NASA's DART Mission Could Help Cancel an Asteroid Apocalypse

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November 19, 2021

Planetary Science NASA's DART Mission Could Help Cancel an Asteroid Apocalypse Our planet is vulnerable to thousands of "city-killer" space rocks. If—when—one is found on a collision course with Earth, will we be ready to deflect it? By Robin George Andrews

Biotech Gel-Based Sensor Continuously Monitors Wounds for Infection The device can sit beneath a bandage and send infection alerts directly to a smartphone By Sophie Bushwick

Vaccines COVID Quickly, Episode 19: Mandate Roadblocks, Boosters for All, and Sickness in the Zoo Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 09:08

Ecology Newfound Ocean Hotspot Draws Millions of Migrating Birds Each Year Scientists hope to protect these critical international waters By Rebecca Dzombak

Fitness Texting Thumb, Trigger Finger, Gamer's Thumb and Other Smartphone Injuries What causes them and how to protect yourself  By Carolyn Barber

Climate Change Fearing Liability, U.S. Resists U.N. Fund for Climate Damages The relucatance reflects long-standing concerns over climate-related litigation By Jean Chemnick,E&E News

Climate Change Watch These 5 Key Issues in 2022 to See if COP26 Climate Promises Are Kept Increasing financial commitments and strengthening emissions reduction targets are crucial steps By Rachel Kyte,The Conversation US

Diet The Weight Game: How Body-Size Bias Can Hold Back Health Science For decades, assumptions about weight have clouded our view of health By Kelso Harper

Cancer The Colon Cancer Conundrum Colorectal cancer rates in younger adults are climbing. The race is on to figure out why By Cassandra Willyard

Animals Mystery of Doomed Sardine Migration Is Finally Solved Pulses of cold seawater mislead millions of sardines into swimming along the South African coast to their death By Nikk Ogasa

Reproduction California Plans for a Post-Roe World as Abortion Access Shrinks Elsewhere Abortion providers are preparing for a surge in demand from other states if the Supreme Court overturns the landmark ruling By Rachel Bluth,Kaiser Health News

Cancer The COVID Cancer Effect Oncologists are grappling with predicting—and mitigating—the effects of the pandemic By Usha Lee McFarling

Inequality Lost Women of Science, Episode 3: The Case of the Missing Portrait A missing portrait of physician and pathologist Dorothy Andersen takes us on a journey into the perils of memorialization—and who gets to be remembered. Pediatric intensivist Scott Baird hunts for the portrait, and psychiatry resident Nientara Anderson and emergency medicine resident Lizzy Fitzsousa, both former medical students at Yale University, explain how, in today's diverse communities, "dude walls" can have an insidious effect on those who walk past them every day By Katie Hafner,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 325, Issue 6

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Why an Asteroid Strike Is like a Pandemic Both are low-probability but catastrophic events—and both can be mitigated if we act early enough By Casey Dreier | July 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "If it's one less thing that anxious people have to worry about when they're trying to sleep, I think that's worth it...It's one less piece of existential dread." Andy Rivkin, a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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