Rocket Woes Delay Launch of NASA's Artemis I Mission

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August 29, 2022

Space Exploration Rocket Woes Delay Launch of NASA's Artemis I Mission A problem with one of the Space Launch System's main engines has postponed the test flight until at least September 2 By Tariq Malik,SPACE.com

Computing Making Computer Chips Act More like Brain Cells Flexible organic circuits that mimic biological neurons could increase processing speed and might someday hook right into your head By Kurt Kleiner,Knowable Magazine

Oceans Hope for New Drugs Arises from the Sea Compounds that marine creatures make to defend themselves could yield lifesaving medicines By Stephanie Stone

Neuroscience See the Top Entries in the Art of Neuroscience Competition Van Gogh and Ramón y Cajal, like you've never seen them before, in the annual Art of Neuroscience Competition By Fionna M. D. Samuels,Liz Tormes

Pharmaceuticals Does a Smallpox Drug Work for Monkeypox? What Scientists Know The antiviral Tecovirimat (TPOXX) shows promise against monkeypox, but human data and supplies are limited By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Materials Science Recycled Wind Turbines Could Be Made into Plexiglass, Diapers or Gummy Bears A new resin can hold fiberglass wind turbines together for years and then be recycled into valuable products, making green energy even greener By Sophie Bushwick

Mental Health Doctors Need to Learn to Talk about Suicide Medical schools have neglected suicide, one of the leading causes of death. Teaching specific skills, including empathy, can help doctors save lives By Rodolfo Bonnin,Leonard M. Gralnik

Artificial Intelligence This Artificial Intelligence Learns like a Widdle Baby Engineers at the company DeepMind built a machine-learning system based on research on how babies' brain works, and it did better on certain tasks than its conventional counterparts. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:36

Genetic Engineering Mouse Embryos Grown without Eggs or Sperm Two research teams grew synthetic embryos using stem cells for long enough to see some organs develop By Cassandra Willyard,Nature magazine

FROM THE STORE Extraterrestrials and the Search for Life Do aliens exist? The enduring mystery of whether we're alone in the universe is a question that continues to drive scientific study into groundbreaking directions. This collection examines the latest thinking in the search for life, from discussing why we haven't found evidence of aliens so far to determining where and how to conduct the search to opening up the possibilities for what otherworldly life could truly look like.

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