Last Month Was among the Hottest Julys Ever Recorded

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August 10, 2022

Climate Change Last Month Was among the Hottest Julys Ever Recorded July 2022 became one of the planet's top three hottest Julys amid a summer of record-shattering heat for the Northern Hemisphere By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Extraterrestrial Life Cultural Bias Distorts the Search for Alien Life "Decolonizing" the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) could boost its chances of success, says science historian Rebecca Charbonneau By Camilo Garzón

Psychology When Students Acquire Spatial Skills, Their Verbal Abilities Get a Boost Learning to visualize objects might improve thinking in words, a finding that could enhance teaching methods By Emily Willingham

Natural Disasters Almost No One in Kentucky Has Flood Insurance, Hindering Recovery Only 2.3 percent of households in the 10 Kentucky counties that suffered devastating floods last month have flood policies, records show By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Animals For Some Dolphins, the Key to Mating is Rolling With a Tight, Noisy Crew A pair of studies show that male bottlenose dolphins rely on wingmen when wooing mates—and that they cultivate these friendships by being vocal. By Karen Hopkin | 05:36

Health Care Patients and Doctors Navigate Conflicting Abortion and Emergency Care Laws The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade has put medical providers in the tough position of deciding when emergency abortions and other lifesaving procedures are necessary By Harris Meyer,Kaiser Health News

Physiology How Scientists Revived Dead Pigs' Organs, and What the Feat Means for Transplants A whole-body perfusion system restored cellular activity in pigs an hour postmortem By Tanya Lewis

Climate Change Drones Bearing Parcels Deliver Big Carbon Savings Last-mile delivery by a small drone takes much less energy per package than delivery by diesel truck By Freda Kreier,Nature magazine

Climate Change In Memoriam: James Lovelock (1919-2022) The inventor who introduced the Gaia hypothesis to environmental science leaves behind a rich legacy By John Gribbin,Nature magazine

Natural Disasters Poem: 'My Father Flies into a Hurricane' Science in meter and verse By Fionna M. D. Samuels

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