Ancient marine fossil trove, tastier veg, more dust storms

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May 10, 2023

Paleontology 462-Million-Year-Old Fossil Trove Holds Miniature World of Marine Creatures Paleontologists have uncovered a miniature world of sea creatures whose tiny guts, eyes and even brains remain visible 462 million years after they perished By Jack Tamisiea

Reproduction A 19th-Century Obscenity Law Is Being Used Again to Limit Abortion Recent rulings on the abortion pill cite the Comstock Act, a 150-year-old law that’s still on the books By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis | 08:45

Food Tweaking Vegetables' Genes Could Make Them Tastier--And You'll Get to Try Them Soon Flavor is a tricky target, but technology and powerful genetic techniques are making it more feasible to improve the taste of vegetables By Meghan Bartels

Climate Change More Frequent Dust Storms Could Be in Our Future A combination of climate change and unsustainable agricultural practices could lead to Dust Bowl–like conditions By Christian Elliott

Quantum Physics Physicists Create Long-Sought Topological Quantum States Exotic particles called nonabelions could fix quantum computers’ error problem By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Oceans Some Crabs Are Losing Their Sense of Smell as Oceans Acidify Commercially valuable Dungeness crabs lose their sense of smell as the ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide and becomes more acidic By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 5

FROM THE ARCHIVE When the Sea Saved Humanity Shortly after Homo sapiens arose, harsh climate conditions nearly extinguished our species. The small population that gave rise to all humans alive today may have survived by exploiting a unique combination of resources along the southern coast of Africa By Curtis W. Marean | November 2012

WHAT WE'RE READING The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea   By Porter Fox | The New York Times | May 9, 2023

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