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NASA Is ‘Evaluating All Options’ to Get the Boeing Starliner Crew Home BY ERIC BERGER, ARS TECHNICA | 4-MINUTE READ Eight weeks after the Starliner spacecraft launched, NASA is still looking for possible answers to its technical issues—including the possibility of SpaceX lending a hand.   See the Perseids and Southern Delta Aquariids in a Stunning Double Meteor Shower BY GRETCHEN RUNDORFF | 4-MINUTE READ Across the Northern Hemisphere, August will see beautiful displays of meteors. Here’s everything you need to know to enjoy them.   The Shameful Controversy Over Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif BY PAOLO ARMELLI | 2-MINUTE READ Imane Khelif has always defined herself as a woman, and has every right to compete.   ‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers BY JORDANA CEPELEWICZ | 6-MINUTE READ The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis.   Public Health Experts Want Coca-Cola and the Olympics to Break Up BY ISABEL FRASER | 4-MINUTE READ Scientists, activists, and ordinary petitioners want the Olympics to break with Coca-Cola, comparing it to the tobacco companies that long sponsored the Games. They aren’t holding their breath.   ADVERTISEMENT   The Fight to Save Florida’s Oranges BY AYURELLA HORN-MULLER | 6-MINUTE READ Once the leading producer of the citrus fruit in the US, Florida is being ground down by hurricanes, diseases, and drought—but its orange growers aren’t giving up yet.   Mountain Bikers Are Rewilding Land by Paying the Government to Do It BY TRISTAN KENNEDY | 7-MINUTE READ A new nature-restoration project in Wales is being funded by an unusual source: thrill-seeking downhill lovers.   Jane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the World BY VLADAN SHIR AND MICHAL KUČERA | 5-MINUTE READ The world, the famed primatologist says, isn’t what it used to be—but there’s still time to save it, if we treat crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty as one.   How to Stop Wildfire Smoke Damaging Your Health BY RACHEL CONNOLLY AND MICHAEL JERRETT | 3-MINUTE READ Smoke from fires is linked to thousands of premature deaths every year, and is a growing health threat as widespread blazes become more common.   Tuariki Delamere’s Somersault Could Have Launched a New Era in the Olympic Long Jump BY RHETT ALLAIN | 5-MINUTE READ The New Zealander came up with a better way to jump, using a front flip in midair. But the sport’s stodgy authorities shut him down before the 1975 Games.

The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It’s Loony BY CLIVE THOMPSON | 19-MINUTE READ Stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines, QR-coded take-out boxes: They’re how we can break society’s absurd addiction to single-use plastics.

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