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NASA Loses Signal from Critical Mars Orbiter

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft didn’t phone home as expected on December 6
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-loses-signal-from-critical-mars-orbiter/

10.12.2025

#Mars #Marsorbiter #MAVEN #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight

SciAm usually does a good job explaining things but this is just so exceptionally well done I feel a need to boost it. #SciAm #fusionpower #greenenergy

How Three Fusion Reactor Desig...

SciAm usually does a good job explaining things but this is just so exceptionally well done I feel a need to boost it. #SciAm #fusionpower #greenenergy

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-three-fusion-reactor-designs-could-power-tomorrow/

See #Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science in These Handy Charts

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-vaccine-recommendations-backed-by-science-in-these-handy-charts/

Because Bobby Brainworms is okay with you getting sick and/or dying of preventable diseases and has gutted US vaccine recommendations.

#RFKjr #CDC #WHO #SciAm

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Are We Ready for Death in Space?

NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability now, as more people start traveling off the planet
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-nasa-ready-for-death-in-space/

3.6.2025

#death #HRCU #ISS #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight #Tod

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We’re Not Going to Mars Anytime Soon—Despite What Musk Says

.. Musk and ..Trump have announced ambitious plans to send a mission to Mars in 2026 and 2028. It’s not going to happen
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"..up to trillions of $. .. real aim—to funnel enormous sums of money away from researchers at NASA + its partners + into his privately-held company w/o having to answer to shareholders or deliver on promised schedules."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-wants-to-go-to-mars-thats-not-happening/

20.5.2025

#Mars #Musk #NASA #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #USA

Je publie ça pour le retrouver plus facilement. Tiré de "The New Science of Sex and Gender" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-science-of-sex-and-gender/ (paywalled)

#sexBiology #biologicalSex #SciAm #intersex #transPeople

illustration by the Scientific American showing how biological sex is a SPECTRUM.

Scientific American Loses Its Bold Leader

"Trump spews insults and wins the election. Helmuth loses her job. Critics of cancel culture cheered Helmuth’s cancellation."

Excellent analysis on politics, journalism, and science in the wake of SciAm editor Laura Helmuth stepping down.

https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/scientific-american-loses-its-bold-leader

#Journalism #Science #SciAm #Politics

#SciAm

Hey, I took the quiz, you should too:

I just scored 6/6 on @sciam's Science Quiz! Try it yourself : https://www.scientificamerican.com/game/science-quiz-spooky-lakes-forbidden-colors-2024-11-01/?id=1f126872&set=scientificamerican-science-quiz&puzzleType=quiz

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I read that an author in the Scientific American had written a book called “A little man who wasn‘t there” - that I’m sure is a reference to a poem I learned (and loved) in my teens:

I saw a little man upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Gee, I wish he’d go away

#SciAm

"What characterizes the bullshitter, [the late American philosopher Harry] Frankfurt said, is that they just don’t care whether what they say is true. ChatGPT and its peers cannot care, and they are instead, in a technical sense, bullshit machines."
#llm #chatGPT #sciam #scientificAmerican https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-isnt-hallucinating-its-bullshitting/

Fab #sciam story on space junk and what to do if it falls on your land. "SpaceX has provisional permission..to launch.. 42,000 Starlink satellites. Assuming each one.. lasts 5 years.. SpaceX will be [de-orbiting] burning up ~1 satellite per hour."😮 🔭🛰️🧪 📖: www.scientificamerican.com/article/spac...

Three different views of debris from a SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle. This section of the Crew Dragon’s trunk fell on Barry Sawchuk’s farmland in Saskatchewan on February 26, 2024, and is but one of several large pieces discovered from the uncontrolled reentry event. Samantha Lawler From https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/

Read astronomy professor @sundogplanets Sam Lawler's first-hand account of her close-encounter with space junk:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/

#astronomy #spacejunk #kesslersyndrome #scientificamerican #sciam

Are you conscious or meta-conscious? An interesting article in #ScientificAmerican.

#SciAm #philosophy #psychology #mind @SciAm

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/consciousness-goes-deeper-than-you-think

Great new article on the coming of the #electric #AirTaxi ! #Joby_Aviation still the leader in the field.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electric-aircraft-are-quietly-sneaking-up-on-us/

#sustainability #environment #RenewableEnergies #SciAm

I've just realised that I read my first edition of Scientific American in May 1984, just over 40 years ago. A couple of months later, I set up a regular subscription (a standing order in WH Smiths, back then). I'm still reading it, and I still have almost all of the intervening issues.

#SciAm #ScientificAmerican @scientificamerican_rss_bot