Virtual Reality System Lets You Stop and Smell the Roses

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May 09, 2023

Biotech Virtual Reality System Lets You Stop and Smell the Roses A wireless device worn on the face or lip can produce fragrances such as lavender and green tea in a virtual world By Simon Makin

Planetary Science NASA's Interplanetary Plans May Be Lurching toward Disaster Delays and budgetary overruns are causing many to worry that NASA’s ambitious planetary science program is at a breaking point By Shannon Hall

Astronomy JWST Sees Alien Asteroid Belt around Nearby Star The first asteroid belt ever found outside the solar system is more complex than expected By Robert Lea,SPACE.com

Public Health U.S. COVID Public Health Emergency Is Ending. Here's What That Means As the federal public health emergency is set to expire on May 11, here’s what you need to know about future COVID testing, treatment and vaccines By Lauren J. Young

Food Here's the Weird Physics That Makes Peanut Butter a Liquid Yes, peanut butter is a liquid (and a great example of a non-Newtonian fluid) By Ted Heindel,The Conversation US

Conservation Here's How to Use Window Films to Actually Protect Birds Bird-strike-deterrent window films don’t work if they’re placed on the indoor side By Susan Cosier

Ethics Amid War in Ukraine, Open-Source Intelligence Investigators Need Better Ethics Much of the open-source intelligence (OSINT) community ignores ethical questions and the safety risks of reporting discoveries from the war in Ukraine By Miron Lakomy

Conservation These Mini-Ecosystems Existed Underfoot of Dinosaurs, but Our Parking Lots Might Pave Them to Extinction Vernal Pools are safe havens for creatures like the fairy shrimp, who have lived through the end of the dinosaurs, the breakup of Pangea, and multiple ice ages, but humans are paving them over. By Christopher Intagliata | 08:35

Mathematics What Is Benford's Law? Why This Unexpected Pattern of Numbers Is Everywhere A curious mathematical phenomenon called Benford’s law governs the numbers all around us By Jack Murtagh

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