Water Found in Sunlight and Shadow on the Moon

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October 26, 2020

Space Water Found in Sunlight and Shadow on the Moon Observations by NASA's SOFIA telescope and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal signs of water in sun-baked lunar soil, as well as in small, dark craters By Leonard David

Public Health Why COVID Outbreaks Could Worsen This Winter It's too soon to say whether COVID is seasonal like the flu—but where clusters aren't under control, infections will continue to swell By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Biology Seabirds Anticipate Typhoons to Help Migrations Terns seem to pass through just after powerful typhoons By Joshua Rapp Learn

Space NASA's OSIRIS-REx Is Overflowing with Asteroid Samples The mission team is working to stow the sample as fast as possible to minimize losses By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Medicine COVID's Other Toll: Unnecessary Tests and Huge Hospital Bills They highlight one of the biggest problems in American health care By Carolyn Barber

Medicine Billions of Dollars for Stem Cell Research Institute On California's November Ballot Voters must decide whether to keep financing the second largest funder of stem cell science in the world By Rachel Bluth,Kaiser Health News

Natural Disasters Colorado Contends with Record-Setting Wildfires It is unclear how much expected snows would help comabit the blazes raging across drought-parched land By John Fialka,E&E News

Arts & Culture Why Some Easter Island Statues Are Where They Are Many of the statues not along the coast are in places that featured a resource vital to the communities that lived and worked there. By Karen Hopkin | 02:57

Public Health COVID-19 Herd Immunity Strategies Could Bring 'Untold Death and Suffering' Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course—embraced by Donald Trump's administration and others—are a false promise By Christie Aschwanden,Nature magazine

Behavior & Society Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences Scanners try to watch the red-blue divide play out underneath the skull By Lydia Denworth

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FROM THE ARCHIVE NASA's Hunt for Lunar Water Intensifies The space agency's plans for sustainable lunar outposts could hinge on finding—and using—what may be the moon's most precious resource By Leonard David | June 2020

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