'Zoe' Becomes the World's First Named Heat Wave

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July 27, 2022

Climate Change 'Zoe' Becomes the World's First Named Heat Wave Blistering temperatures ranked as a Category 3—the most severe tier—in Seville, Spain's new heat wave system By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Extraterrestrial Life New Instrument Could Spy Signs of Alien Life in Glowing Rocks Organisms on Earth produce a wide array of durable "biofluorescent" materials. If those on other planets do, too, the Compact Color Biofinder should be able to detect them By Allison Gasparini

Space Exploration Russia Plans to Leave the International Space Station after 2024 The announcement comes as NASA and Roscosmos are laying plans to transition to other orbital habitats By Brett Tingley,SPACE.com

Pollution Eating Too Much Protein Makes Pee a Problem Pollutant in the U.S. Protein-packed diets add excess nitrogen to the environment through urine, rivaling pollution from agricultural fertilizers By Sasha Warren

Engineering There Are Too Few Women in Computer Science and Engineering It's not that they aren't interested; it's the culture of these fields and how they exclude women and girls By Sapna Cheryan,Allison Master,Andrew Meltzoff

Medicine Transforming the Trajectory of Lung Cancer [Sponsored] Lung cancer is the number-one cause of cancer deaths in the world. But how many lives would be saved if doctors could diagnose and treat it before it progresses? By Scientific American Custom Media | 09:02

Epidemiology 'Their Lives Are Worth More Than Ours': Experts in Africa Slam Global Response to Monkeypox Earlier action by the World Health Organization and Western countries could have helped control monkeypox in Africa By Paul Adepoju

Privacy Data Vu: Why Breaches Involve the Same Stories Again and Again Data breaches involve the same old mistakes; we must break the cycle By Daniel J. Solove,Woodrow Hartzog

Public Health Graphic: Many States That Restrict or Ban Abortion Don't Teach Kids About Sex and Pregnancy States that protect abortion rights tend to have more comprehensive sex ed policies By Fionna M. D. Samuels

Quantum Physics New Phase of Matter Opens Portal to Extra Time Dimension Physicists have devised a mind-bending error-correction technique that could dramatically boost the performance of quantum computers By Zeeya Merali

FROM THE STORE The Science of Climate Change As evidence for human interference in the Earth's climate continues to accumulate, scientists have gained a better understanding of when, where and how the impacts of global warming are being felt. In this eBook, we examine those impacts on the planet, on human society and on the plant and animal kingdoms, as well as effective mitigation strategies including resourceful urban design and smart carbon policies. *Editor's Note: This Collector's Edition was published as Climate Change. The eBook adaptation contains all of the articles, but some of the artwork has been removed to optimize viewing on tablet devices.

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