Why Are Pakistan's Floods So Extreme This Year?

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September 06, 2022

Climate Change Why Are Pakistan's Floods So Extreme This Year? One-third of the country is under water, following an intense heat wave and a long monsoon that has dumped a record amount of rain By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Extraterrestrial Life SETI Pioneer Frank Drake Leaves a Legacy of Searching for Voices in the Void Remembering Frank Drake, who led science in listening for an extraterrestrial "whisper we can't quite hear" By Lee Billings

Cancer Most People at Risk for Lung Cancer Never Get Screened: Here's How to Fix That U.S. lung cancer screening guidelines miss people who have never smoked, as well as many women and Black people. Expanding outreach and eligibility could help By Simar Bajaj

Climate Change A Climate-Fueled Heat Wave Tests California's Power Grid Officials are urging California residents to curtail their energy use as the state faces this summer's highest chance of outages during record-breaking temperatures By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

Microbiology Predatory Bacteria Are Fierce, Ballistic and Full of Potential Bacterial predators fight like wolves, torpedoes and vampires, and they could provide the next antibiotics By Jennifer Frazer

Geology New Classification Reveals Just How Many Ways Minerals Form A huge number of minerals' origins are tied to life on Earth By Fionna M. D. Samuels

Psychology Changing Perceptions about Harm Can Temper Moral Outrage If you can find ways to make an activity appear safer, you can also make it more morally acceptable to some people By Jordan Wylie,Ana Gantman

Aerospace Could Dragons from Game of Thrones Actually Fly? Aeronautical Engineering and Math Says They Could Dragon flight in Game of Thrones comes from wing area, weight, speed and hints of a different atmosphere than that of Earth By Guy Gratton,The Conversation US

Vaccines Omicron-Specific Booster Shots: 5 Questions Answered The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized updated COVID booster shots that target the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants. Here's what experts know By Prakash Nagarkatti,Mitzi Nagarkatti,The Conversation US

Cancer Almost Half of Cancer Deaths Are Preventable Data show that smoking, drinking alcohol and having a high body mass index are the biggest contributors to cancer worldwide By Giorgia Guglielmi,Nature magazine

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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