November 19, 20243 min readTrees Alone Can’t Stop Climate ChangeForests absorb planet-warming pollution, but world leaders shouldn’t include them in plans to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, a new study recommendsBy Chelsea Harvey & E&E NewsBeech Tree Forest in early...
Billions, perhaps trillions, of years from now, long after the sun has engulfed Earth, cosmologists expect the universe will end. Some wrestle with whether it is more likely to collapse under its weight in a big crunch or keep on...
Heart cockles come in many colours and host photosynthetic algae inside their shellsDakota McCoy A heart-shaped mollusc has evolved tiny windows that work like fibre-optic cables, the first known example in nature. Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa) are bivalve molluscs a...
The El Capitan supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryGarry McLeod/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The top spot in the league table of the world’s most powerful computers has changed hands, with one supercomputer built for US national security research ousting...
November 19, 20243 min readCuriosity, Horses and HypochondriaDiscovering weird new shapes, turning oil rigs into reefs and making the ocean absorb more greenhouse gasesBy Laura Helmuth Scientific American, December 2024Did you grow up around horses? If not, your parents or...
November 19, 20243 min readContributors to Scientific American’s December 2024 IssueWriters, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the storiesBy Allison Parshall Thomas FuchsAdvancesIllustrator Thomas Fuchs (above) says the weirder the assignment, the better. For more than a decade...
CURBING HUNGER PANGSI enjoyed “Turning Down the Food Noise” , Lauren J. Young’s article on the influence of satiety pathways on food intake and how glucagonlike peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists such as Wegovy can intervene successfully. In 2002 I...
November 19, 20243 min readDecember 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years AgoAlcohol in space; basking in the limelightBy Mark Fischetti1974, How Many Aces of Spades?: “After a brief glance at this display most people report seeing three....
To describe the destructive effects of intense health anxiety to his young doctors in training at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City, psychiatrist Brian Fallon likes to quote 19th-century English psychiatrist Henry Maudsley: “The sorrow which has...
The world we live in was built on horseback. Many people today rarely encounter horses, but this is a recent development. Only a few decades ago domestic horses formed the fabric of societies around the globe. Almost every aspect of...
