Success! Perseverance Mars Rover Finally Collects Its First Rock Core

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September 08, 2021

Planetary Science Success! Perseverance Mars Rover Finally Collects Its First Rock Core The mission is living up to its name, drilling and storing a Martian rock after a misstep in August By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Engineering What Structural Engineers Learned from 9/11 Members of the profession study such tragic events to try and ensure that something similar won't happen again By Donald Dusenberry

Renewable Energy Contest Challenges Inventors to Harness Wave Power to Desalinate Seawater The Department of Energy wants devices that could be deployed to disaster areas that have lost electricity By John Fialka,E&E News

Biotech Listen to This: 'Hope Lies in Dreams,' a New Podcast from Nature Biotechnology This is a story of desperation, anger, poverty—and triumph over long odds to crack the code of a degenerative disease that had been stealing the lives of children since it was first discovered more than a century ago. By Brady Huggett | 03:26

Plants In Missouri, a Human 'Bee' Works to Better Understand Climate Change's Effects Researcher Matthew Austin has become a wildflower pollinator, sans the wings. By Shahla Farzan | 03:06

Medicine Misophonia Might Not Be about Hating Sounds After All The phenomenon triggers strong negative reactions to everyday sounds but might come from subconscious mirroring behavior By Christiane Gelitz,Maddie Bender

Aerospace Starlink, Internet from Space and the Precarious Future of Broadband in Rural America President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan includes an unprecedented $65 billion for broadband deployment, but money alone will not fix the U.S.'s Internet problem. This short documentary shows why By Jacob Templin

Medicine The New Science of Autoimmune Disease Millions of people are sickened by immune systems that are supposed to defend them. There are new ideas about why this happens and how to stop it.

Health Care How I Was Betrayed from Within One patient recounts her journey through a world of disabling symptoms, ineffective treatments and dismissive doctors By Maria Konnikova

Health Care The Terrible Toll of 76 Autoimmune Diseases This list shows how common each disorder is, which body parts are stricken, and the illnesses' tendency to afflict women By Maddie Bender,Jen Christiansen,Miriam Quick

Natural Disasters Hurricane Ida May Spark Mass Migration Like Katrina before it, the storm may make living conditions untenable in hard-hit areas By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Behavior A New Way to Understand--and Possibly Treat--OCD People with the disorder seem to have a more flexible "sense of self" By Baland Jalal

Ecology Wolf Populations Drop as More States Allow Hunting Repercussions of planned and anticipated wolf hunts and traps could ripple through ecosystems for years to come, scientists say By Tess Joosse

Mental Health Adolescent Mental Health? There's a 'Vaccine' for That School-based interventions that help students regulate their emotions in healthy ways have proved effective at preventing pandemic-related issues By Tamar Mendelson and Laura Clary

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

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Rocks, Rockets and Robots: The Plan to Bring Mars Down to Earth Coordinated by NASA and ESA, an ambitious effort to retrieve samples from the Red Planet faces major obstacles By Robin George Andrews | February 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "This is a momentous achievement." Bill Nelson, NASA administrator

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