Supersized Goldfish Could Become Superinvaders

Trouble viewing? View in your browser. View all Scientific American publications.

    

March 23, 2022

Climate Change Supersized Goldfish Could Become Superinvaders The fish—some of which have grown up to three pounds—could thrive in the conditions expected with climate change By Hannah Loss

Energy How Ukraine Unplugged from Russia and Joined Europe's Power Grid with Unprecedented Speed Engineers achieved "a year's work in two weeks" to safely do so By Anna Blaustein

Evolution Snakes' and Lizards' Slow and Steady Evolution Won the Race A related lineage's explosive growth leaves just one descendant today By Riley Black

Basic Chemistry See Crystals Form a Mesmerizing World of Microscopic Landscapes A pandemic micrography project By Joanna Thompson

Behavior A High-Speed Scientific Hive Mind Emerged from the COVID Pandemic The pandemic pushed researchers into new forms of rapid communication and collaboration By Joseph Bak-Coleman,Carl T. Bergstrom

Climate Change Public Housing to Receive Efficiency Upgrades as Part of Energy Department Experiment Retrofitting older buildings with heat pumps and insulation would reduce energy costs and carbon emissions By John Fialka,E&E News

Climate Change Some Good News About Corals and Climate Change A nearly two-year-long study of Hawaiian corals suggests some species may be better equipped to handle warmer, more acidic waters than previously believed. By Christopher Intagliata | 01:56

Astronomy Cosmic Collisions Yield Clues about Exoplanet Formation Low levels of bombardment reveal that the TRAPPIST-1 system probably grew quickly By Sean Raymond

Defense How Many Nuclear Weapons Exist, and Who Has Them? Nuclear states admit to owning about 13,000 warheads, but the real number could be higher By Joe Phelan,LiveScience

Particle Physics Why Some Fluids Flow Slower when Pushed Harder A transparent rock experiment shows how stretchy molecules kick up eddies By Rachel Berkowitz

Climate Change Proposed SEC Climate Rules Have Sparked a Fight over Indirect Emissions If finalized, the rules would require companies to disclose emissions associated with their consumers and suppliers By Avery Ellfeldt,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 4

ADVERTISEMENT

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Are we creating these 'superinvaders' that are likely to have incrementally greater impacts in the wild under climate change?" Nicholas Mandrak, conservation biologist at University of Toronto Scarborough

LATEST ISSUES

Questions?   Comments?

Download the Scientific American App

To view this email as a web page, go here. You received this email because you opted-in to receive email from Scientific American. To ensure delivery please add news@email.scientificamerican.com to your address book. Unsubscribe     Manage Email Preferences     Privacy Policy     Contact Us