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April 21, 2023

Space Exploration SpaceX's Starship Fails Upward in Milestone Test 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

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

Artificial Intelligence What You Need to Know about GPT-4 The AI GPT-4 has emergent abilities—but that’s not why it’s scary.  By Sophie Bushwick,Kelso Harper,Tulika Bose | 09:27

Public Health Deadly Bacteria in Eyedrops May Spread from Person to Person Infections of a new strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa that have led to blindness and death highlight the worsening antibiotic resistance crisis By Allison Parshall

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Water The West Braces for the Most Epic Snowmelt in 40 Years Communities across the U.S. West are preparing for flooding and mudslide disasters as record snow begins to melt By Chad Hecht,The Conversation

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

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

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

Planetary Science Europe Successfully Launches JUICE Mission to Study Jupiter's Icy Moons The ambitious Jupiter moon mission JUICE has begun its long journey to the Jovian system By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

History The Surprising Backstory behind Witch Hunts and Reproductive Labor Two of the foremost experts on witch hunts talk about the link between the formation of domestic labor and the rise of witch hunting. By Tulika Bose | 07:16

Conservation This Astoundingly Simple Ancient Technique Is Helping to Beat Back Drought Amid a warming world, these conservationists have brought back a very old and very low-tech drought-busting practice and they are getting results. By Kit R. Roane,Retro Report

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

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 5

BRING SCIENCE HOME Plug a Leaky Bottle with the Power of Air! How can air exchange work to stop a leak? Grab a balloon and a water bottle and use physics to solve this challenge!  Credit: George Retseck You might have heard people talking about pressure before: maybe that there is too much of it, or not enough. Pressure can mean different things in everyday English, but in general when scientists talk about pressure they mean a constant physical force (such as a push or a pull) exerted or applied to an object. For example, if you sit on an inflated balloon, you can see the effect of the pressure on that balloon—at least, until it pops! In this activity we’re going to use pressure in an unexpected way. Can you keep air in a balloon without tying the bottom? What about keeping water inside a bottle, even if there’s a hole in it? Maybe you can do both—with just the right amount of pressure!

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