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February 17, 2021

Policy & Ethics Stop Domestic Terrorism Our national leaders must take on racist-driven violence in the U.S. By THE EDITORS

Space How NASA Aims to Achieve Perseverance's High-Stakes Mars Landing The robotic rover's touchdown is meant to be the most accurate ever attempted on the Red Planet, opening the way for future pinpoint landfalls throughout the solar system By Jatan Mehta

Climate Texas Power Outage Underscores Looming Climate Tests Extreme weather is increasingly likely to test electric grids and energy supply systems By Benjamin Storrow,Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Behavior & Society Entitled People Are More Likely To Be Angry at Bad Luck Even when nobody is to blame, some feel they were victimized By Alex Jordan,Emily Zitek

Evolution Mammoth Genomes Shatter Record for Oldest DNA Sequences Researchers extracted DNA from fossils that are more than a million years old, illuminating the origins of the woolly mammoth and the Columbian mammoth By Kate Wong

Policy & Ethics Will Quantum Computers Truly Serve Humanity? Let's take advantage of this early stage of their development to avoid the mistakes of past technological upheavals By Ilyas Khan

Evolution Dinosaur Discoveries Are Booming Fossils are being found worldwide, and there are plenty more to come By Katie Peek

Biology What Scientists Have Learned from 100 Years of Bird Banding A rich archive of data has illuminated the secret lives of birds By Kate Wong,Jan Willem Tulp,Liz Wahid

Biology Snakes' Flexible, Heat-Sensing Organs Explained Scientists decode how some snakes "see" in the dark By Harini Barath

Arts & Culture The Most Accurate Flat Map of Earth Yet A cosmologist and his colleagues tackle a centuries-old cartographic conundrum By J. Richard Gott

FROM THE STORE The Future of Energy: Earth, Wind and Fire Since the Industrial Revolution our civilization has depended on fossil fuels for energy – first it was coal; then petroleum. If business as usual continues, we are looking at a world where sea levels will be high enough to submerge many coastal cities and extreme weather events like 2012's Hurricane Sandy are the new normal. In this eBook, The Earth, Wind and Fire, we review the energy problem and analyze the options from the mundane to the far out.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE What Research Says about Defeating Terrorism Seven enlightening studies from social psychology hold vital lessons for policy makers—and the rest of us By Kevin Dutton,Dominic Abrams | March 2016

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