Astronomy
Going Back to the Moon, Researching Chickadee Hybrids and Understanding Addiction
This month’s issue covers the reasons it’s so hard to go back to the moon, the science of empathy and new advances in treating sickle cell disease
Cures for Sickle Cell Disease Arrive After a Painful Journey
Illuminating the experience of people living with sickle cell could improve patients’ lives and enhance all of medicine
Book Review: How One Weird Rodent Ecologist Tried to Change the Fate of Humanity
A biography of the scientist whose work led to fears of a ‘population bomb’
Hybrid Chickadees Reveal How Species Boundaries Can Shift and Blur
When different chickadee species meet, they sometimes choose each other as mates—with surprising results
October 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago
Best baseball batting order; mummies demystified
New Hope for Treating People with Sickle Cell Disease
Improving sickle cell care by expanding treatment options, advancing new therapies and amplifying the voices of people with the disease
New Treatments Address Addiction alongside Trauma
A new generation of treatments addresses the trauma that often underlies addiction
Book Review: A Bold Profile of the James Webb Space Telescope
In Pillars of Creation, Richard Panek gets up close to the JWST
People Living with Sickle Cell Disease Share Their Experiences
Life expectancy for people with sickle cell in the U.S. has increased to about 50 years, but some people with the disease still face stigma and other barriers in health care
Why Is It So Much Harder for NASA to Send People to the Moon Now Than It Was during the Apollo Era?
NASA's Artemis moon program faces challenges the Apollo missions never did
A Global Initiative to Advance Sickle Cell Research Could Benefit Millions
Increased funding and new public health policies for sickle cell research are needed to ease the burden on low-income nations and improve patient care
Researchers Seek New Solutions to Ease Sickle Cell’s Extreme Pain
Sickle cell disease causes severe pain that’s hard to treat, but researchers are finding new ways to offer relief
The Arctic Seed Vault Shows the Flawed Logic of Climate Adaptation
The difficulties of the Svalbard seed repository illustrate why we need to prevent climate disaster rather than plan for it
Book Review: Powerful Myths Shape a Postapocalyptic World
In a postapocalyptic world on the verge of its next crisis, history gets rewritten
Time to be inspired by planet Earth
Swatch has again teamed up with ESA to give space fans a new opportunity to design a custom watch featuring breathtaking images of Earth from space.
Two new satellites added to Galileo constellation for increased resilience
The European Galileo satellite navigation system keeps growing: a new pair of satellites has joined the constellation after a journey on a Falcon 9 rocket, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 18 September at 00:50 CEST (17 September 18:50 local time).