Here's How Climate Change Will Stress Your Homeland

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August 10, 2021

Climate Change Here's How Climate Change Will Stress Your Homeland Hotter Asia, drier Alps, stormier U.S., saltier island nations By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Renewable Energy Wave Power Charges Ahead with Static Electricity Generators An ocean-powered buoy brings technology closer to the dream of obtaining energy from the sea By Maddie Bender

Memory Digital Heads Help Eyewitnesses Identify Suspects Witnesses were more accurate when they interacted with 3-D models than when they looked at still photographs. And the models were less expensive than an in-person lineup By Sophie Bushwick

Microbiology Inside Millions of Invisible Droplets, Potential Superbug Killers Grow New research has created microscopic antibiotic factories in droplets that measure a trillionth of liter in volume. By Sarah Vitak | 06:34

Privacy What is Pegasus? How Surveillance Spyware Invades Phones A cybersecurity expert explains the NSO Group's stealthy software By Bhanukiran Gurijala,The Conversation US

Conservation Indigenous Amazon Communities Fight Deforestation with New Early-Alert Tool A pilot program reveals that deforestation declined when Peruvian Indigenous communities use an early-alert-system app to detect forest loss By Annie Sneed

Mental Health Critical Care Doctors Are in Crisis Who's caring for the ICU physicians? By Carolyn Barber

Climate Change Earth Is Warmer Than It's Been in 125,000 Years A landmark assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change says greenhouse gases are unequivocally driving extreme weather, but nations can still prevent the worst impacts By Jeff Tollefson,Nature magazine

Weather Can Intense Thunderstorms Alter the Stratosphere? NASA Intends to Find Out Evidence suggests severe storms can send vapor and pollutants into the stratosphere, upsetting its chemistry By Maria Jimenez Moya,E&E News

Neurology Stuttering Stems from Problems in Brain Wiring, Not Personalities Poor neural connections among areas that control movement and speech may be responsible and could be driven by genes By Lydia Denworth

Space Exploration The Ethics of Sending Humans to Mars We need to avoid the mistakes European countries made during the age of colonization By Nicholas Dirks

FROM THE STORE How to Do Anything Better When we think about the things we do every day—driving, working, parenting—we realize that even with tasks we are generally good at, there is always room for improvement. As always, science is on the case. This eBook contains a collection of columns written by health and psychology journalist Sunny Sea Gold, whose work has also appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine and Parents. These selections, published by Scientific American between 2009 – 2017, offer practical tips for acing life from nailing that job interview to giving the perfect gift.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE What Climate Change Does to the Human Body An ENT physician sees the effects in her patients all the time By Neelu Tummala | August 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Climate change is already affecting every region of our planet, and every fraction of additional warming will increasingly affect every region in multiple ways." Valérie Masson-Delmotte, co-chair of Working Group I, IPCC

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