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Tracy Staedter

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Things Fall Apart

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By Andy Bochman, Tracy Staedter
| Security Management (US)
A Heat Dome Hits Virginia: Things Fall Apart In the catastrophic wake of 2025’s fictional Heat Dome Calcifer, six influential people—three senior U.S. government officials and three industry executives—have gathered in a Washington, D.C., speakeasy during a blizzard to discuss the future of reliability regulation for the data center industry. When one of the members arrives late, the already tense atmosphere boils over.
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A Heat Dome Hits Virginia: The Initial U.S. Government Report

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By Andy Bochman, Tracy Staedter
| Security Management (US)
A Heat Dome Hits Virginia: The Initial U.S. Government Report Editor's Note: Below is part-two of a fictional account of a meteorological event, a “heat dome,” descending in the summer of 2025 on a part of the United States near the town of Ashburn, Virginia. Ripple effects continue after more than 45 data centers in northern Virginia experienced partial or complete failure under the stress of last July’s heat dome, Calcifer.
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Due north

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By Tracy Staedter
| marquette.edu
After studying dentistry 3,000 miles from home, Zazell Staheli Cummings kept her vow and returned to provide care to her Arctic community. By Tracy Staedter When Zazell Staheli Cummings, D.D.S., Dent ’16, entered the dental exam room in the Maniilaq Health Center in Kotzebue, Alaska, she could see that her next patient was tense. The elderly Iñupiaq woman scanned Cummings, who stood in dental scrubs and wore glasses called loupes.
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Pay-What-You-Can Produce Market Opens in Uptown — UPTOWN CROSSING

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By Tracy Staedter
| uptowncrossing.com
Uptown Crossing has a new produce market. On January 6, Washington Heights resident Gina Nygro opened Greater Good(s) MKE, the neighborhood’s first pay-what-you-can market for fruits and vegetables. She says she was inspired both by her great grandmother, who opened a similar grocery store during the Great Depression, and by Tricklebee Cafe, located at 4424 W North Ave, which is a pay-what-you-can community cafe.
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A new film with a dead star? Thanks to CGI and deepfake technology, it’s possible

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By Schuyler Velasco , Erick Trickey , Tracy Staedter
| expmag.com
Tech + Life James Dean 2.0 may be coming to a theater near you By Stav Dimitropoulos In September 1955, after starring in Rebel Without a Cause and only two other films, iconic Hollywood actor James Dean died in a car crash at age 24. Now, 65 years later, a fourth Dean film is on the way, featuring a computer-generated image that, in theory, will look like and sound exactly like the long-lost star — an eternal rebel, locked in eternal youth.
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Learn the new language of art

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By Schuyler Velasco , Erick Trickey , Tracy Staedter, Tony Rehagen 
| expmag.com
Tech + Life A glossary of new terms and technologies you'll find reading the Experience ‘Art’ stories By Schuyler Velasco Art innovates, breaks rules, and prompts us to see the world differently. As our fall stories about the future of art show, artists can shift paradigms not just by creating revolutionary new artworks, but also by changing the tools they use to create and share art. A car outfitted with artificial intelligence can write a novel (not a great one, but a novel nonetheless).
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The Experience Playlist: Art

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By Erick Trickey , Tracy Staedter, Tony Rehagen , Lian Parsons 
| expmag.com
Tech + Life A Spotify playlist of songs about art and artists — from Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Lou Reed & John Cale, Eartha Kitt, and more. By Erick Trickey To create the soundtrack for our stories about the evolution of art, we turned mostly to songs inspired by visual artists, from Pablo Picasso to René Magritte to Frida Kahlo. Lady Gaga not only name-checked the artist Jeff Koons in a song on her album Artpop, she convinced Koons to design the album’s cover art. We’ve included the title track here.
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She strings sculptures from the sky

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By Tracy Staedter, Erick Trickey , Tony Rehagen , Lian Parsons 
| expmag.com
Tech + Life Janet Echelman collaborates with architects, software developers, and aeronautical engineers to build her technological marvels. By Tracy Staedter Janet Echelman couldn’t sleep. The Boston-based artist, known for her enormous aerial net sculptures, was in the early stages of planning her next installation, a private commission for the 1 Hotel West Hollywood, then under construction on California’s famous Sunset Strip.
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Upgraded Radio Frequency Switch to Push Communications into the Future

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By Tracy Staedter
| Northrop Grumman
By Tracy Staedter What do smartphones, satellites, GPS and radar have in common? They all rely on radio waves to send and receive information. Radio frequency devices with miniaturized computer chips and other microelectronics inside have greatly improved their performance and cost. But a meaningful upgrade to the component responsible for guiding and shaping the radio signal, called a radio frequency switch, has lagged for decades. Until now.
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White Hat Hackers on the Trail of Cybercriminals

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By Tracy Staedter
| Northrop Grumman
It’s common knowledge today that anyone who gains unauthorized access to data in a computer system is called a hacker. But not all hackers are equal. In the world of cybersecurity, computer criminals are called black hat hackers and those who break into systems to expose vulnerabilities that need to be fixed are known as white hat hackers. The terms are a nod to old-time Western movies, in which the villains wore black hats and the good guys wore white, explains Norton.
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To capture more carbon, a cornstalk needs a friend

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By Marcello Rossi , Tracy Staedter, Tony Rehagen 
| expmag.com
Big Idea Paying farmers to fight climate change with regenerative agriculture By Marcello Rossi To avoid a climate catastrophe and keep the world’s temperature from rising by more than two degrees Celsius, experts say, it’s not enough to just cut pollution. We’ll also have to pull some carbon emissions from the atmosphere. But how? One idea gaining traction is paying farmers to use regenerative practices to store carbon in the soil.
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Floating cows and manure robots: A dairy farm on the sea

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By Tracy Staedter, Heather Kapplow, Schuyler Velasco , John Fox
| expmag.com
Cheese may seem an unlikely factor in maritime greatness. But in the late 1500s, fleets from The Netherlands took to the seas to explore India, Africa, and Indonesia, stockpiled with leidse kaas, which means “cheese from Leiden,” in South Holland. The cheese was made from the milk of the blaarkop cow, also known as the blister head, a medium-sized breed with a square white face and black or red patches around its eyes.
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My baby’s failed dalliance with the Merlin Magic Sleep Suit

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By Schuyler Velasco , Veronique Greenwood , Tracy Staedter, Cecilia Menchetti
| expmag.com
Tech + Life How a product goes viral — and the existential crises that ensue. By Schuyler Velasco “Welcome to your new life!” my friend Allison texted me. I had just procured a Baby Merlin’s Magic Sleep Suit — a puffy little straitjacket for babies between three and six months old. Allison was a committed disciple; the first time she had used it, her four-month-old daughter had slept 13 hours straight. The suit cost $40; I would have paid $4,000.
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An ‘artificial womb’ could be a lifeline for premature babies

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By Schuyler Velasco , Tracy Staedter
| expmag.com
Big Idea Scientists are testing a middle phase between gestation and birth, but a human prototype is years away By Stav Dimitropoulos In 1923, the eccentric English biologist J.B.S. Haldane coined the term “ectogenesis,” meaning the artificial conception and complete gestation of a fetus outside of its mother’s body — which would free women from pregnancy. Though Haldane’s vision remains a sci-fi concept, scientists in several countries have concluded that part of his idea may soon be possible.
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Can You Really Become a Mars Land Owner?

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By Tracy Staedter
| Northrop Grumman
On Nov. 26, 2018, NASA’s InSight lander touched down on Mars, becoming the eighth space-exploring robot to visit the Red Planet. For adventurous humans inspired to eventually follow in the footsteps of this spacecraft, becoming a Mars land owner may seem like the next best thing.
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Using data to count the days: the surprising ways we’re quantifying quarantine

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By Schuyler Velasco , Glenn McDonald, Tracy Staedter, Eric Niiler 
| expmag.com
Tech + Life Stickers, bread, cats, and other data visualization tools By Schuyler Velasco One of the many things COVID-19 has upended is our sense of time. The extended stay at home in social isolation has stripped the days, weeks, and possibly months of their usual rhythms. Is it Friday yet? Saturday? July? If you feel like it’s all blending together, you’re not alone.
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These microscopic allies could help in the coronavirus fight

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By Glenn McDonald, Tracy Staedter, Eric Niiler 
| expmag.com
Tech + Life ‘Good microbes’ and other tools to battle Covid-19 from the inside out By Glenn McDonald The pandemic of 2020 is a worldwide battle, but it will be decided in the microbial realm, through processes invisible to the naked eye. So, in the words of Steve Martin, let’s get small — and get to know some of humanity’s microscopic allies against the novel coronavirus. Not all viruses are bad Viruses are generally trouble.
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A vaccine that could spread like a virus

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By Tracy Staedter, Glenn McDonald, Eric Niiler 
| expmag.com
Big Idea Researchers hope to prevent the next pandemic by stopping diseases in animals By Tracy Staedter Most infectious diseases that have emerged to afflict humans in the last decade have come from animals. Ebola and the new coronavirus likely originated in bats. Developing vaccines to protect humans from these pathogens can take years and cost billions of dollars. Why wait for an epidemic?
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Ebola could become a new weapon against brain cancer

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By Tony Rehagen , Glenn McDonald, Tracy Staedter
| expmag.com
Big Idea Scientists want to fight a deadly cancer with part of the deadly virus from a past epidemic By Stav Dimitropoulos In the late 1800s, doctors began to notice that some cancer patients went into temporary remission after catching viruses. This was the first discovery of “oncolytic viruses,” which can attack cancer cells and reproduce inside them without harming healthy cells. These viruses take advantage of the fact that cancer cells lack a natural immune response.
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I’ve updated my disaster bag. Look inside.

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By Alix Strauss , John Fox, Matt Crossman, Tracy Staedter
| expmag.com
Exploration After a lifetime of over-preparedness, I’m helping my friends cope — and stock up. By Alix Strauss My chic daily handbag usually contains items I consider essential for the life of a freelance reporter in New York: a curated makeup bag, a notebook, a black Sharpie, a yellow highlighter. I carry, gum, reading glasses, a phone and charger, headphones, and a handful of Tootsie Rolls. (I have a sweet tooth.) Today, my essential bag has changed its composition.
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Thanks to 3D printing, the future of toys is faster and cheaper

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By Glenn McDonald, Tracy Staedter, Eric Niiler , Schuyler Velasco 
| expmag.com
Big Idea Soon you could be making Baby Yoda figurines at home By Glenn McDonald Any parent of young children can tell you: There is nothing more astonishing — more compelling, more exhilarating — than stepping barefoot on a little plastic toy. It’s a profound experience, the kind that inspires curse words of superior potency and elegance. Good news: parents no longer have pay for this privilege by purchasing overpriced plastic toys at the big-box store.
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The solution to gas-guzzling trucks is in the air

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By Tracy Staedter, Eric Niiler , Schuyler Velasco 
| expmag.com
Big Idea Batteries alone can't power big rigs. How about an electric road? By Tracy Staedter Big rigs are big polluters. With 21 million operating globally, heavy-duty trucks account for about a third of all carbon emissions from the transportation sector. If left unchecked, emissions from semi-trucks could more than double by 2050.
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How do you hold a climate-friendly conference? Log in.

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By Schuyler Velasco , Tracy Staedter
| expmag.com
Future Of Air travel is a huge source of carbon emissions — and part of the job in academia. Does it have to be? By Schuyler Velasco Stephen Allen hasn’t taken a flight for work since 2006. The management lecturer at the University of Sheffield studies ways that large organizations can operate more sustainably. And he decided early in his career that he needed to embody what his research recommends. “I’ve taken a fairly draconian approach,” Allen says.
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These scientists want to make real cheese without the cow

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By Jim Sullivan , Schuyler Velasco , Tracy Staedter
| expmag.com
Tech + Life Microscopic organisms that grow protein could lead to new, Earth-friendly substitutes for dairy foods By Jim Sullivan You’re an adult now. But sometimes you think like the teenager you once were. At this moment, you’re in a restaurant craving a juicy burger and maybe some fries — if they’re not cooked in animal fat. You’ve learned that raising livestock exacts a severe environmental toll.
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Eliminating Plastic Bags Opens Up New Alternatives to Packaging

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By Tracy Staedter
| Northrop Grumman
For those who live on Easter Island, a remote Chilean territory in the South Pacific Ocean, eliminating plastic bags and other plastic waste has reached critical levels. Although the island is more than 1,200 miles from its nearest neighbor, plastic litters its shores. The pollution comes in from a swirling mass of garbage that floats far offshore and is one-and-half times the size of Texas, reports PBS. It’s not just in the ocean, either.
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This army of scuba divers plans to measure climate change

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By Schuyler Velasco , Tracy Staedter
| expmag.com
Tech + Life Pierre-Yves Cousteau, son of famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, is looking for data in places ships and buoys can’t reach By Stav Dimitropoulos Earlier this century, some marine biologists, realizing their knowledge of ocean conditions in the most remote parts of the planet was limited, enlisted an unwitting set of partners: Antarctic seals.
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Arctic sea ice is melting. These researchers want to re-freeze it.

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By Eric Niiler , Schuyler Velasco , Tracy Staedter
| expmag.com
Big Idea Could a common commercial product help slow climate change? By Eric Niiler The climate crisis has forced scientists and engineers to think about big ideas to reduce and reverse greenhouse gas emissions — or buy Earth some time until we figure out how. Enter geoengineering, the study of dramatic, planet-scale climate initiatives. Some of the ideas that have been proposed sound like distant science fiction. But some are already being tested. Here’s a closer look at one potential project.
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The universe is expanding faster than we expected. This astronomy project aims to find out why.

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By Matt Crossman, Tracy Staedter
| expmag.com
Exploration A hilltop telescope in Texas is charting two million galaxies — and trying to figure out if one number explains everything. By Matt Crossman The Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the world’s third largest, sits high atop a hill in rural southwest Texas, one of the darkest places in America, all the better for stargazing. To get there, visitors follow Highway 118 to Dark Sky Drive — a winding, twisty road that leads up, up, left, right, until it arrives at the visitors’ center.
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Stargazers fight to save the dazzling dark

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By Tracy Staedter, Matt Crossman, Glenn McDonald
| expmag.com
Exploration Inside the fight for a clear view of the galaxy By Tracy Staedter I want to show you something — a remarkable view you cannot see until long after sunset, unless you stand in the vast middle of nowhere, without your phone or your Netflix series or your irrational fears of the wilderness just beyond the edge of your flashlight’s beam. Turn off the light.
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Wearable Healthcare Technology Is Advancing Precision Medicine

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By Tracy Staedter
| Northrop Grumman
In the United States, annual healthcare waste — from failure of care delivery to overtreatment — ranged from $760 to $935 billion, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. But wearable healthcare technology is poised to overturn these trends. New laws that allow doctors to embrace innovations in wearable diagnostic and assistive devices could help usher in a new era precision medicine that reduces medical costs and saves thousands of lives.
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Aromatherapy Shows Promise for Stressed Horses

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By Tracy Staedter
| How Stuff Works
Advertisement Chestnut Hanoverian horses have a reputation for being sensitive. Kylie Heitman didn't know that when she purchased her mare Lena, who is trained for a form of competition riding known as dressage. "She is quite sensitive and high-strung," Heitman says, adding that it was a challenge to keep the horse calm when she tried introducing her to new objects or skills.
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A Legacy of Leadership

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By Tracy Staedter
| marquette.edu
Scenes from the birth and ensuing decades of EOP include founding director Dr. Arnold Mitchem, Grad ’81, Hon Deg ’04, in his office, top left. Since 1969 Marquette’s Educational Opportunity Program has grown from a civil rights-era response into a model program with national influence. It owes much of its success — and its legacy of students who have become graduates and leaders — to its embrace of a cherished Jesuit principle, cura personalis.
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The World Has a Fertilizer Problem. Bioengineered Corn Could Save Us

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By Tracy Staedter
| Discover Magazine
Multiple scientists are working to grow corn that can fertilize itself, bypassing the need for nitrogen-based fertilizers that can harm the environment. By Tracy Staedter|Monday, November 11, 2019 In retrospect, a Wisconsin cornfield in mid-September 2018 wasn’t exactly the best place for an academic seminar. It was hot. There were horseflies.
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Four ways scientists band together outside the lab

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By Tracy Staedter
| Nature
Credit: Adapted from akindo/Getty For scientists, collaborating on research projects is nothing new. But even beyond the lab bench, there are plenty of ways to pull together and have a direct and positive impact on research itself. Here, Nature speaks to researchers who have found innovative ways to network, connect across disciplines, mentor and support one another and share knowledge and resources.
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Farm veterinarians are increasingly rare. Here’s why - and why you should care.

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By Amy Sutherland, Tracy Staedter, Ryan Brown
| expmag.com
The woman on the phone said her dairy cow could hardly stand. It was 4:30 a.m. The call had awoken Dr. Kelsey Hilton, a veterinarian in central Maine. She’d gotten to bed late because she’d been at the clinic until 10 p.m., treating a young goat with a blocked urethra, then driven an hour home. Now, in the dawn light, she told the woman to give calcium tablets to the Jersey and call her back later.
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Deer Decreasing Forest Bird Population

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By Tracy Staedter
| Scientific American
Large populations of deer are edging out forest birds in North America, report scientists in this month's issue of the journal Biological Conservation. The study is the first to evaluate the impact deer grazing can have on nest quality and food resources in areas unaffected by human activities such as forestry or hunting. It also offers general rules for predicting the influence these animals could have on bird ecosystems in the future.
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How Space Tourism Will Push Space Medicine to New Heights

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By Tracy Staedter
| Northrop Grumman
More than 560 specially trained astronauts have flown into space since 1961. Before traveling, all were closely monitored and pushed to physical fitness by an elite crew of physicians trained in space medicine. But as billions of dollars pour into space tourism and other extraterrestrial endeavors, hundreds, if not thousands, of space travelers of various ages and physical conditions will enter the frontier above Earth’s atmosphere.
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Remote-controlled Salmon Farms to Operate Off Norway by 2020

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By Tracy Staedter
| IEEE Spectrum
Illustration: Norway Royal Salmon Editor’s Picks Tucked within Norway’s fjord-riddled coast, nearly 3,500 fish pens corral upwards of 400 million salmon and trout. Not only does the country raise and ship more salmonoid overseas than any other in the world (1.1 million tons in 2018), farmed salmon is Norway’s third largest export behind crude petroleum and natural gas. In a global industry expected to quintuple by 2050, farmed salmon is a fine kettle of fish.
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Satellite Internet Technology Has Ignited a New Space Race

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By Tracy Staedter
| Northrop Grumman
Although 5G promises to revolutionize the internet, the next wave of broadband may actually come from satellite internet technology. Amazon, SES Networks and OneWeb, to name a few, have plans to launch constellations of small satellites that are designed to deliver telecommunications and internet services.
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Beresheet: The Little Spacecraft That Almost Did

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By Tracy Staedter
| astrosociety.org
July1, 2019 Beresheet: The Little Spacecraft That Almost Did byTracy Staedter This feature was originally published in the Spring 2019 (vol. 48, no. 2) issue of Mercury magazine, an ASP members-only quarterly publication. From a mission control room near Tel Aviv, Israel, dozens of people waited as the spacecraft Beresheet came out of its orbit around the Moon to attempt a lunar landing. Only three other countries in the world have touched down there safely: Russia, China and the United States.
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3D-Printed Semiconductor Cube Could Convert Waste Heat to Electricity

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By Tracy Staedter
| IEEE Spectrum
Photo: SPECIFIC team – Swansea University New 3D printed technique for thermoelectrics developed by the SPECIFIC research team. Editor’s Picks From his office at Swansea University in the United Kingdom, associate professor Matthew Carnie has a good view of Tata Steel’s furnace stacks. To some, those chimneys rising over Port Talbot are unsightly. To Carnie, they’re an opportunity.
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Why on Earth Should We Be Mining the Moon?

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By Tracy Staedter
| Northrop Grumman
Fifty years ago, geopolitical chest-puffing spurned a competition between the United States and Russia to see who would land on the moon first. Today, a new race has commenced — this one driven primarily by the economics of mining the moon. Water, rare elements and metals exist on the moon, according to NASA, and governmental and private space entities are betting on the potential profit of these space resources.
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All the beauty products he could ever want

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By Alix Strauss , Julia Beck, Tracy Staedter
| expmag.com
Career Day A glossy magazine beauty editor spills about the daily routine, the stories he loves, and Oprah. By Alix Strauss Brian Underwood is the beauty director of Oprah Magazine, a position he’s held for the past two years. Glossy magazine are endangered. Why do you still work at one? I gravitate towards print because at the end of this process you can pick it up, hold it, and live with this thing you’ve been working on. It’s an intimate tactile experience that feels like a prize.
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AI SpaceFactory Wins NASA's 3D-Printed Extraterrestrial Habitats Challenge

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By Tracy Staedter
| IEEE Spectrum
AI SpaceFactory bests Penn State in a one-of-a-kind competition to see whose innovative building techniques could someday allow humans to live on Mars or the moon Photos: Tracy StaedterEven a slight deviation in the 3-D printer's path creates noticeable mistakes, like the drooping strings that hang from AI SpaceFactory's structure, MARSHA (left).
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How Virtual Reality Therapy Can Treat Chronic Pain

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By Tracy Staedter
| Northrop Grumman
“I didn’t think a human could experience that much pain,” Greenport, New York, resident Bob Jester says in a video from the website Immersive Health. In August 2016, Jester fell from a rooftop and broke 19 bones, mainly in his back and legs. After multiple surgeries, he found himself with several rods and 16 bolts in his back and was facing excruciating pain that kept him awake at night. That’s when he started using virtual reality therapy as part of a chronic pain treatment program.
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Stretch, stay alert, and avoid raccoons

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By Tracy Staedter, Alix Strauss , Julia Beck
| expmag.com
Travis Staedter collects garbage from commercial buildings in downtown Milwaukee. He is the author’s brother. Does your job smell? Not always. Summer is worse. In the winter, stuff freezes. It’s not that bad. You get used to it. What’s a typical day like? At five to five, you can punch in. We go to a meeting room and go over safety. If somebody had an incident, they bring it up. Then we do some stretching. You’re getting in and out of the truck so much, and you’re pushing dumpsters.
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The 5,000-year-old answer to surviving rising seas

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By Eric Niiler , Jenni Gritters, Tracy Staedter
| expmag.com
Ideas One anthropologist’s research in Puerto Rico is needed more than ever — and threatened like never before By Eric Niiler For decades, anthropologist Isabel Rivera-Collazo has been telling a narrative about climate change through her research, showing how ancient populations adapted to environmental pressures. When Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Rivera-Collazo suddenly found herself a character in that story.
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This small island is taking on a big problem - climate change

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By Tracy Staedter, Glenn McDonald, Jim Sullivan , Cecilia Menchetti
| expmag.com
Future Of In Maine, some believe the solutions will come, not from laws, but from neighbors By Tracy Staedter On Maine’s Mount Desert Island, home to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, the sea brings news of change. Over the last 15 years, the Gulf of Maine has warmed faster than 99 percent of the global ocean. Storms more frequently swamp the island’s low-lying roads.
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These 5 Personal Security Devices Thwart Identity Theft

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By Tracy Staedter
| Northrop Grumman
The cost of identity theft is at an all-time high. The latest figures from the Federal Trade Commission indicated that although the number of consumer complaints about fraud dropped in 2017, people reported losing $905 million overall — $63 million more than they did in 2016. Investing in a couple of personal security devices could reduce one’s risk of falling victim to identity theft.
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How Philip K. Dick’s Fiction Lived Up to Modern Science

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By Tracy Staedter
| Northrop Grumman
Like all great science fiction writers, Philip K. Dick inspired a generation to imagine the future. His sci-fi books and short stories, published in the 1950s and 60s, centered on technological advances that didn’t yet exist. There are emotional robots, crime-predicting mutants, manipulated memories and more. Frequently in Dick’s stories, the protagonists struggle with their own sense of humanity and sometimes question reality.
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