Guns Now Kill More Children and Young Adults Than Car Crashes

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May 05, 2022

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

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

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

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

Reproduction New Prenatal Genetic Screens Pose Underappreciated Ethical Dilemmas Noninvasive screens that look for abnormal fetal genomes often reveal hard-to-interpret results, raising challenging questions about selective abortion and eugenics By Daniel Navon

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

Reproduction What the Supreme Court Should Know about Abortion Care It's an uncomfortable topic for some people, but it's a safe and critically important part of health care that needs to be protected By Cara C. Heuser

Astronomy A Galaxy Is Unmasked as a Pulsar — the Brightest outside the Milky Way Using a technique to block certain wavelengths of light, researchers hope to discover many more hidden pulsars By Jacinta Bowler,Nature magazine

Psychology Can't Buy Me Luck: The Role of Serendipity in the Beatles' Success The right combination of variables is needed to achieve a blazing success—one explanation for why there was never a "Kinksmania" By Lydia Denworth

Cosmology Canadian Telescope Delivers Deepest-Ever Radio View of Cosmic Web Data from the CHIME radio observatory are a milestone in the quest to discover the hidden origins of universal structure By Ben Brubaker

Artificial Intelligence How Language-Generation AIs Could Transform Science An expert in emerging technologies warns that software designed to summarize, translate and write like humans might exacerbate distrust in science By Richard Van Noorden,Nature magazine

FROM THE STORE Evolution 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don't hold up

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase More oversight of dealers and investment in impoverished communities are key to reducing violence, experts say By Jim Daley | November 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "There is robust funding for motor vehicle related research and interventions...we have just begun to see federal funding for firearm research after 25 years of nearly no funding." Lois Lee, senior associate in medicine at Boston Children's Hospital

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