Scientific American Content: Global

A Key Step for Limiting the Global Temperature Rise to 1.5 Degrees Celsius

Rebecca M. Peters — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 16:00:00 GMT

The International Energy Agency needs to make that goal the centerpiece of its World Energy Outlook

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What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common

John Horgan — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 14:00:00 GMT

Theories that try to explain these big metaphysical mysteries fall short, making agnosticism the only sensible stance

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In Case You Missed It

Maddie Bender — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 13:00:00 GMT

Top news from around the world

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The Art of Pondering Earth's Distant Future

Vincent Ialenti — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:00:00 GMT

Stretching the mind across time can help us become more responsible planetary stewards and foster empathy across generations

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Suspect List Narrows in Mysterious Bird Die-Off

Maddie Bender — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:15:00 GMT

Here’s how researchers are zeroing in on the culprit

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Summer of Science Reading, Episode 2: Life beneath Our Feet

Deboki Chakravarti — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:00:00 GMT

In Science Book Talk, a new four-part podcast miniseries, host Deboki Chakravarti acts as literary guide to two science books that share a beautiful and sometimes deeply...

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The FDA Shouldn't Support a Ban on Kratom

Maia Szalavitz — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:00:00 GMT

The herbal supplement can be abused, but given the explosion in opioid deaths, eliminating this safer substitute will almost certainly lead to more deaths

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New DNA Blood Test Could Pinpoint Cancer's Source in the Body

Anna Goshua — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:45:00 GMT

The assay could also help evaluate organ transplants and fetal genetic disorders

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Paleoclimate Data Raise Alarm on Historic Nature of Climate Emergency

Katarina Zimmer — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 21:15:00 GMT

The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report uses data from our planet’s distant past to better understand current warming

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NASA Probe Finds Higher Chance of Asteroid Bennu Striking Earth

Meghan Bartels, SPACE.com — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 18:15:00 GMT

Using data from the OSIRIS-REx mission, scientists calculated slightly increased (but still low) odds the space rock will collide with our planet in the 2100s

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Are 'Green Banks' Really Better for the Environment?

Avery Ellfeldt, E&E News — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:15:00 GMT

Consumers can indeed lower their financial carbon footprint once they know how to navigate the hype

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Inspired by Chronic Illness, She Made Award-Winning Art about the Brain

Maddie Bender — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:00:00 GMT

Scientific American presents the winner and honorable mentions of the 11th annual Art of Neuroscience contest

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Crumbly Mars Rock, Not Hardware Flaws, Scuttled Perseverance's First Sample Attempt

Robin George Andrews — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:45:00 GMT

After an alarming failure, the rover is set to continue its mission to retrieve specimens for eventual return to Earth

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Astronomers Find an Unexpected Bumper Crop of Black Holes

Christopher Intagliata — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:00:00 GMT

In trying to explain the spectacular star trails of the star cluster Palomar 5, astronomers stumbled on a very large trove of black holes.

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Modern Mathematics Confronts Its White, Patriarchal Past

Rachel Crowell — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:00:00 GMT

Mathematicians want to think their field is a meritocracy, but bias, harassment and exclusion persist

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Martian Crust Could Sustain Life through Radiation

Nikk Ogasa — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:45:00 GMT

Meteorites reveal that so long as groundwater is present, the Martian subsurface is habitable

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Could the Infrastructure Bill Make Wildfires Worse?

Adam Aton, E&E News — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:00:00 GMT

The legislation provides billions of dollars for thinning forests in ways that some scientists think are wrongheaded

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How Quantum Computing Could Remake Chemistry

Jeannette M. Garcia — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:00:00 GMT

It will bring molecular modeling to a new level of accuracy, reducing researchers’ reliance on serendipity

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How Much Worse Will Thawing Arctic Permafrost Make Climate Change?

Jordan Wilkerson — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:15:00 GMT

Global warming is setting free carbon from life buried long ago in the Arctic’s frozen soils, but its impact on the climate crisis is unclear

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Exotic Four-Quark Particle Spotted at Large Hadron Collider

Davide Castelvecchi, Nature magazine — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 14:30:00 GMT

The rare tetraquark is one of dozens of nonelementary particles discovered at the accelerator and could help test theories about the strong nuclear force

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Let's Start Naming Climate-Related Disasters for Polluters and Their Enablers

Drew Shindell — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:00:00 GMT

The Marathon Oil Megadrought has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?

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Walling Off One Coastal Area Can Flood Another

Robin Meadows — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:45:00 GMT

Seawalls and levees may simply shift rising water elsewhere—often into disadvantaged communities

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The Ethics of Sending Humans to Mars

Nicholas Dirks — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:00:00 GMT

We need to avoid the mistakes European countries made during the age of colonization

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Here's How Climate Change Will Stress Your Homeland

Sara Schonhardt, E&E News — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:30:00 GMT

Hotter Asia, drier Alps, stormier U.S., saltier island nations

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Digital Heads Help Eyewitnesses Identify Suspects

Sophie Bushwick — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:30:00 GMT

Witnesses were more accurate when they interacted with 3-D models than when they looked at still photographs. And the models were less expensive than an in-person lineup

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