Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Have Devastating Health and Financial Impacts, Landmark Study Showed

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May 06, 2022

Inequality Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Have Devastating Health and Financial Impacts, Landmark Study Showed The researcher who led the Turnaway Study explains how being denied an abortion had lasting negative effects on those who were forced to carry their pregnancies to term and on their children By Tanya Lewis

Vaccines Nose Spray Vaccines Could Quash COVID Virus Variants Three nasal spritzes, now in advanced trials, could trigger stronger immunity than shots in the arm By Marla Broadfoot

Climate Change Astonishing Heat Grips India and Pakistan Sustained temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit threaten people, wheat crops and power supplies By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Psychology The Dark Side of Collaboration People working together often scheme to put profits ahead of telling the truth. New research points to ways to stop this behavior By Margarita Leib

Oceans Scientists Warn of Looming Mass Ocean Extinction If greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, temperature spikes could bring the first such mass extinction in 250 million years By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Defense The Navy Extracted a Jet Fighter from 12,400 Feet below the Surface of the South China Sea But the U.S. must probe even further to catch up with China’s access to the ocean’s deepest reaches By Jason Sherman

Water Coastal Cities Are Drinking Themselves Underwater Cities are sinking as they guzzle groundwater—and oil and gas—from below By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Artificial Intelligence AI Sommelier Generates Wine Reviews without Ever Opening a Bottle A new algorithm writes wine and beer reviews that sound like they were penned by human critics. Is that a good thing? By Joanna Thompson

Cosmology Canadian Telescope Delivers Deepest-Ever Radio View of Cosmic Web Data from the CHIME radio observatory are a milestone in the quest to discover the hidden origins of universal structure By Ben Brubaker

Psychology Can't Buy Me Luck: The Role of Serendipity in the Beatles' Success The right combination of variables is needed to achieve a blazing success—one explanation for why there was never a “Kinksmania” By Lydia Denworth

Animals What Birds Really Listen for in Birdsong (It's Not What You Think) Birds seem to pay more attention to fine acoustic details that humans cannot hear than to the melodies that captivate us By Adam Fishbein

Space Exploration Old Russian Rocket Motor Explodes in Orbit, Creating More Space Debris Ground stations are currently tracking sixteen fragments associated with the event, which occurred on April 15 By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

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BRING SCIENCE HOME Colored Shadows What colors do you see? Use colorful shadows to explore how your eyes detect a rainbow of hues. You can even create your own blends, painting with light!  Credit: George Retseck Have you ever wondered what the world would look like without colors? Most of us take them for granted because we see them everywhere: blue sky, green grass, yellow flowers and countless more. Your eyes are actually able to distinguish up to 10 million colors! But where do all the colors come from? And how do our eyes detect them all? Find out with a little help from some shadows. Then you can paint with light—creating your own color blends by mixing red, green and blue light!

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