The case to give up fossil fuels, reducing police brutality, COVID rebound, and more!

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

    

February 08, 2023

Climate Change We Can't Solve Our Climate Problems without Removing Their Main Cause: Fossil-Fuel Emissions "Realists" argue that climate plans need to accommodate oil and gas, but that only perpetuates the climate crisis By Naomi Oreskes

Psychology This Change Could Reduce Police Brutality against Black Drivers like Tyre Nichols Cops—no matter their own race—are more confrontational toward Black drivers. Social psychologist Nicholas Camp describes ways to reduce police antagonism By Marla Broadfoot

Epidemiology COVID Rebound Can Happen Even without Paxlovid Concerns about Paxlovid rebound are preventing some doctors from prescribing the lifesaving drug and some high-risk patients from taking it By Lauren Gravitz

Climate Change Solving Cement's Massive Carbon Problem New techniques and novel ingredients can greatly reduce the immense carbon emissions from cement and concrete production By Mark Fischetti,Nick Bockelman,Wil V. Srubar

Animals How Scientists Are Using AI to Talk to Animals Portable sensors and artificial intelligence are helping researchers decode animal communication—and begin to talk back to nonhumans By Sophie Bushwick

Climate Change Rainmaking Experiments Boom Amid Worsening Drought Scientists and companies are scrambling to find new ways to squeeze more rain from the skies as climate change intensifies drought By Chelsea Harvey,Corbin Hiar,E&E News

Policy Black Inventor Garrett Morgan Saved Countless Lives with Gas Mask and Improved Traffic Lights In 1916 he strapped on his "safety hood" and dragged rescuers to safety, but racism prevented him from being hailed as a hero  By Leo DeLuca

Materials Science Scientists Made A New Kind Of Ice That Might Exist On Distant Moons The 'amorphous' solid is denser and could be water 'frozen in time' By Jonathan O'Callaghan,Nature magazine

History Scientists Decipher 57 Letters That Mary, Queen of Scots Wrote before Her Beheading In newly deciphered letters written from captivity in the late 1800s, deposed queen of Scotland Mary Stuart complained about her health and tried to negotiate her release By Stephanie Pappas

Climate Change 15 Million People Are at Risk from Bursting Glacial Lakes At least 15 million people worldwide live in the flood paths of lakes that form as mountain glaciers melt and that can abruptly burst their banks By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 29, Issue 3s

FROM THE ARCHIVE Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Must End Despite claims to the contrary, eliminating them would have a significant effect in addressing the climate crisis By Geoffrey Supran,Peter Erickson,Doug Koplow,Michael Lazarus,Peter Newell,Naomi Oreskes,Harro van Asselt | February 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Is it realistic to think you can solve a problem while continuing to do the very thing that caused it?" Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University.

WHAT WE'RE READING The Physics of James Joyce's Ulysses The 101-year-old novel shows that "physics and literature are not mutually exclusive." By Jennifer Ouellette | Ars Technica | Feb. 4, 2023

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