Abortion Rights Are Good Health and Good Science

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May 06, 2022

Reproduction Abortion Rights Are Good Health and Good Science The leaked Supreme Court draft opinion goes against science, safety and human dignity, and portends a dangerous post-Roe future By The Editors

Energy Rechargeable Molten Salt Battery Freezes Energy in Place for Long-Term Storage The technology could bring more renewable energy to the power grid By Anna Blaustein

Ethics Meet the White House's New Director of Environmental Justice Jalonne White-Newsome went from being a Dow Chemical devotee to a leading injustice advocate By Adam Aton,E&E News

Epidemiology Guns Now Kill More Children and Young Adults Than Car Crashes Firearms now exceed motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of injury-related death for people ages one to 24, a new analysis shows By Tanya Lewis

Planetary Science NASA Spacecraft Will Visit Apophis, Once Earth's Deadliest Asteroid Threat After delivering extraterrestrial samples to Earth in 2023, OSIRIS-REx will embark on an extended mission to a potentially planet-threatening space rock By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Natural Disasters New Drones Could Spot Wildfires Earlier, Even Help Snuff Them Out And other new technology could detect carbon monoxide emitted just when flames start By John Fialka,E&E News

Space Exploration Old Russian Rocket Motor Explodes in Orbit, Creating More Space Debris Ground stations are currently tracking sixteen fragments associated with the event, which occurred on April 15 By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Policy Science News Briefs from around the World: May 2022 In case you missed it By Joanna Thompson

FROM THE STORE Truth vs Lies How do we navigate the post-truth era, when there is no longer an expectation that politicians or pundits will be honest? In this eBook, we break down the science of deception so that we can protect ourselves against it. We look at human perception and how those perceptions are influenced using technology as well as provide interventions for combating bias and antiscience thinking.

FROM THE ARCHIVE Abortion Doesn't Have to Be an Either-Or Conversation Treating the decision with nuance and care is essential to reproductive justice By Amy Alspaugh,Linda S. Franck,Renée Mehra,Daniel Suárez-Baquero,Nikki Lanshaw,Toni Bond,Monica R. McLemore | December 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "If federal abortion rights in this country are about to be struck down, the Court will not only side against popular opinion on a crucial issue of bodily autonomy, but also signal that politics and religion play a more important role in health care than do science and evidence." The Editors, Scientific American

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