Brazil’s first homemade satellite will put an extra eye on dwindling Amazon forests
The long-awaited launch of Amazonia-1 is a major test for Brazilian science
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Kinky and absurd: The first AI-written play isn’t Shakespeare—but it has its moments
Artificial intelligence generates a story about a robot trying to understand humanity -
Graves of nearly 600 cats and dogs in ancient Egypt may be world’s oldest pet cemetery
Finds suggest Roman-era owners formed strong emotional bonds with their companion animals -
New, more inclusive journal policies ease author name changes on published papers
The shift will help researchers who change their names midcareer, including transgender scientists -
Dutch research funding agency, paralyzed by ransomware attack, refuses to pay up
Hackers seeking to extort Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research release confidential documents -
Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before
With a surge in InSAR data, researchers are monitoring slipping faults, flowing ice, inflating volcanoes, and sinking croplands -
Hungry teen dinosaurs crowded out their competitors
Study explains why ancient carnivores were tiny or huge, not medium-size -
Podcast: Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator
On this week’s show: InSAR satellites see centimeter-size changes in Earth’s surface, and generating random numbers with a laser on a chip -
This complex microbial warfare is taking place in a single drop of water
Hungry fungus recruits bacteria and their viruses to snag prey -
The first organism to use oxygen may have appeared surprisingly early
Genetic evidence suggests microbes began to use oxygen about 3.1 billion years ago, long before the precious gas was plentiful -
Male lyrebirds mimic mobbing flocks when having sex
Alarm call may trick females into thinking a predator is near -
Journals singled out for favoritism
Prolific researchers found to publish up to 40% of some journals’ content -
Bizarre, bloblike motion of microscopic creature may give clues to early animal movement
Choanoflagellates suggest the first animals could morph between swimming and crawling forms -
Chemists close in on greener way to make plastics
New chemical reactors don't require fossil fuels and may even consume greenhouse gas -
Remains of oldest American dog bolster idea that first humans arrived along the coast
Ancient DNA suggests people—and their dogs—migrated to the Americas more than 16,000 years ago -
After dramatic landing, Mars rover will probe ancient lake for clues to planet’s wet past
Rocks drilled from crater floor could reveal how wet Mars was—and for how long -
As trials ramp up, doctors stress need to vaccinate kids against COVID-19
Companies focus on safety, immune response to vaccines in children and teens -
California coronavirus strain may be more infectious—and lethal
But outside experts warn sample sizes are small and call for more data -
How fairy circles form in Shanghai’s salt marshes
Competition for nutrients drives these fleeting patterns -
Martian rover sends back ‘overwhelming’ video, audio from the Red Planet
Audio recording is the first ever to be taken on the surface of Mars -
Brain cell clusters, grown in lab for more than a year, mirror changes in a newborn’s brain
Organoids develop genetic signatures of postnatal brains, possibly broadening their use as disease models -
Rare cosmic neutrino traced to star-swallowing black hole
Detector frozen in Antarctic ice captures single particle from tidal disruption event -
U.S. National Science Foundation could get $600 million in pandemic relief bill
National Institute of Standards and Technology could get $150 million in massive package -
Road map to U.S. fusion power plant comes into clearer focus—sort of
National academies lay out to-do list to build multibillion-dollar plant by 2035 -
Humble dung beetles may be ideal DNA detectors for animal surveys
Other animals’ poop found in the beetles’ guts could reveal local biodiversity
