How Iran Is Using the Protests to Block More Open Internet Access

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October 13, 2022

Privacy How Iran Is Using the Protests to Block More Open Internet Access The Iranian government is taking advantage of Internet shutdowns to push citizens onto a local intranet that is vulnerable to surveillance and censorship By Sophie Bushwick

Climate Change Greenland Is Disappearing Quickly, and Scientists Have Found a New Reason Why Meltwater from Greenland churns the ocean, speeding the loss of glaciers like stirring ice cubes in a glass of water By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Reproduction Male Birth Control Is in Development, but Barriers Still Stand in the Way A scientist who has been developing male birth control since the 1970s says safe, reversible and affordable options are possible By Christina Chung-Lun Wang,The Conversation US

Epidemiology What Does the Future of Monkeypox Look Like? With cases declining in the U.S. and Europe, here are some scenarios of how the outbreak might play out By Sara Reardon,Nature magazine

Planetary Science Jupiter's Ocean Moon Europa Is Ready for Its Close-up Fresh data from the Juno probe's flyby of Europa could help scientists learn whether this icy moon of Jupiter is habitable—or even inhabited By Daniel Leonard

Epidemiology Ebola Outbreak in Uganda Surges, But the Country Has a Plan Uganda's Ebola incident commander talks with Scientific American about the outbreak's spread, the country's response and the risk of cross-border transmission By Paul Adepoju

Engineering This Black Female Engineer Broke through the Double Bind of Racism and Sexism and Directly Nurtured a Legion of STEM Leaders Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y., had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements. In the final episode of this season's Lost Women of Science podcast, we see how Y.Y.'s more than five decades of teaching educated a new generation of mechanical engineers, who credit her with helping to change the industry By Katie Hafner,Carol Sutton Lewis,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Conservation Drones Sample Rare Specimens from Cliffs and Other Dangerous Places Flying robots help researchers identify and protect threatened plants and other species in places that are inaccessible to humans By Susan Cosier

Planetary Science DART's Smashing Success Shows Humanity Can Divert Asteroids NASA confirms that its DART spacecraft nudged the asteroid Dimorphos into a new orbit By Rahul Rao,Nature magazine

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