Looming Rocket Impact Forecasts Trouble for Future Lunar Exploration

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March 01, 2022

Space Exploration Looming Rocket Impact Forecasts Trouble for Future Lunar Exploration Although the space-junk strike on March 4 will probably be harmless, such events may soon become more common—and dangerous By Robin George Andrews

Mathematics Mathematicians Protest Russia Hosting Major Conference For years, concerned researchers have been calling for a boycott of the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians By Rachel Crowell

Computing The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud The cloud is not only material but also an ecological force By Steven Gonzalez Monserrate,The MIT Press Reader

Biotech Artificial Neuron Snaps a Venus Flytrap Shut Researchers say that such bio-integrated systems could be the future of prosthetics By Joanna Thompson

Climate Change Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons from Bangladesh The latest IPCC report makes it clear that countries rich and poor have to forcefully adapt to a warming world By Saleemul Huq

Inequality COVID Has Made Global Inequality Much Worse The poor, no matter where they live, will suffer the greatest lasting toll By Joseph E. Stiglitz

Epidemiology New Studies Support Wuhan Market as Pandemic's Origin Point The reports’ authors say that the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, jumped from animals sold at the market to people twice in late 2019—but some scientists want more definitive evidence By Amy Maxmen,Nature magazine

Neuroscience Researchers Make a Phantom Sixth Finger Grow and Shrink An unsettling illusion points to both philosophy and robotics By Matthew Hutson

Climate Change With 'Limited Amount of Time Left,' New IPCC Report Urges Climate Adaptation Human and natural systems are already buckling under the influence of global warming, write the authors of a landmark report By Chelsea Harvey,Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Climate Change New Nuclear Power Plants Are Unlikely to Stop the Climate Crisis These plants take too long to build and bring online, and we don’t have that much time By Naomi Oreskes

Anthropology Ancient Peoples Teach Us That We Can Create a Better World A radical retelling of civilization’s origins leads to an expansive vision of human possibility By John Horgan

Health Care A Faster Way to Find Good Medical Treatments Is Gaining Ground A type of clinical trial that tests many therapies at once is being used for COVID and Alzheimer’s By Claudia Wallis

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Space & Physics, Volume 5, Issue 1

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Can a Moon Base Be Safe for Astronauts? Creating a sustainable human presence beyond low-Earth orbit requires a clear-eyed view of the risks—and rewards—inherent in spaceflight By Rebecca Boyle | October 2020

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