Your Top Science Stories This Week
Dear Reader,
Have you ever thought about NASA fashion? Me neither. But if you imagine Mission Control at the time of the Apollo 11 landing, which happened 50 years ago this week, it's a single visual statement: white shirt, narrow dark tie, crew cut. And the spacesuits? The spacesuits are as widely known as Twiggy's miniskirt, and have inspired untold varieties of party costumes, not to mention generations of future astronauts. Chloe Veltman's story roams the history and future of this iconic spacesuit. KQED water and energy reporter Lauren Sommer has another chapter this week in the investigative story about the future of California water. She received a leaked email that told us the team of federal biologists writing the final rules on how to supply water for two-thirds of Californians and millions of acres of farmland had been replaced with a new team, just before the final rules were released publicly. This team has the final say on the state's water rules. And if they determine the Trump Administration's plan would jeopardize endangered salmon, the biologists writing the rules are required to make changes to ensure that doesn't happen. Lauren's story tells you what's happening now and what it means in a state where water issues are always central to the environment and the economy. | | |
Kat Snow
Senior Editor, Science
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| | | New research suggests that climate change is the key driver of a five-fold increase in the amount of land burned annually in California. | | |
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| | | Researchers say millions more people in California alone can expect at least a month of extreme heat days every year. Find out the predictions for your area, and for other states. | | |
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| | | You asked our reporters covering California wildfires anything. Here's how they answered. | | |
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| | | A video posted by the National Park Service shows violent shaking underwater at Devils Hole in Death Valley. | | |
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| | | Despite a deadline from President Trump, the water rules have been delayed two months so a new group of lawyers and biologists can step in. | | |
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| | | Lead paint was banned for residential use in 1978, but it remains in millions of homes in California and is the leading cause of childhood lead poisoning statewide, said the San Francisco City Attorney's Office. | | |
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| | | "Without that suit, Neil Armstrong could not have made that 'one small step for man' and stepped down out of the lunar module," said Cathleen Lewis, curator of International Space Programs and Spacesuits at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. | | |
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