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February 23, 2021

Watch Thrilling New Video of Mars Rover Landing An unprecedented look at the "seven minutes of terror" between Perseverance's fiery plunge through the planet's skies and its coming to rest on solid ground far below. By Lee Billings

Space Mars Video Reveals Perseverance Rover's Daring Touchdown The NASA spacecraft has also snapped more shots of its surroundings and listened to a Martian wind gust By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Medicine 7 Ways to Reduce Reluctance to Take COVID Vaccines Trusted messengers and repeated reminders can overcome hesitancy, social science shows By Claudia Wallis

Conservation A Few Fixes Could Cut Noise Pollution That Hurts Ocean Animals Redesigning ship propellors and installing acoustic "curtains" could lower the volume on anthropogenic noise that disrupts ocean life By Joseph Polidoro

Public Health COVID Variants May Arise in People with Compromised Immune Systems The case history of a U.K. man in his 70s shows how selective "pressures" bring about viral mutations By Stephani Sutherland

Climate Mountain Mammals Climb Higher to Beat the Heat In the Rocky Mountains, dozens of small mammal species have shifted to higher elevations over time By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Behavior & Society How to Restore America's Humanity Guaranteeing economic security is crucial; so is sending the message that every one of us matters By Scott Barry Kaufman

Conservation E-Eggs Track Turtle Traffickers Decoy sea turtle eggs containing tracking tech are new weapons against beach poachers and traffickers. By Karen Hopkin | 04:07

Policy & Ethics Facebook Would Rather Ban News in Australia Than Pay for it The tech giant's ban on Australians searching for news on its platform suggests that equitable control of international reporting is very much a work in progress By Vanessa Freije,The Conversation US

Biology 'March Mammal Madness' Brings Simulated Animal Fights to Huge Audiences The annual science education event describes imaginary encounters to teach ecology By David Shiffman

Space New Supernova Alert System Promises Early Access to Spectacles in Space Upgrades to the SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS) detection system offer advance notice of impending blasts By James Riordon

Behavior & Society A Vaccination against the Pandemic of Misinformation False beliefs, similar to those seen in Alzheimer's patients, may result from a lack of science literacy By Serggio Lanata,Bruce L. Miller

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Summer on Mars: NASA's Perseverance Rover Is One of Three Missions Ready to Launch A new generation of orbiters, landers and rovers will study the Red Planet as never before, setting the stage for returning pristine samples to Earth By Jonathan O'Callaghan | July 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "This is the first time we've been able to see ourselves--to see our spacecraft--land on the surface of another planet." Matt Wallace, Perseverance mission's deputy project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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