Asteroid-hunting radar, what relationships are good for, why the Amazon rainforest is so important

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February 21, 2023

Astronomy New Space Radar Will Hunt Planet-Threatening Asteroids The new ngRADAR at the Green Bank Telescope offers unprecedented Earth-based views of the solar system By Briley Lewis

Psychology Love and the Brain: Do Partnerships Really Make Us Happy? Here's What the Science Says How romance affects our well-being is a lot more complicated than "they lived happily ever after." By Shayla Love | 14:53

Climate Change Why Is the Amazon So Important for Climate Change? Here's why the Amazon rain forest is key to protecting Earth from the detrimental effects of climate change By Emma Bryce

Medicine Lab-Made Enzymes Could Chop Up the Virus That Causes COVID Artificial enzymes could fight COVID and other tough diseases By Simon Makin

Climate Change Global Internet Connectivity Is at Risk from Climate Disasters Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lining the seafloor are vulnerable to sea-level rise, storms and other climate impacts, research shows By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Toxicology Chemical Health Risks from the Ohio Train Accident--What We Know So Far A train carrying toxic and combustible materials derailed recently in Ohio. Here's what we know about the situation—and what we can't know yet By Meghan Bartels

Defense Chinese Spy Balloon Saga Shows UFOs Deserve Serious Investigations By shunting pilot observations aside, the Pentagon likely fostered a UFO fad and overlooked Chinese intelligence technology entering U.S. airspace By Mick West

Extraterrestrial Life At Jupiter, JUICE and Clipper Will Work Together in Hunt for Life A soon-to-launch European mission is the first of two spacecraft—with the other coming from NASA—that will hunt for signs of habitability on Jupiter's icy moons By Jonathan O'Callaghan

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 25, Issue 1s

FROM THE ARCHIVE Fresh Images Reveal Fireworks from DART's Asteroid Impact The celestial crash between NASA's DART spacecraft and the asteroid Dimorphos is yielding spectacular pictures and data By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine | September 2022

WHAT WE'RE READING Bruce Willis has Frontotemporal Dementia. So Did My Dad. It's not Alzheimer's. Here's what caring for someone with frontotemporal dementia looks like. By Alison McCook | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Feb. 17, 2023

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