Quantum Astronomy Could Create Telescopes Hundreds of Kilometers Wide

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April 19, 2021

Physics Quantum Astronomy Could Create Telescopes Hundreds of Kilometers Wide Astronomers hope to use innovations from the subatomic world to construct breathtakingly large arrays of optical observatories By Anil Ananthaswamy

Space Liftoff! First Flight on Mars Launches New Way to Explore Worlds NASA's Ingenuity helicopter successfully hovered for 40 seconds in Mars's thin atmosphere By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Space See Ingenuity Team's Joy after the First Mars Helicopter Soars Scientists and engineers react with elation to the historic interplanetary flight By Lee Billings

Behavior & Society The Deadly Consequences of Hypersexualizing Asian Women A long history of racism and misogyny set the stage for recent violence, including a murderous "bad day" in Atlanta By Janet Fang

Environment What's Really in Your Water? Rapid at-home tests for contaminants are on the way By Sera Young,Julius Lucks

Climate Therapists Are Reckoning with Eco-anxiety With no training, counselors feel unequipped to handle the growing number of people anxious about the climate emergency By Isobel Whitcomb,Gizmodo

Public Health The Race to Curb the Spread of COVID Vaccine Disinformation Researchers are applying strategies honed during the 2020 US presidential election to track anti-vax propaganda By Jeff Tollefson,Nature magazine

Climate X-Prize Winners Use CO2 Emissions to Make Concrete But questions remain about how much greenhouse gases would actually be reduced By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Climate For Americans' Health, a Dollar of Carbon Emissions Prevented Is Worth a Ton of Cure Increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are taking an enormous toll on the human body—and the situation is getting worse By Timothy G. Singer,Frances C. Moore

Public Health The Fast Lane for COVID Testing Has Opened Up in the U.S. Recently approved rapid antigen tests are likely to help mitigate the chain of transmission and put the U.S. on par with other countries that have them By Carolyn Barber

Climate Insurers Struggle to Forecast Near-Term Risks in a Shifting Climate After a record-setting year for hurricanes and wildfires, the insurance industry is grappling with the role of our climate emergency in estimating local disaster damages By Stephanie Pappas

FROM THE STORE Ask the Experts: Astronomy This second eBook in our Ask the Experts series – Astronomy – looks skyward and explains a variety of universal phenomena and theories. Questions on stars, planets, asteroids, galaxies, black holes, space exploration and more are answered in this collection.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE First View of Mars Was a Paint-by-Numbers We've come a long way since NASA's Mariner 4  By Jen Christiansen | November 2014

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet." MiMi Aung, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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