Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

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November 30, 2021

Evolution Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse  By Henry Gee

Conservation To Conserve More Species, Act while Their Numbers Are High On Remembrance Day for Lost Species, mourn what's lost, but also be grateful for the species we still have By Michelle Nijhuis

Reproduction A Timeline of How Abortion Laws Could Affect Pregnancy Decisions If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in a Mississippi abortion case, numerous state laws will interfere with key biological and social decisions during pregnancy By Sara Reardon

Neuroscience How Brains Seamlessly Switch Between Languages Bilingual people engage the same brain region that monolingual individuals use to put together words—even when combining different languages By Daisy Yuhas

Genetics Ranking the Risk of Heart Disease By accounting for the additive effect of multiple genetic variants, researchers can develop a system that improves their ability to identify the most vulnerable By Michael Eisenstein

Medicine How a Child's Heart Health Could Be Decided before Birth Lifestyle is a major contributor to heart disease in adults, but risk factors such as genetics and parental lifestyle can also have an effect By Bianca Nogrady

Arts What We Lose as Snowfall Disappears, the Science behind Aesop's Fables, and Other New Books Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American By Amy Brady

Basic Chemistry Tiny Vibrating Bubbles Could Make Mining More Sustainable An updated bubbling process allows for more efficient mineral separation By Tess Joosse

FROM THE STORE Existence and Other Questions: Selected Works of John Horgan Does free will exist? Is the Schrödinger Equation True? How does matter make a mind? In his Scientific American column, John Horgan takes a scientific approach to exploring mysteries such as these, and in this eBook, we collect some of his most thought-provoking work on consciousness, quantum mechanics, the science of psychedelic drugs and more.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE We Are the Aliens On a geologic timescale, the emergence of the human "dataome" is like a sudden invasion by extraterrestrials or an asteroid impact that precipitates a mass extinction By Caleb A. Scharf | May 2021

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