Being Denied an Abortion Has Lasting Impacts on Health and Finances

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May 03, 2022

Reproduction Being Denied an Abortion Has Lasting Impacts on Health and Finances A landmark study of women seeking abortions shows the harms of being unable to end an unwanted pregnancy By Mariana Lenharo

Climate Change Astonishing Heat Grips India and Pakistan Sustained temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit threaten people, wheat crops and power supplies By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Astronomy Costly SOFIA Telescope Faces Termination after Years of Problems NASA and the German space agency ground the telescope on a plane, citing the astronomy community's concerns over cost and productivity By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Vaccines Nose Spray Vaccines Could Quash COVID Virus Variants Three nasal spritzes, now in advanced trials, could trigger stronger immunity than shots in the arm By Marla Broadfoot

Engineering New Tech Conveys Emotional Touch Long-Distance Complex social information can be felt through a virtual touch By Richard Sima

Epidemiology Climate Change Will Boost Viral Outbreaks A modeling study is the first to project how global warming will increase animal encounters and virus swapping between species By Natasha Gilbert,Nature magazine

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Defense The Navy Extracted a Jet Fighter from 12,400 Feet below the Surface of the South China Sea But the U.S. must probe even further to catch up with China's access to the ocean's deepest reaches By Jason Sherman

Policy Cryptocurrencies and NFTs Are a Buyer Beware Market Scams and volatility plague this market, and the Biden administration is still trying to decide where the federal government fits in By The Editors

Water Coastal Cities Are Drinking Themselves Underwater Cities are sinking as they guzzle groundwater—and oil and gas—from below By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Lessons from before Abortion Was Legal Before 1973, abortion in the U.S. was severely restricted. More than 40 years later Roe v. Wade is under attack, and access increasingly depends on a woman's income or zip code By Rachel Benson Gold,Megan K. Donovan | September 2017

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We have solid scientific evidence showing that [Roe v. Wade] mattered to people's lives, and we know that abortion access matters to people's lives now. And that is where I think it's very important for science to come in and say, 'We have answers to these questions of fact.'" Caitlin Myers, professor of economics at Middlebury College

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