Quantum Tunneling Makes DNA More Unstable

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September 21, 2022

Genetics Quantum Tunneling Makes DNA More Unstable The freaky physics phenomenon of quantum tunneling may mutate genes By Lars Fischer,Gary Stix

Planetary Science NASA's Asteroid-Crashing DART Mission Is Ready for Impact The DART mission to redirect an asteroid could be just the beginning of a robust planetary-defense program By Keith Cooper,SPACE.com

Privacy How Census Data Put Trans Children at Risk The Census Bureau must improve its data anonymization methods to protect vulnerable groups By Os Keyes,Abraham D. Flaxman

Anatomy Chewing Consumes a Surprising Amount of Energy Chomping on food takes so much energy that it shaped human evolution. Our ancestors spent many hours a day chewing, which may have shaped our teeth and jaws. By Christopher Intagliata | 03:28

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

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

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

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

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

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

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