What One Million COVID Dead Mean for the U.S.'s Future

Sponsored by

    

April 01, 2022

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

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 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

Sponsor Content Provided by Wiley There's beauty in the breakthrough Discover new skills and expertise with the limitless resources at wiley.com.

Astronomy 5,000 Exoplanets! NASA Confirms a Cosmic Milestone Three decades after it began, the exoplanet revolution shows no sign of slowing down By Elizabeth Howell,SPACE.com

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

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

Biotech This Mushroom Leather Is Being Made into Hermès Handbags A bioreactor-made material is being marketed as an animal-friendly leather alternative that also aims to help save the planet By Emily Waltz,Nature Biotechnology

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

Anthropology Anthropology Association Apologizes to Native Americans for the Field's Legacy of Harm For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history By Rachel Parsons

Fossil Fuels The U.S. Will Increase Natural Gas Exports to Europe to Replace Russian Fuel Biden administration officials are also promising to accelerate the build-out of hydrogen and carbon capture By Sara Schonhardt,Scott Waldman,E&E News

Neuroscience Does This Look like a Face to You? Science—and experience—show that we most definitely see faces in inanimate objects. But new research finds that, more often than not, we perceive those illusory faces as male. By Karen Hopkin | 03:53

Diversity Women Are Creating a New Culture for Astronomy A new generation of scientists are challenging the biased, hierarchical status quo By Ann Finkbeiner

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 31, Issue 2s

ADVERTISEMENT

BRING SCIENCE HOME Build an Artificial Hand Build a working hand that you can control! What will you be able to pick up? Find out--and learn about engineering and anatomy--with this gripping activity! Credit: George Retseck The human hand is pretty amazing. You can do things such as pick up a pencil, use a video game controller or climb a jungle gym without giving it much thought. Building a artificial hand that can do all those things quite a challenge! In this project you will try to build a simple artificial gripper that can pick up small objects.

LATEST ISSUES

Questions?   Comments?

Download the Scientific American App

To view this email as a web page, go here. You received this email because you opted-in to receive email from Scientific American. To ensure delivery please add news@email.scientificamerican.com to your address book. Unsubscribe     Manage Email Preferences     Privacy Policy     Contact Us