Spy Satellites Confirmed Our Discovery of the First Meteor from beyond the Solar System

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April 12, 2022

Space Exploration

Spy Satellites Confirmed Our Discovery of the First Meteor from beyond the Solar System

A high-speed fireball that struck Earth in 2014 looked to be interstellar in origin, but verifying this extraordinary claim required extraordinary cooperation from secretive defense programs

By Amir Siraj

Endangered Species

Roadkill Literally 'Drives' Some Species to Extinction

Citizen scientists have stepped up to reveal just how much fauna is flattened on the world's roads

By Menno Schilthuizen

Computing

Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast

In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it.

By Katie Hafner,The Lost Women of Science Initiative | 04:33

Space Exploration

SpaceX's Starship and NASA's SLS Could Supercharge Space Science

Scientists are beginning to dream of how a new generation of super-heavy-lift rockets might enable revolutionary space telescopes and bigger, bolder interplanetary missions

By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Climate Change

Climate Litigation Boosted by IPCC Report

The report says lawsuits filed against governments and fossil fuel companies have the potential to influence climate policy

By Lesley Clark,E&E News
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