Summary
In science news around the world, China’s Zhurong rover rolls off the Tianwen-1 Mars mission’s lander and sends its first pictures back to Earth. Test scores of U.S. fourth grade students in science show a significant drop of three points on a quadrennial national test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, whereas scores of eighth and 12th grade students stayed flat. An auction fetches $1.2 million for a letter containing one of four extant instances of Albert Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2 written in his own hand. A blind man who received a gene for a light-sensing algal protein in one eye can now see objects with the help of special goggles, researchers report.
