Animals in the Pacific Garbage Patch, how to stop fentanyl, life on Mars

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April 17, 2023

Oceans Surprising Creatures Lurk in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic creates strange communities that bring coastal and open-ocean animals together By Meghan Bartels

Extraterrestrial Life Mars Rovers Might Miss Signs of Alien Life, Study Suggests The hunt for Martian life focuses on detecting organic molecules that could indicate its past existence. Are our instruments up to the task? By Derek Smith

Policy Stopping Fentanyl at the Border Won't Work. We Must Reimagine Drug Law Enforcement Law enforcement should fight crime, violence, and corruption and not pretend its job is to shrink the illicit drug supply enough to prevent its use By Jonathan Caulkins,Peter Reuter

Arts Poem: 'Extravehicular Activity' Science in meter and verse By Howard V. Hendrix

Microbiology Mysterious Microbes in Earth's Crust Might Help with the Climate Crisis Wherever we dig and however deep we dig, we find microscopic living organisms. Could they eat the carbon we’re pumping into the air? By Karen G. Lloyd,Peter Barry,David Terry Fine

Drug Use These Doctors Fought the Federal Bureau of Narcotics to Treat Addiction--With Drugs In the early 1960s a trio at the Rockefeller Institute started a bold experiment to change the way heroin addiction was treated, and they did so using a drug originally created by “the devil’s chemist” By Katie Hafner,Carol Sutton Lewis,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 4

FROM THE ARCHIVE A Journey into the Pacific Garbage Patch [Slide Show] | February 2017

WHAT WE'RE READING Meet the Little Brown Bird That Holds a Mirror Up to Humanity Whether we love, hate, or ignore the familiar House Sparrow, its story can teach us about how we relate to the natural world—and each other. By Rosemary Mosco | Audubon | April 5, 2023

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