Floods Are Destroying Roads and Buildings. The White House Wants to Raise Them</h1> <article> <h1>Floods Are Destroying Roads and Buildings. The White House Wants to Raise Them</h1> <p>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0000</p> <p>The Federal Emergency Management Agency is requiring any construction project it funds to be elevated above local flood levels</p> </article> <article> <h1>Europe’s New Ariane 6 Rocket Launches at Last</h1> <p>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:15:00 +0000</p> <p>Europe rejoins the new space race with the launch of its long-awaited Ariane 6 rocket</p> </article> <article> <h1>5 New Types of Gravitational-Wave Detectors Could Reshape Astrophysics</h1> <p>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</p> <p>With the confirmation of gravitational waves less than a decade old, scientists are barreling ahead with new detectors to pick up ever more elusive ripples in spacetime</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Supreme Court’s Contempt for Facts Is a Betrayal of Justice</h1> <p>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000</p> <p>The Supreme Court majority’s recent decisions about homelessness, public health and regulatory power, among others, undermine the role of evidence, expertise and honesty in American democracy</p> </article> <article> <h1>Gen X Faces Higher Cancer Rates Than Any Previous Generation</h1> <p>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:45:00 +0000</p> <p>Researchers are investigating changes in cancer risks among young people as new data predict that rising rates of leading cancers, such as colon cancer, will overtake improvements</p> </article> <article> <h1>Przewalski’s Horses Are Back—On TikTok and the Central Asian Steppes</h1> <p>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Claims that Przewalski’s horses were discovered in the U.S. are unverified. But the conservation story behind the last truly wild horse is worth your time.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Heat Waves Can Buckle Train Tracks, Delaying Commutes and Commerce</h1> <p>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Extreme heat can cause train tracks to expand and buckle. That’s forcing rail operators to adapt as the climate warms</p> </article> <article> <h1>We Indulged Our Child During COVID Lockdown. Did That Change Him?</h1> <p>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0000</p> <p>During the lockdown phase of the COVID pandemic, we indulged our toddler son. Years later, we wonder if his current behavior is normal or a result of that early isolation </p> </article> <article> <h1>PMDD Is a Menstrual Disorder Much More Severe than PMS</h1> <p>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a condition triggered by hormonal changes that can cause severe symptoms such as despair and suicidal thoughts</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Head of NASA Science Spent a Whole Weekend Building a LEGO Rocket</h1> <p>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</p> <p><i>Scientific American </i>sat down with Nicola Fox, head of NASA science, to talk about her LEGO-building hobby, the agency’s massive Space Launch System rocket and the NASA science she’s most excited about</p> </article> <article> <h1>We’re Not Asking the Right Question to Solve the Overdose Crisis</h1> <p>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Drug policy continues to fixate on symptoms rather than the actual disease</p> </article> <article> <h1>How Drones Are Revolutionizing Search and Rescue</h1> <p>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 10:45:00 +0000</p> <p>As drones get less expensive and computer vision systems improve, rescuers are getting help from artificial eyes in the sky</p> </article> <article> <h1>We Cannot Cede Control of Weapons to Artificial Intelligence</h1> <p>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000</p> <p>I watched United Nations delegates debate AI-based weapons that can fire without human initiation. Humans cannot be taken out of that decision-making</p> </article> <article> <h1>Training with 'Digital Twins' Could Boost Olympic Swimmer Speeds</h1> <p>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:30:00 +0000</p> <p>In the Paris 2024 summer Olympics, swimmers will be guided by their digital twin. Here’s how they work to help the fastest swimmers break records</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Wild History of Hurricane Forecasting</h1> <p>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Scientists, pilots and even a Jesuit priest have tried over decades to understand some of the most ferocious storms on Earth, but climate change is making such efforts to avert damage more difficult</p> </article> <article> <h1>‘Frog Saunas’ Could Protect Species from Devastating Fungal Disease</h1> <p>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000</p> <p>A low-tech immune boost may help some species of frogs survive a brutal fungal disease that’s already ended 90 species</p> </article> <article> <h1>Marijuana’s New Legal Status Must Spark More Research</h1> <p>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000</p> <p>While most Americans enjoy access to marijuana, barriers to research and knowledge expansion persist—with dangerous consequences. Unlimited research access is needed</p> </article> <article> <h1>‘Phantom Costs’ Explain Why Some Deals Seem Too Good to Be True</h1> <p>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:45:00 +0000</p> <p>Fear of hidden costs pushes us to avoid “free money” or suspiciously good offers</p> </article> <article> <h1>How to Avoid Petrochemical Products</h1> <p>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000</p> <p>It’s well known that petrochemicals are toxic to our health. Here’s how to steer clear of these by-products of the fossil-fuel industry.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Popcorn, the Ultimate Snack, May Have Truly Ancient Origins</h1> <p>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Popcorn might be more than 6,000 years old, an anthropologist explains</p> </article> <article> <h1>Not Everyone Has an Inner Voice Streaming Through Their Head</h1> <p>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</p> <p>The extent to which people experience “inner speech” varies greatly, and the differences matter for performing certain cognitive tasks</p> </article> <article> <h1>From Diagnosing Brain Disorders to Cognitive Enhancement, 100 Years of EEG Have Transformed Neuroscience</h1> <p>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:30:00 +0000</p> <p>The EEG has shaped researchers’ understanding of cognition for everything from perception to memory</p> </article> <article> <h1>Light Is How Astronomers Read the Story of the Universe</h1> <p>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:45:00 +0000</p> <p>Almost everything we know about the cosmos is conveyed by photons traveling across vast distances</p> </article> <article> <h1>Mosquito Bloodlust Is Driven by These Two Hormones</h1> <p>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Mosquitoes carry a pair of hormones, one of which drives bloodlust while the other signals satiation, scientists say</p> </article> <article> <h1>Przewalski's Horses Are Finally Returning to Their Natural Habitat</h1> <p>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:45:00 +0000</p> <p>Przewalski’s horses, once extinct in the wild, are revitalizing Kazakhstan’s “Golden Steppe”</p> </article> <article> <h1>New NASA Heat Map Shows Scorching Streets That Can Burn Skin in Seconds</h1> <p>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 19:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Under the scorching summer sun, pavement can reach temperatures hot enough to cause second-degree burns</p> </article> <article> <h1>Antiabortion Heartbeat Bills Cause Immense Suffering</h1> <p>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:00:00 +0000</p> <p>The rise in infant mortality in Texas shows that in states with strict abortion bans, forcing people to carry nonviable pregnancies to term codifies cruelty and unnecessary pain</p> </article> <article> <h1>New Supreme Court Decisions Jeopardize Efforts to Curb Pollution and Climate Change</h1> <p>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:30:00 +0000</p> <p>Four recent Supreme Court decisions will together make it much harder for the federal government to take action on climate change</p> </article> <article> <h1>Biden Pushes to Stop Heat Deaths after Decades of Delay</h1> <p>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:15:00 +0000</p> <p>It took 50 years and skyrocketing temperatures before the government proposed heat protections for workers. The Biden administration is trying to speed up the process</p> </article> <article> <h1>How Some People’s Body Resists Getting COVID</h1> <p>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0000</p> <p>When scientists exposed people to the virus that causes COVID, only a subset got sick. Studying them could offer clues to immunity</p> </article> <article> <h1>Summertime Depression Could Be a Type of Seasonal Affective Disorder</h1> <p>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Heat and mood are closely linked, which may explain summertime depression—and how to treat it</p> </article> <article> <h1>A Combination COVID and Flu Vaccine Is Coming Soon</h1> <p>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</p> <p>The first large trial of a COVID and flu vaccine combo suggests it boosts immune protection even more than single-target shots</p> </article> <article> <h1>What Makes a Psychedelic Experience? Not Always a Drug, It Turns Out</h1> <p>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 11:30:00 +0000</p> <p>A Stanford anesthesiologist deconstructs the component parts of what it means to undergo a psychedelic trip</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought</h1> <p>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Despite great progress, we lack even the beginning of an explanation of how the brain produces our inner world of colors, sounds, smells and tastes. A thought experiment with “pain-pleasure” zombies illustrates that the mystery is deeper than we thought</p> </article> <article> <h1>Pupil Dilation Reveals Better Working Memory</h1> <p>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 10:45:00 +0000</p> <p>People whose eyes dilated more performed better on tests of working memory</p> </article> <article> <h1>Heat Waves Need FEMA’s Help</h1> <p>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Heat waves are costly and kill more people each year than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined, but because FEMA doesn’t count them as disasters, communities miss out on important resources</p> </article> <article> <h1>New Heat Risk Map Shows Which Parts of the U.S. Are Likely to Suffer the Most</h1> <p>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:30:00 +0000</p> <p>The CDC’s new Heat and Health Index looks at the vulnerability of 32,000 neighborhoods to extreme heat using demographic and health statistics</p> </article> <article> <h1>Supreme Court’s Message in First Amendment Case: Tech Is Free to Moderate Social Media</h1> <p>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0000</p> <p>The Supreme Court kicked two cases challenging social media moderation laws in Florida and Texas back to lower courts</p> </article> <article> <h1>Pasteurization Kills Bird Flu Virus in Milk, New Studies Confirm</h1> <p>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Flash pasteurization destroyed H5N1 viral particles that were highly concentrated in raw milk, confirming that standard techniques can keep dairy products safe from bird flu</p> </article> <article> <h1>Vaccines Are the Safest Health Hack</h1> <p>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Vaccines are a cornerstone of a healthy immune system—and a healthy life</p> </article> <article> <h1>A Retracted Stem Cell Study Reveals Science’s Shortcomings</h1> <p>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000</p> <p>The withdrawal after 22 years of a controversial stem cell paper highlights how perverse incentives can distort scientific progress</p> </article> <article> <h1>Why Hurricane Beryl Underwent Unprecedented Rapid Intensification</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:10:00 +0000</p> <p>Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, exploded in strength unusually early in its development, fueled by exceptionally warm ocean waters</p> </article> <article> <h1>How the Supreme Court’s ‘Chevron Deference’ Ruling Could Remake the Energy Sector</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0000</p> <p>The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on <b>“</b>Chevron deference<b>”</b> could affect federal regulations of everything from power plant emissions to electric vehicles to transmission lines</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Riemann Hypothesis, the Biggest Problem in Mathematics, Is a Step Closer to Being Solved</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Number theorists have been trying to prove a conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers for more than 160 years</p> </article> <article> <h1>Quack Cancer Diets Endanger People. Stick to Science-Backed Medicine</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000</p> <p>False cures and dangerous misinformation, from the misguided to the exploitative, surround cancer patients, with the capacity to do serious harm</p> </article> <article> <h1>AI Chatbots Seem as Ethical as a New York Times Advice Columnist</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:45:00 +0000</p> <p>Large language models lack emotion and self-consciousness, but they appear to generate reasonable answers to moral quandaries</p> </article> <article> <h1>Starliner Astronauts Are in Limbo, and Emergency Access to Abortion Is Preserved</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Emergency access to abortion is preserved—for now. Also, NASA postpones the return of Starliner astronauts, and we’re tracking the spread of bird flu, dengue and mpox.<br/></p> </article> <article> <h1>More Climate Lawsuits Than Ever Are Trying to Hold Companies and Countries to Account</h1> <p>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000</p> <p>At least 230 new climate cases were filed in 2023, but researchers noted the growth of such cases was slower than in prior years</p> </article> <article> <h1>Republicans Are Downplaying Abortion, but It Keeps Coming Up</h1> <p>Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Following the fall of <i>Roe v. Wade</i>, abortion remains a top issue for many voters</p> </article> <article> <h1>Are Pets Really Good for Health?</h1> <p>Sat, 29 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000</p> <p>It turns out there’s little good evidence that pets benefit our physical or mental health</p> </article> </main></body></html>