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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

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