Act on Climate Emergency Now to Prevent Millions of Deaths, Study Shows

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July 29, 2021

Climate Change Act on Climate Emergency Now to Prevent Millions of Deaths, Study Shows The human toll of carbon emissions will vastly magnify climate change's economic costs By Andrea Thompson

Engineering Entire Buildings Can Be Wrapped in Jackets to Save Energy Apartment buildings, or blocks of row houses, can be upgraded in one installation By Willem Marx

Extraterrestrial Life Harvard's Avi Loeb Thinks We Should Study UFOs--and He's Not Wrong As a SETI scientist, I'm grateful that he has the freedom—and the guts—to go where few would dare to go By Seth Shostak

Computing The Question Medical AI Can't Answer It's unable to tell us why it came to a particular decision—and that's crucial information By Jason H. Moore

Climate Change Infrastructure Deal Whittles Down Climate Spending The bipartisan legislation includes less funding for public transit and electric vehicles By Adam Aton,E&E News

Biology Caffeine Boosts Bees' Focus and Helps Them Learn By associating caffeinated sugar-water and a target scent, researchers teach bumblebees to stay on task By Tess Joosse

Computing AI Creates False Documents That Fake Out Hackers The algorithm hides sensitive information in a sea of decoys By Sophie Bushwick

Behavior Why So Many Young People Hate STEM Courses Take it from someone who almost gave up on her dream of being a scientist By Rhea Wanchoo

Space & Physics China's Space Station Is Preparing to Host 1,000 Science Experiments The spaceborne studies will cover diverse topics, from dark matter and gravitational waves to the growth of cancer and pathogenic bacteria By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Climate Change Red States Seek to Block Biden Update to Key Climate Metric Ten Republican attorneys general have asked a federal court to keep a revamped social cost of carbon from taking effect By Maxine Joselow,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Space & Physics, Volume 4, Issue 4

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FROM THE ARCHIVE On Climate, Biden Must Do More Than Undo Trump's Damage The new administration cannot just go back to the future on carbon emissions By Andrea Thompson | December 2020

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