Physics Nobel Honors Breakthroughs in Understanding Climate and Other Complex Systems

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October 05, 2021

Planetary Science Physics Nobel Honors Breakthroughs in Understanding Climate and Other Complex Systems Half the award goes to Giorgio Parisi for his studies of disorder and chaos; the remainder is shared between Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for modeling of global warming and climate variability By Lee Billings,Nikk Ogasa

Space Exploration Russian Crew Arrives at Space Station for a Historic Film Shoot After a tense manual docking by a professional cosmonaut, the Soyuz spacecraft's other occupants—an actress and a director—are set to make a first-of-its-kind movie in orbit By Tereza Pultarova,SPACE.com

Weather NOAA Sailed a Drone into the Heart of Powerful Hurricane Sam Data collected by the vessel could improve future hurricane models and forecasts By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Behavior How Pandemic Life Mimicked Pioneer Times Sourdough, seeds, shovels and other basic survival needs made a comeback By Lydia Denworth

Reproduction Vaccination Protects Pregnant People and Their Babies from Severe COVID Studies show the vaccines against the disease not only can be safely given to people who are expecting but can also save lives By Mariana Lenharo

Astronomy NASA Won't Rename the James Webb Space Telescope--and Astronomers Are Angry The agency found no evidence that the flagship observatory's namesake was involved in anti-LGBT+ activities, but some say that Webb bears responsibility By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Mental Health Experimental Brain Implant Could Personalize Depression Therapy Symptoms subsided for one woman after a carefully targeted neural circuit was stimulated By Gary Stix

Conservation Biodiversity's Greatest Protectors Need Protection Indigenous peoples have been conserving ecosystems for millennia. Now the developed world wants to evict them By The Editors

Space Exploration Mercury Dazzles in New Close-up from BepiColombo Mission The European and Japanese spacecraft performed the first of six slingshot maneuvers around the planet. It will ultimately insert two probes into orbit in 2025 By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Nutrition What is Kombucha? A new video series from Scientific American and Spektrum der Wissenschaft gives you a serving of science. In this episode, we take a look at the effervescent fermented tea that has become a health craze. By Spektrum,The Scientific American Staff

Biochemistry High-Flying Sensor Detects Living Things from Far Above A new detector could keep tabs on life on Earth—and maybe beyond By Connie Chang

Climate Change Biosphere 2: The Once Infamous Live-In Terrarium Is Transforming Climate Research Despite its controversial past, the quirky desert facility is becoming increasingly relevant as it turns 30 By Keridwen Cornelius

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FROM THE ARCHIVE This Was the Decade We Knew We Were Right Everything is connected, and everything is changing By Kate Marvel | December 2019

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Time is running out...It's clear that for future generations we have to act now, in a very fast way." Giorgio Parisi, co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

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