Chinese Rocket Will Crash to Earth on November 5: Here's What We Know

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November 03, 2022

Space Exploration Chinese Rocket Will Crash to Earth on November 5: Here's What We Know Yet another Chinese rocket is set to tumble uncontrollably back to Earth this week By Ben Turner,LiveScience

Space Exploration China's Space Station Is Almost Complete--How Will Scientists Use It? China's Tiangong orbital outpost will host more than 1,000 experiments, some of which will augment results from the International Space Station By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Climate Change The Middle East Is Going Green while Supplying Oil to Others Middle Eastern governments are ramping up their green ambitions ahead of the COP27 climate summit but show few signs of reining in fossil-fuel exports By Elizabeth Gibney,Nature magazine

Astronomy NASA Is Studying a Private Mission to Boost Hubble's Orbit. Is It Worth the Risk? SpaceX and the entrepreneur Jared Isaacman are pursuing a plan to rescue the iconic Hubble Space Telescope from a fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere By Irene Klotz

Climate Change More African-Led Research on Adaptation Will Help the Continent Survive Climate Change Learning how to adapt to global warming will save lives and economies, yet most of the funding for climate change in Africa goes to outside research on mitigation By Edna Odhiambo

Public Health What to Do if You're Trapped in a Surging Crowd Crowd management experts explain the factors that enabled Seoul's deadly crowd crush By Daniel Leonard

Climate Change The World Isn't Adapting to Climate Change Quickly Enough, U.N. Says Climate adaptation—and funding to support it—will be a major focus of the COP 27 climate meeting set to start on Sunday in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Animals Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human Scientists demonstrate that crows are capable of recursion—a key feature in grammar. Not everyone is convinced By Diana Kwon

Politics How to Inoculate against Midterm Misinformation Campaigns A New York University professor advocates "prebunking"—sounding the alarm before a conspiracy theory spreads too widely By Emily Willingham

Reproduction Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Could Be Approved Next Year If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first over-the-counter birth control pill, pharmacists and pharmacies could play an ever-increasing role in reproductive health care By Lucas Berenbrok,Marian Jarlenski,The Conversation US

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