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Gun Violence Is an Epidemic; Health Systems Must Step Up

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The rate of gun violence continues to rise across America. There was nearly a 30 percent increase in homicides between 2019 and 2020, making it the largest one-year increase in six decades. The number of gun deaths in 2021 climbed even higher and is approaching the previous peaks in gun death rates in the early … Read more

All systems go for Thursday rollout of NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission

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The rollout for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is right on track for this Thursday (March 17), agency officials said today (March 14).  In just a few days, NASA’s immense Crawler-Transporter 2 vehicle will carry the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion spacecraft on a 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) journey to Pad 39B at NASA’s … Read more

Not One, Not Two, But Three Planetary Systems Are Forming Around This Binary Star

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Astronomers have spied three whole systems of exoplanets being born around one binary star. SVS 13 is a binary star system 980 light-years away, and the complex structures of dust around it are shedding light on how planetary systems are born in these fascinating environments. Since a large proportion of stars is bound up in … Read more

A mystery in Jupiter’s atmosphere sheds light on solar system’s past

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Jupiter’s atmosphere has a strange composition, but it could be explained if the planet formed farther away from the sun than where it orbits today, a new study suggests.  Scientists have known since NASA’s Galileo mission in the 1990s that the atmosphere of the largest planet of the solar system contains heavier chemical elements, elements … Read more

Scientists Simulated 100,000 Different Futures. Which One We Get Depends Only on Us

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Most of us have at least one moment in our lives when we wish we’d made a different choice. It’s easy to recognize what went wrong in hindsight, but key factors that could have made all the difference at the time are often easily missed as we experience them.   Understanding those pivot points becomes … Read more

Physicists Claim They’ve Quantum Entangled a Tardigrade With a Qubit. But Have They?

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A team of physicists claims to have entangled a superconducting qubit and a tardigrade, moving the freezing, tiny, and well-controlled world of quantum into the “hot and wet” systems of life.   However, the results described in this preprint paper are not quite so cut and dried, and many quantum researchers are arguing that the … Read more