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March 30, 2022

Extraterrestrial Life Researchers Made a New Message for Extraterrestrials An updated communication could be beamed out for space alien listeners in hopes of making first contact By Daniel Oberhaus

Animals Homing Pigeons Remember Routes for Years Even after four years away from a release site, pigeons took similar paths home By Robin Donovan

Animals New Research Decodes the Sea Cow's Hidden Language Florida manatees are "talking" up a storm, and a team that has been recording those sounds for seven years is starting to understand the chatter. By Ashleigh Papp | 05:14

Artificial Intelligence AI-Influenced Weapons Need Better Regulation The weapons are error-prone and could hit the wrong targets By Branka Marijan

Oceans All Ocean Life Follows This Massive Pattern--Except Where Humans Have Interfered Humans have shifted the weight of life in the sea By Nikk Ogasa

Climate Change Biden Seeks Major Spending Boost for Global Climate Efforts More than $11 billion would go toward international initiatives such as the Green Climate Fund By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Astrophysics Astronomers See a Bizarre Space Circle in Unprecedented Detail Researchers have sighted only a handful of these odd radio circles, and are trying to pin down what causes them By Jacinta Bowler,Nature magazine

Policy Laws Vilifying Transgender Children and Their Families Are Abusive Recent measures in Florida, Texas and elsewhere serve to traumatize trans children and their families, uphold ideas that trans children are inherently troubled, and go against medical advice By Tey Meadow,Kristina R. Olson

Computing 'Momentum Computing' Pushes Technology's Thermodynamic Limits Overheating is a major problem for today's computers, but those of tomorrow might stay cool by circumventing a canonical boundary on information processing By Philip Ball

Epidemiology What One Million COVID Dead Mean for the U.S.'s Future The country is about to reach an unthinkably grim milestone. Nearly 200,000 children have lost parents, many more elderly have been killed, and family well-being has been ripped apart By Melody Schreiber

Epidemiology How the War in Ukraine Is Causing Indirect Deaths Crowded shelters and destroyed health care facilities will likely exacerbate COVID, TB and other diseases By Tanya Lewis

Climate Change What to Know about Antarctica's Conger Ice Shelf Collapse Though this particular collapse is not a major concern, events like it are becoming more common By Hilmar Gudmundsson,Adrian Jenkins,Bertie Miles,The Conversation US

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Search for Alien Life Ignites Battle over Giant Telescope Private funding for the Arecibo Observatory—the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world—may be a poison pill By Lee Billings | July 2015

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