Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Astronaut Who Orbited Moon, Dies at 90

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April 28, 2021

Space Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Astronaut Who Orbited Moon, Dies at 90 Collins piloted the command module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down in 1969 By Robert Z. Pearlman,SPACE.com

Climate You Can Taste Climate Change in this Awful Beer New Belgium Brewing is selling a smoke-flavored brew as a sensory warning about agriculture's troubles to come By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Public Health People of Color Breathe More Unhealthy Air from Nearly All Polluting Sources A trend of disproportionate exposure to deadly air pollution among Asian, Hispanic and Black people persists in most cases regardless of the emission source, a study finds By Robin Lloyd

Public Health CDC Drops Some Outdoor Mask Advice for Vaccinated People, Based on This Science The agency's latest guidelines are in line with a wealth of evidence that COVID is far less likely to be transmitted outside than indoors By Tanya Lewis

Conservation See Stunning Collection of Portraits of Africa's Most Endangered Wildlife In his latest book, photographer Joachim Schmeisser gets up close and personal with the continent's wildest creatures By Leslie Nemo

Math For Math Fans: Some Puzzles from Game of Life Creator John Conway The great British mathematician passed away from COVID-19 last year. To celebrate his memory, here is a small sampling of the recreational mathematics he loved so well By Jean-Paul Delahaye

Medicine Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise--Now Come Tougher Trials Preliminary results suggest the vaccine is up to 77 percent effective in young children, but researchers await larger studies By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Public Health On Exploring Mars and Saving Endangered Species The act of going to the Red Planet gives us a new lens through which we can better understand and protect life's fragility By Christopher E. Mason

Physics Searching for the Universe's Most Energetic Particles, Astronomers Turn on the Radio New radio-based observatories could soon detect ultrahigh-energy neutrinos, opening a new window on extreme cosmic physics By Katrina Miller

EARTH Millions of Groundwater Wells Could Run Dry Overpumping, drought and climate change are lowering water tables worldwide By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Medicine Penicillin Wasn't Alexander Fleming's First Major Discovery It was lysozyme, an enzyme that attacks the cell walls of bacteria—and just as with the celebrated antibiotic, he found it through pure serendipity By Claudia Kalb

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FROM THE ARCHIVE One Small Step Back in Time: Relive the Wonder of Apollo 11 Half a century after the moon shot, we remember how we achieved the impossible—and why we need to do it again By Clara Moskowitz | June 2019

QUOTE OF THE DAY "It's one of the questions I get asked a million times, 'God, you got so close to the moon and you didn't land. Doesn't that really bug you?' It really does not. I honestly felt really privileged to be on Apollo 11, to have one of those three seats...Did I have the best of the three? No. But was I pleased with the one I had? Yes! And I have no feelings of frustration or rancor or whatever. I'm very, very happy about the whole thing." Michael Collins, NASA astronaut who was part of the crew on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing mission

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