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November 04, 2022

Epidemiology RSV Is Surging: What We Know about This Common and Surprisingly Dangerous Virus Your questions answered about what RSV is, how it spreads, what vaccines are on the way and who is most at risk By Tara Haelle

Planetary Science NASA Asteroid Threat Practice Drill Shows We're Not Ready A trial of how government, NASA and local officials would deal with a space rock headed toward Earth revealed gaps in the plans By Matt Brady

Politics On Election Day, Vote for Candidates with Science-Based Policies, Not Politicians Who Ignore Evidence Some office seekers have positions based on research and facts, whereas others stand on assumptions and bias By The Editors

Sponsor Content Provided by UAE USA United UAE and US partner to launch historic moon mission this month The first Arab mission to the moon is happening this month. Through UAE-US collaboration, the Emirates Lunar Mission will launch the Rashid Rover on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center this month. Discover more.

Climate Change What Scientists Are Watching at the COP27 Climate Summit At the COP 27 climate summit, countries will grapple with how to pay for loss and damage from global warming and how to bolster pledges to cut emissions By Jeff Tollefson,Nature magazine

Climate Change Five Tensions That Could Derail the COP 27 Climate Summit Set against a backdrop of severe weather disasters, the COP 27 climate summit is colliding with soaring energy costs, food insecurity and a looming recession By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Archaeology King Tut Mysteries Endure 100 Years After Discovery A century after archaeologist Howard Carter's momentous discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, questions and controversy still swirl around Egypt's most famous king By Zach Zorich

Weather Better Atmospheric River Forecasts Are Giving Emergency Planners More Time to Prepare for Flooding Knowing when torrents of rain will strike can save property and lives By F. Martin Ralph

Privacy What You Need to Know About Iran's Surveillance Tech Scientific American tech editor Sophie Bushwick explains how Iran is using surveillance tech against vulnerable citizens.  [The above text is a transcript of this podcast.] By Sophie Bushwick,Tulika Bose | 05:42

Climate Change The World Isn't Adapting to Climate Change Quickly Enough, U.N. Says Climate adaptation—and funding to support it—will be a major focus of the COP 27 climate meeting set to start on Sunday in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Space Exploration China's Space Station Is Almost Complete--How Will Scientists Use It? China's Tiangong orbital outpost will host more than 1,000 experiments, some of which will augment results from the International Space Station By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Climate Change The Middle East Is Going Green while Supplying Oil to Others Middle Eastern governments are ramping up their green ambitions ahead of the COP27 climate summit but show few signs of reining in fossil-fuel exports By Elizabeth Gibney,Nature magazine

Astronomy NASA Is Studying a Private Mission to Boost Hubble's Orbit. Is It Worth the Risk? SpaceX and the entrepreneur Jared Isaacman are pursuing a plan to rescue the iconic Hubble Space Telescope from a fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere By Irene Klotz

Climate Change More African-Led Research on Adaptation Will Help the Continent Survive Climate Change Learning how to adapt to global warming will save lives and economies, yet most of the funding for climate change in Africa goes to outside research on mitigation By Edna Odhiambo

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