NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission Is 'Go' for Launch

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August 25, 2022

Space Exploration NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission Is 'Go' for Launch The U.S. is preparing to send astronauts to the moon for the first time in 50 years By Nadia Drake

Space Exploration The 'Program Is Precarious': Lori Garver on NASA's Artemis I Moonshot A former NASA deputy administrator speaks candidly about the troubled history and radical potential of the space agency's lunar return By Nadia Drake

Vaccines New Polio Outbreaks Worldwide Put Scientists on Alert Cases of paralysis in the U.S. and Israel suggest vaccine-derived poliovirus has infected many people By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Vaccines COVID Has Set Back Childhood Immunizations Worldwide No child should have to die of a preventable disease. Getting pediatric vaccine numbers back to what they used to be will take money, time and cooperation By Seth Berkley

Genetics Blind Cave Fish May Trade Color for Energy Pasty cave fish seem to repurpose a melanin-making molecule to better survive famine By Viviane Callier

Animals Dogs Actually Tear Up When Their Owners Come Home Our puppies' eyes well up, a reaction caused by oxytocin, which makes us want to take care of them even more. By Karen Hopkin | 03:11

Epidemiology Long COVID in Children Appears Less Common Than Early Fears Suggested Although the risk of long COVID is not insignificant, it is much lower than previously thought By Shannon Hall

Sex & Gender How Medicine's Fixation on the Sex Binary Harms Intersex People "Normalizing" infants' and children's genital appearance to match a sex assigned in early age isn't medically necessary and can negatively impact quality of life By Meghan McDonough

Oceans See Delicate Rib Vortices Encircle Breaking Ocean Waves These little-studied mini twisters form beautiful loops under the water's surface By Joanna Thompson

FROM THE STORE Revolutions in Science Normally science proceeds in incremental steps, but sometimes a discovery is so profound that it causes a paradigm shift. This eBook is a collection of articles about those kinds of advances, including revolutionary discoveries about the origin of life, theories of learning, formation of the solar system and more. *Editor's Note: Revolutions in Science was originally published as a Collector's Edition. The eBook adaptation contains all of the articles, but some of the artwork has been removed to optimize viewing on mobile devices.

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