Scientific American - USA (2021-03)

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40 Scientific American, March 2021 In 2007 a network of automated telescopes observed a star about 433 light-years away in the c ...

March 2021, ScientificAmerican.com 41 NASA recede, and Earth’s crust flexed under the resulting tid- al force. The early crust d ...

42 Scientific American, March 2021 there [likely] are, maybe life on moons is even more com- mon than life on planets.” Exomoons ...

Illustration by Jen Christiansen March 2021, ScientificAmerican.com 43 In 2019 Phil Sutton of the University of Lincoln in Engla ...

44 Scientific American, March 2021 NASA, JPL-CALTECH AND SETI INSTITUTE the objects in question are hundreds of light-years away ...

March 2021, ScientificAmerican.com 45 planets farther away, they may be more likely to be moonless. “If we’re looking at planets ...

46 Scientific American, March 2021 Illustrations by Cat O’Neil PSYCHOLOGY The yearlong COVID crisis has taken a terrible mental ...

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48 Scientific American, March 2021 A my Nitza has speNt decades helpiNg people iN crisis. the director of the Institute for Disa ...

March 2021, ScientificAmerican.com 49 We can now glimpse, with the advent of vaccines, a time in the future when the pandemic sp ...

50 Scientific American, March 2021 about financial relief programs you might be eligible for. This kind of brainstorming require ...

March 2021, ScientificAmerican.com 51 helped others felt less distressed than those who coped in less healthy ways, such as by r ...

52 Scientific American, March 2021 WISDOM, a Laysan albatross first banded in 1956, is the oldest known wild bird in the world. ...

March 2021, ScientificAmerican.com 53 GREG JODER T he year was 1902. Paul Bartsch, a mollusk researcher at the smithsonian Insti ...

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