Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power

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September 19, 2022

Archaeology Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic By Francine Russo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Animals How Facebook Is Saving Snakes Snake-identification groups on social media are turning serpent haters into appreciators By Emily Willingham

Climate Change Climate Change Likely Worsened Pakistan's Devastating Floods A new analysis finds that extreme rainfall has intensified across Pakistan and could become even more severe as the planet heats up By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Vaccines Your Questions about the New COVID Booster Shots, Answered New COVID booster vaccines built for the latest variants are here and should be more effective. But there are still some unknowns By Mariana Lenharo

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