think their field is a meritocracy, but bias, harassment and exclusion persist By Rachel Crowell

Space Exploration NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Foiled in First Attempt to Grab Rock for Return to Earth Seeking to collect its inaugural core sample, the mission hopes to begin what could be humanity's boldest search for extraterrestrial life By Robin George Andrews

Renewable Energy Wave Power Charges Ahead with Static Electricity Generators An ocean-powered buoy brings technology closer to the dream of obtaining energy from the sea By Maddie Bender

Privacy What is Pegasus? How Surveillance Spyware Invades Phones A cybersecurity expert explains the NSO Group's stealthy software By Bhanukiran Gurijala,The Conversation US

Biology One Head, 1,000 Rear Ends: The Tale of a Deeply Weird Worm Ramisyllis multicaudata is an animal that seems to have adopted the lifestyle of a fungus By Jennifer Frazer

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Space & Physics, Volume 4, Issue 4

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BRING SCIENCE HOME Measure Surface Tension with a Penny Learn about the secrets of soap in this surprising surface tension-testing activity! Credit: George Retseck Have you ever noticed on a rainy day how water forms droplets on a window? Why does it do that instead of spreading out evenly over the whole surface? You might not guess it but this property of water is also related to washing dishes and doing the laundry. How? It all has to do with something called surface tension. Try this activity to learn more!

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