With New Study, NASA Seeks the Science behind UFOs

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August 05, 2022

Extraterrestrial Life With New Study, NASA Seeks the Science behind UFOs Although modest in scope, a NASA research project reflects shifting attitudes toward the formerly taboo subject of UFOs By Adam Mann

Health Care Algorithm That Detects Sepsis Cut Deaths by Nearly 20 Percent Over two years, a machine-learning program warned thousands of health care providers about patients at high risk of sepsis, allowing them to begin treatments nearly two hours sooner By Sophie Bushwick

Climate Change Ongoing Megadrought Puts the West in 'Uncharted Waters' Scientists say the current drought in the West is the region's driest 22-year stretch in more than 1,200 years By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

Sponsor Content Provided by Celadon Books The Viral Underclass In the tradition of Caste and The New Jim Crow, The Viral Underclass, by Scientific American columnist Steven W. Thrasher, helps us understand the world more deeply by showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival.

Public Health The New Normal for COVID Calls for a New Narrative We've swung between fear and denial for too long and need to talk about this disease from a different perspective By Steven Phillips

Statistics How Florence Nightingale Changed Data Visualization Forever The celebrated nurse improved public health through her groundbreaking use of graphic storytelling By RJ Andrews

Reproduction Genetic Counselors Scramble Post-Roe to Provide Routine Pregnancy Services without Being Accused of a Crime The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade means that prenatal advice to patients can suffer and that counselors can face lawsuits and criminal charges By Laura Hercher

Climate Change Three Reasons Appalachia's Risk of Deadly Floods Keeps Rising A warming climate, a unique topography and the legacy of coal mining have increased the odds of extreme flooding in Appalachia By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Climate Change How the Senate Climate Bill Will Boost Clean Energy The surprise climate bill's electricity provisions would help the U.S. surge toward its emissions reduction goals By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Vaccines How Common Are Reinfections? And How Trust Can Beat the Virus: COVID, Quickly, Episode 35 On this episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we talk about getting reinfected with the coronavirus just a month or two after an earlier bout—and the difference that trusting others can make in a pandemic. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Tulika Bose,Jeffery DelViscio | 08:00

Public Health What Could Actually Work to Curb Gun Violence Evidence-based solutions to firearm safety range from banning assault weapons to increasing green spaces By Lawrence O. Gostin

Paleontology Little Pterosaur Could Have 'Pole-Vaulted' into Flight from the Water New fossil analysis offers the first physical evidence of this launch strategy By Riley Black

Reproduction A Proposed Antiabortion Law Infringes on Free Speech A law would make it illegal to share abortion information on the Internet and raises serious concerns about freedom of speech nationwide By Hayley Tsukayama

BRING SCIENCE HOME Can You Spot the Dot? The amazing disappearing dot! It's not magic--it's science! Learn how you can fool your own eyes with this surprising science activity.   Have you ever wanted to make something disappear? You might just be able to. Your eyes collect information with quick movements around your environment and pass this information onto your brain. In this activity we will take advantage of the way your eyes and brain talk to each other to make colored dots seem to appear and disappear. (Sorry, this disappearing act probably won't work on your homework!)

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