Mars’s moons, AI mind reader, foggy Northwest passage

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May 02, 2023

Planetary Science Where Did Mars's Moons Come From? New results from a U.A.E. orbiter suggest Mars’s moons may be pieces of the planet. A Japanese mission will tell us for sure By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Artificial Intelligence A Brain Scanner Combined with an AI Language Model Can Provide a Glimpse into Your Thoughts New technology gleans the gist of stories a person hears while laying in a brain scanner By Allison Parshall

Climate Change Melting Sea Ice May Fog Out the Famed Northwest Passage Melting sea ice is opening new pathways through the Arctic such as the famed Northwest Passage. But it is also reducing visibility and potentially causing delays By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Ecology This Fleeting Ecosystem Is Magical, and You Have Probably Never Heard of It or Even Noticed It Vernal pools are home to spectacular residents such as fairy shrimp, but these unusual natural wonders are under threat. By Christopher Intagliata | 07:35

Climate Change Many Bird Species Are Having Fewer Chicks as the World Warms Many bird species are producing fewer offspring as global temperatures rise, and larger migratory species are particularly affected By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Sex & Gender Here's Why Human Sex Is Not Binary Ova don’t make a woman, and sperm don’t make a man By Agustín Fuentes

Biotech Proteins Never Seen in Nature Are Designed Using AI to Address Biomedical and Industrial Problems Unsolved by Evolution Bioengineers are drawing on rapidly evolving machine-learning tools, deep reservoirs of data and the firepower of a program called AlphaFold2 to pursue more sophisticated de novo protein designs By Michael Eisenstein,Nature magazine

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 5

FROM THE ARCHIVE Success of Tiny Mars Probes Heralds New Era of Deep-Space Cubesats Two pint-sized spacecraft, MarCO-A and MarCO-B, served as communications relays for NASA’s InSight lander By Mike Wall,SPACE.com | November 2018

WHAT WE'RE READING Ancient Romans Dropped Their Bling Down the Drain, Too Archaeologists have recovered a trove of fallen, forgotten ring stones from an 1,800-year-old bathhouse in England. By Franz Lidz | The New York Times | May 1, 2023

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