NASA's Perseverance Rover Finds Signs of Epic Ancient Floods on Mars

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October 07, 2021

Planetary Science NASA's Perseverance Rover Finds Signs of Epic Ancient Floods on Mars New results from the mission reveal that its landing site of Jezero Crater has a surprisingly dynamic and complex hydrologic history By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Quantum Physics Why the Physics Nobel Honored Climate Science and Complex Systems The prestigious award finally recognizes work that helped scientists understand climate change and, more broadly, find order in disorder By Daniel Garisto

Fossil Fuels Electric Vehicle Adoption Not Happening Fast Enough to Meet Climate Goals Just 30 percent of cars on the road will be electric by 2050 under current policies, the U.S. Energy Information Administration says By Arianna Skibell,E&E News

Computing The FDA Should Better Regulate Medical Algorithms Most do not require the agency's approval, and those that do often don't require clinical trials By Soleil Shah,Abdul El-Sayed

Mathematics Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement in Cities around the World A new model could help model disease transmission and urban planning By Viviane Callier

Materials Science This Is What a Solid Made of Electrons Looks Like Physicists have imaged elusive 'Wigner crystals' for the first time By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Natural Disasters Deaths from Hurricane Ida Expose Flaws in FEMA Flood Maps The New York City homes where 11 people drowned were in areas marked as low risk for inundation By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Politics Francis Collins, Head of NIH Who Led Human Genome Project, to Step Down After 12 years at the helm of the top biomedical research agency, the geneticist will return to running his lab by year's end By Nidhi Subbaraman,Nature magazine

Neurology An Inventory of All the Brain Cells That Let You Run, Jump and Roll A project to map the motor cortex used the widest range of tools for probing brain cells ever deployed in a single, coordinated effort By Simon Makin

Medicine Deadly Falls among the Elderly Are on the Rise They could be reduced with targeted exercise and some technological innovations By Claudia Wallis

Privacy A Blank Wall Can Show How Many People Are in a Room and What They're Doing The technique is the latest method to glean a surprising amount of surveillance from a meager source By Sophie Bushwick

Health Care An Elbow Injury Exposes the Exorbitant Costs of Health Care Bills totaling $287,365.08 provide insights into the dysfunctional economics of American medicine By John Horgan

Neurology A Cell Atlas Reveals the Biodiversity inside Our Head The NIH's Cell Census delivers on its promise by mapping the cells in the motor cortex By Christof Koch,Ed S. Lein,Hongkui Zeng

FROM THE STORE The Math of Everything Galileo said that mathematics is the language of nature. This eBook examines math across disciplines, exploring how math is the backbone connecting the physical, social and economic worlds. From practical questions about the significance of p values and using math to fight gerrymandering to the top theoretical problems in the field, this collection looks at what math reveals about our universe.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Water on Mars: Discovery of Three Buried Lakes Intrigues Scientists Researchers say they have detected a group of lakes hidden under the Red Planet's icy surface By Jonathan O'Callaghan,Nature magazine | September 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We're just starting to understand the complexities of Martian history." Kirsten Siebach, Martian geologist at Rice University

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