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Four billion miles from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft investigates Pluto and the furthest reaches of the solar system. 

A massive region of planetesimal bodies called the Kuiper Belt circumscribes our solar system. Home to dwarf planets like Pluto, the belt also boasts thousands of small, planet-like objects which may date back to the beginnings of our own planetary system. On January 1, 2019, NASA’s New Horizons space probe completed a flyby of one of these objects, the most distant object in our solar system ever to be studied.

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In a new National Geographic film, editor and writer Brian Newell crafts a tale of the human and environmental threats faced by Africa’s mighty Okavango Delta. 

Into the Okavango, a National Geographic documentary film released in December, follows a trio of modern-day explorers as they travel by traditional canoe (mokoro) more than 1,500 miles down the massive Okavango river toward its mighty delta, a site under increasing threat from human activity.

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Does Professor Thomas Armstrong’s research into the psychology of disgust hold the key to more effective treatments for anxiety disorders?

Two contrasting images appear on a computer screen in Assistant Professor of Psychology Thomas Armstrong’s lab. After several seconds, they disappear, to be replaced by a new pair. Participants in this experiment see one “disgusting” object—a rotting apple, a blood-spattered sink—and one “neutral” counterpart—a wall clock or a coat hook. A small device attached to the computer tracks their eye movements, allowing Armstrong to determine what people do when they see something disgusting—look at it, or avert their gaze.

Photo: Matt Z. Banderas

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His grandmother’s babysitter was Chief Joseph. He has appeared on The Colbert Report. He laughs with you but he also talks about genocide. When you speak to Sherman Alexie, you cover a lot of ground. Just don’t ask him to be a spokesman for anyone.

An interview with Seattle-based author Sherman Alexie about his novel Reservation Blues, which charts the course of Coyote Springs, an all-Indian rock ’n’ roll band that forms on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Eastern Washington. In Alexie’s novel, music is a means to tell stories filled with humor and sadness.

Photo courtesy Royce Carlton Inc.

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At Wittenberg University in Ohio, climate change professor Sarah Fortner's work on Antarctic glaciers and earth resources may be one step toward a more environmentally sustainable future.

Getting to Antarctica isn’t easy. It takes nearly a day and a half to travel from the U.S. to Christchurch, New Zealand. Then your gear is checked to make sure it meets military standards and weight requirements. Next, you get your issues: “A big red parka and what they call bunny boots—basically they inflate a little bit so there’s a layer of air to insulate your feet,” Fortner explained. Finally, around 100 passengers bundle into a Lockheed C-130 for the flight from Christchurch to Antarctica, which takes eight hours—that is, unless you get “boomeranged,” or sent back after flying halfway there due to adverse conditions.

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