NASA's Artemis Delays Fuel Controversy over Rocket Design

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September 20, 2022

Space Exploration NASA's Artemis Delays Fuel Controversy over Rocket Design The first test flight of the space agency's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft is plagued by delays decades in the making By Nadia Drake

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Needs Both Pragmatists and Blue-Sky Visionaries For humanity's brightest future, the blue-sky, lofty thinkers in AI need the help of the muddy-boots pragmatists By Ben Shneiderman

Fossil Fuels U.S. Fossil-Fuel Reserves Alone Could Put Global Climate Targets Out of Reach A new fossil-fuel tracker tallies global oil, gas, and coal reserves and projects to show how current production could drive the world above the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius By Heather Richards,E&E News

Climate Change Vultures Prevent Tens of Millions of Metric Tons of Carbon Emissions Each Year Vultures get a bad reputation for their carrion-scavenging ways, but their dietary habits prevent the release of greenhouse gases By Ian Rose

Black Holes The First Milky Way Black Hole Image Lets Scientists Test Physics The first image of the behemoth at the center of our galaxy opens new avenues for understanding the nature of black holes By Seth Fletcher

Neurology Voice Training Is a Medical Necessity for Many Transgender People Multiple strategies—including speech therapy—can help those whose voice and gender identity are not aligned and can improve their quality of life By Z Paige Lerario

Psychology Moral Injury Is an Invisible Epidemic That Affects Millions A specific kind of trauma results when a person's core principles are violated during wartime or a pandemic By Elizabeth Svoboda

Drug Use A Recent Supreme Court Ruling Will Help People In Pain By ruling in favor of two doctors accused of running pill mills, SCOTUS is clarifying opioid prescription practices By Maia Szalavitz

Extraterrestrial Life Perseverance Mars Rover Makes 'Fantastic' Find in Search for Past Life NASA's Perseverance rover has collected four rock samples from an ancient river delta where organisms might have thrived By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Climate Change Why Typhoon Merbok Was So Powerful when It Hit Alaska Typhoon Merbok heavily damaged Alaskan communities, many of which are Indigenous and rely on subsistence hunting that residents would normally be doing right now By Rick Thoman,The Conversation US

Space Exploration The FCC Is Finally Taking Space Junk Seriously A new potential rule from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission would set a five-year deadline for defunct satellites to be removed from space By Jonathan O'Callaghan

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