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April 20, 2023

Space Exploration SpaceX's Powerful Starship Explodes after Launch Starship, a super powerful launch system that could revolutionize access to space, soared for mere minutes—but its test flight is still being hailed as a success By Meghan Bartels

Psychology Extreme Views Are More Attractive Than Moderate Ones New research shows that people are drawn to others with more extreme versions of their own political views By Amit Goldenberg

Behavior What Makes People Act on Climate Change, according to Behavioral Science To get people to shift to more climate-friendly behavior, what works best? Education? Payments? Peer pressure? By Andrea Thompson

Animals Was the Tully Monster a Fish, a Worm, a Giant Slug with Fangs? Researchers close in on a taxonomic home for one of paleontology’s weirdest wonders, the Tully Monster By Jack Tamisiea

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Extraterrestrial Life How Far Should We Take Our Cosmic Humility? For centuries, scientific discoveries have suggested humanity occupies no privileged place in the universe. Now, however, studies of worlds beyond our solar system could place meaningful new limits on our existential mediocrity By Mario Livio

Astronomy A Mission to Jupiter's Strange Moons Is Finally On its Way The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) and Europa Clipper will search for signs of habitability on three of Jupiter's potentially ocean-bearing moons By Clara Moskowitz,Lee Billings,Kelso Harper | 07:29

Climate Change Colossal Iceberg Trapped Near Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' for 20 Years Is Finally on the Move Iceberg B-22A, which first broke off from Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier in 2002, is finally moving away from the South Pole after being freed from its seafloor tether By Harry Baker,LiveScience

Renewable Energy Tidal Power Faces a Fickle Future with Rising Seas To pull power from the waves, you need a high tidal range or strong currents. Sea-level rise threatens to mess with both By Doug Johnson,Hakai Magazine

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 5

FROM THE ARCHIVE SpaceX's Starship and NASA's SLS Could Supercharge Space Science Scientists are beginning to dream of how a new generation of super-heavy-lift rockets might enable revolutionary space telescopes and bigger, bolder interplanetary missions By Jonathan O'Callaghan | April 2022

WHAT WE'RE READING The NIH Has Poured $1 Billion into Long COVID Research -- with Little to Show For It   By Rachel Cohrs and Betsy Ladyzhets | STAT News | April 20, 2023

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