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Readers Respond to the November 2023 Issue

Readers Respond to the November 2023 Issue

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 35

Letters to the editors for the November 2023 issue of Scientific American

When Hurricanes Strike, Climate Change Dominates Social Media

When Hurricanes Strike, Climate Change Dominates Social...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 56

Tweets about climate change increase 80 percent when a hurricane hits and triple...

The False Promise of Carbon Capture as a Climate Solution

The False Promise of Carbon Capture as a Climate Solution

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 30

Fossil-fuel companies use captured carbon dioxide to extract more fossil fuels, ...

March 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

March 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 31

Hashish addiction; a pension for Madame Curie

Changing Car Culture Can Benefit Our Health and Our Planet

Changing Car Culture Can Benefit Our Health and Our Planet

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 35

We need to rethink the American love affair with the automobile and redesign cit...

Bouncing Bubbles Boost Boiling

Bouncing Bubbles Boost Boiling

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 33

A new surface uses tiny gaps to supercharge bubble formation to transfer heat

Poem: 'Want'

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 31

Science in meter and verse

Fear of predators may have helped us conceptualise the idea of zero

Fear of predators may have helped us conceptualise the ...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 52

A fear of predators may have helped many animals recognise when they weren't the...

Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to life on Earth

Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to ...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 58

Cosmic dust grains may be small, but they are mighty – it turns out dust is cruc...

Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-level intelligence

Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-level...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 31

As part of a lawsuit against OpenAI, billionaire Elon Musk has asked a court to ...

Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 29

This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is...

UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusion project

UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusi...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 43

Since Brexit, the UK no longer has access to ITER, the world's largest nuclear f...

Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine has been overhyped?

Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine has ...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 47

23andMe's DNA test was once named "invention of the year", but now the company i...

Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon in the ocean

Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon in th...

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 38

When the faecal matter produced by plankton sinks, it carries carbon from shallo...

NASA Ames Astrogram – January/February 2024

NASA Ames Astrogram – January/February 2024

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 35

Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed by Rache...

1 in 8 people worldwide has obesity

1 in 8 people worldwide has obesity

SIN Mar 1, 2024 0 27

Between 1990 and 2022, obesity rates more than doubled among adults and quadrupl...

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