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b"An Explosive End For A Massive Rocket\\nThis week, SpaceX attempted the first uncrewed orbital test flight of its massive Super Heavy rocket topped with an experimental crew capsule known as Starship. After one aborted launch earlier in the week, the huge rocket successfully lifted off Thursday morning\\u2014but minutes later, the Starship component failed to separate from the Super Heavy booster, and the combined rocket stack exploded. While a setback for the team, SpaceX head Elon Musk said that a lot had been learned from the flight, and another test launch would take place in several months.\\nPurbita Saha, senior editor at Popular Science, joins SciFri\\u2019s John Dankosky to talk about the launch and other stories from the week in science, including an Earth Day look at water conservation issues across the country and the materials science of Maya plaster.\\nPlus,\\xa0you can now listen to Science Friday's new arts podcast, Universe of Art. SciFri producer and Universe of Art host D Peterschmidt joins John to\\xa0give a sneak peak of some of the episodes.\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\nDismantling Myths About Menstruation\\nSaying the phrase \\u201cmenstrual blood\\u201d or or the word \\u201cperiod\\u201d can feel almost dirty. That\\u2019s because in the western world, people with periods are taught not to discuss this exceedingly normal biological process. Half the world will menstruate at some point in their lives, and yet menstruation remains exceedingly under-studied.\\nBiological anthropologist Kate Clancy dug into the history of menstruation research, and the myriad misconceptions about it, while working on her book \\u201cPeriod: The Real Story of Menstruation.\\u201d What she found was a lack of basic understanding of the biological process, from physicians and menstruators alike. Clancy speaks with guest host Maddie Sofia about the misconceptions of a \\u201cnormal\\u201d menstrual cycle, and other persisting period myths.\\nFighting Climate Change With Genetically Modified Trees\\nVince Stanley has a saying, which he holds as true in a commercial forest as on a row crop farm: Every acre has a plan. In a wetland he owns in Tattnall County, about 70 miles west of Savannah, downhill from an orderly grove of predictably profitable loblolly pines, he is trying out something new. \\u201cNow, look at this guy right here,\\u201d Stanley said, pointing out what looked more like a stick in the mud compared to the tupelos growing a few yards away in the deeper water. This stick, surrounded by pin flags and planted about six feet away from its sister, had signs of new life: dark green leaves. \\u201cThat\\u2019s impressive,\\u201d Stanley said.\\nAnd the germ of the new plan for these acres, is something that, until now, Stanley said he didn\\u2019t really have. \\u201cWe\\u2019re just leaving this up to Mother Nature,\\u201d he said. \\u201cSo now with Living Carbon, we\\u2019ve gone to Option B.\\u201d This nascent tree and 10,499 others are at the heart of Option B, what might be the first effort of its kind in the nation: genetically engineered trees planted in a forest. What\\u2019s more, these trees are for sale.\\nRead the rest at sciencefriday.com.\\n\\n\\xa0\\nAll You Need To Know About Anesthesia\\nIf you\\u2019ve ever had surgery, you\\u2019ve probably wondered about how anesthesia works, or maybe even lied awake at night anxious about going under. If you\\u2019ve ever been there, I\\u2019m sure you remember: Right before surgery, you get rolled into the operating room. The anesthesiologist tells you to start counting down from 10. The next thing you know, you\\u2019re awake in the recovery room and you don\\u2019t remember anything that just happened to you. How exactly did anesthesiologists manage to get you safely into that state and back out again?\\nGuest host John Dankosky talks with Dr. Louise Sun, professor of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine at Stanford University Health and Dr. Gunisha Kaur, anesthesiologist, director of the Human Rights Impact Lab, and medical director of Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights at Weill Cornell Medicine about the basics of how anesthesia works."