May-June 2024
Volume: 112 Number: 3
A European Space Agency rocket launch in 2013 carried three satellites to orbit. Now, launches can carry dozens of small satellites at a time, quickly growing the population of devices in Earth’s orbit, which in turn increases the potential for collisions. In “Do You Know Where Your Satellite Is Tonight?," David Finkleman describes networks of ground-based observation stations, as well as data modeling techniques, that are used to try to keep track of everything in orbit around Earth and predict collisions. Finkleman also lays out why these networks and models are incomplete and their resulting collision estimates are thus largely inaccurate, and explains ways that data could be made more precise to protect valuable satellites in the future. (Cover image courtesy of ESA.)
In This Issue
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March-April 2024
Volume: 112 Number: 2
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"Deconstructing DNA Beyond the Helix" by Caryn Babaian
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"When Sharks Eat an Angler’s Haul" by David Shiffman
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"Gas Dynamics of Solar and Stellar Winds " by Bhimsen Shivamoggi
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January-February 2024
Volume: 112 Number: 1
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"Ancient DNA" by Daniel T. Ksepka
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"How People Decide to Trust in Science" by Larry Au, Cristian Capotescu, Gil Eyal, and Sophia Sharp
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"Sustainability Simplified" by Stephen Porder
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November-December 2023
Volume: 111 Number: 6
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"“Seeing” into Opaque Materials with Light and Sound " by David M. Pepper and Todd W. Murray
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"Memories Within Myth" by Patrick Nunn
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"Beautiful Armor " by Andreia Salvador
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September-October 2023
Volume: 111 Number: 5
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"Genomic Prediction in the Big Data Era " by Gustavo de los Campos and Daniel Gianola
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"Medical Imaging in Increasing Dimensions" by Ge Wang
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"Time Is an Object" by Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
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July-August 2023
Volume: 111 Number: 4
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"Bias Optimizers," by Damien Patrick Williams
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"Building Better Growth Curves," by William E. Bennett, Jr
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"A Frozen Window to the Universe," by Carlos A. Arguelles Delgado
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"On the Hunt for Another Earth," by Abel Mendez
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May-June 2023
Volume: 111 Number: 3
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"Relativity and the World of Molecules," by Abhik Ghosh and Kenneth Ruud
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"The Math of Beach Pebble Formation," by Theodore P. Hill and Kent E. Morrison
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"Pyrocene Park," by Stephen Pyne
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March-April 2023
Volume: 111 Number: 2
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"A Chemist’s Guide to 3D-Printed Cuisine," by Matthew R. Hartings
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"The Inevitably Incomplete Storyof Human Evolution," by Bernard Wood and Alexis Uluutku
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"Unearthly Beauty," by Jim Bell
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January-February 2023
Volume: 111 Number: 1
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"Is Garlic Mustard an Invader or an Opportunist?" by Michael Anderson
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"In Models We Trust—But First, Validate," by Daniel Solow
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"A Deep Dive into Innovation," by Edward A. Wasserman
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November-December 2022
Volume: 110 Number: 6
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"Ukrainian Scientists and Educators in Wartime," by Olha V. Harmatiy
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"The Art of Turbulence," by Zellman Warhaft
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"A Mathematician Vanishes," by Daniel S. Silver
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September-October 2022
Volume: 110 Number: 5
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"The History of Vaccine Uptake in Taiwan," by HungYin Tsai
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"The Art and Science of Manipulative Language," by Viviana Masia
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"Performing Power," by Lee Alan Dugatkin
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