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Rock Samples Taken from Far Side of the Moon and a ‘Morning-After Pill’ for STIs

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s news roundup, we present the latest from the skies and the pillbox. The Hubble Space Telescope is limping along, operating with just one gyroscope to preserve its research capabilities. China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe is sending back the first ever samples from the far side of the moon. Plus, there are exciting advancements in the world of pharmaceuticals, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsing a “morning-after pill” for STIs and artificial intelligence discovering potential novel antibiotics. E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for our daily Today in Science newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Kelso Harper, Carin Leong, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Kelso Harper. Our show is edited by Elah Feder, Alexa Lim, Madison Goldberg and Anaissa Ruiz Tejada, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Radio.

0:31.1

Hey science nerds, happy Monday.

0:33.0

It's Kelso Harper, multimedia editor here at Scientific American.

0:37.2

I am once again filling in for Rachel Feltman while she's out because, well, the news moves fast and microphones are a pain to drag around on vacation.

0:46.0

Rachel will be back in your feed later this week to talk about the surprisingly mysterious science

0:50.9

of tattoos and back to her usual Monday routine next week.

0:55.0

But for now it's time to catch up on some news.

1:01.0

Okay, let's jump in.

1:03.4

Last Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

1:06.8

endorsed what it's calling the first new

1:09.0

STI prevention tool in decades.

1:11.4

It's an antibiotic called doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis or doxypepe for short,

1:19.0

and it's a sort of morning after pill for sexually transmitted infections or STIs.

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