SpaceX Starlink Mega Constellation Faces Fresh Legal Challenge

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June 15, 2021

Space SpaceX Starlink Mega Constellation Faces Fresh Legal Challenge The company's ongoing launches of thousands of satellites for global high-speed Internet service may clash with preexisting environmental regulations By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Evolution Human Evolution Led to an Extreme Thirst for Water We are more dependent on water than many other mammals and have developed a host of clever strategies for obtaining it By Asher Y. Rosinger

Climate On the Louisiana Coast, an Indigenous Community Loses Homes to Erosion For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, climate change has forced a permanent retreat inland By Duy Linh Tu,Julian Lim

Natural Disasters Hurricane Damage Would Be Less with Stronger Building Codes Florida's codes rank high but Texas, Mississippi and Alabama's are low By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Mental Health Psychiatry Needs to Get Right with God By not making more of an effort to incorporate spirituality in treatment, we are doing a disservice to patients By David H. Rosmarin

Behavior & Society Marching to the Beat of the 17-Year Cicada Clock A visit to my hometown to see the legendary Brood X cicadas with my wife and one-year-old daughter changed my conception of time By Ross Kenneth Urken

Space Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Come in Two Distinct Flavors A trove of new detections suggests that the bursts could be the result of at least two separate astrophysical phenomena By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Biology Why Scientists Tweak Lab Viruses to Make Them More Contagious Some "gain of function" studies explore how a dangerous pathogen might cross species barriers to start an outbreak. They are not without controversy.  By Emily Willingham

Conservation Saving New York City's Last Wildernesses Added up, the natural areas in the five boroughs equal more than a dozen Central Parks By Sarah Charlop-Powers

Space How Human Space Launches Have Diversified A plethora of new countries and private companies are getting in on the quest to send people to orbit By Katie Peek

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 325, Issue 1

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FROM THE ARCHIVE The Risky Rush for Mega Constellations Some experts are alarmed by plans to launch tens of thousands of revolutionary telecommunications satellites in coming years By Jonathan O'Callaghan | October 2019

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Everyone agrees that we can tell that what's happening has an impact on the atmosphere, it has an impact on the night sky, and it has an impact on space." John Janka, chief officer of Viasat's global regulatory and government affairs

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