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Climate Change This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives Heat waves broke temperature records around the world this past summer, but it will still be one of the coolest summers of the next few decades By Andrea Thompson

Space Exploration NASA's Next Launch Attempt for Artemis I Will Occur September 3 Technical glitches and questionable weather forecasts continue to delay liftoff for NASA's landmark lunar mission By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

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

Black Holes Black Hole Discovery Helps to Explain Quantum Nature of the Cosmos New insights from black hole research may elucidate the cosmological event horizon By Edgar Shaghoulian

Public Health How to Improve Indoor Air Quality Why do we pay attention to the quality of our drinking water but not to our indoor air? Scientific American senior health editor Tanya Lewis explains how and why this matters. By Tanya Lewis,Tulika Bose

Planetary Science Webb Telescope Finds Carbon Dioxide on a Distant Exoplanet The result offers a sneak peek at the observatory's transformative potential for studying worlds beyond the solar system By Shannon Hall,Nature magazine

Artificial Intelligence This Artificial Intelligence Learns like a 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

Black Holes How the Inside of a Black Hole Is Secretly on the Outside Mysterious "islands" help to explain what happens to information that falls into a black hole By Ahmed Almheiri

Memory Eye Tests May Help Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease A host of different retinal exams are being evaluated as potential Alzheimer's screening methods By Diana Kwon

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

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

Education The Science of School and Education Here are solutions to improve students' emotional, physical, and mental health and to boost educational outcomes

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.

BRING SCIENCE HOME See Change: 2 Eyes, 1 Picture Can you see it now? How our brain transforms two pictures into one Credit: George Retseck Is catching, juggling or heading a ball challenging for you? If you've ever tried threading a needle, did it end in frustration? Have you ever thought of blaming your eyes? Two eyes that work together help you estimate how far a ball is or where the thread is with respect to the needle. This "working together" of the eyes actually happens in the brain. The brain receives two images (one for each eye), processes them together with the other information received and returns one image, resulting in what we "see". Are you curious about how depth perception enters the picture? "See" for yourself with this activity!

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