How AI Facial Recognition Is Helping Conserve Pumas
Researchers tricked out conventional camera traps to snap headshots of Puma concolor, revealing a better way to track the elusive species. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Roe v. Wade Was Overturned. Here"s how Your Phone Could Be Used to Spy on You.
From figuring out how often you go to the bathroom to potentially being used to prosecute you, your trusty smartphone might not be so trusty in a post-Roe world. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Why Was Afghanistan"s Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake So Devastating?
Famed seismologist Lucy Jones explains how building methods and quake dynamics interact—and what to do about the problem. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Deadly Heat Wave"s Lesson: "This Is the Future We All Face"
After last year’s heat crisis, Pacific Northwest emergency managers, doctors and even transit systems are using lessons learned to prepare for this summer -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
How Abortion Misinformation and Disinformation Spread Online
With reproductive rights being dismantled, social media companies need to stop propagating lies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Have Devastating Health and Financial Impacts, Landmark Study Showed
The researcher who led the Turnaway Study explains how being denied an abortion had lasting negative effects on those who were forced to carry their pregnancies to term and on their children -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Primary Care Providers Can Help Safeguard Abortion
As abortion access becomes more limited in the U.S., primary care providers can and should provide these services to people who need them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
How AI Facial Recognition is Helping Conserve Pumas
Researchers tricked out conventional camera traps to snap headshots of Puma concolor, revealing a better way to track the elusive species. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
New Maps of Milky Way Are Biggest and Best Yet
The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission is sparking a frenzy of exciting new astrophysics research -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Poliovirus Detected in London Sewage, U.K. Officials Warn
The detected strain can sometimes cause severe disease in people who are not vaccinated against polio -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Prescribed Burns Are More Dangerous because of Climate Change
But the technique must remain in the firefighting toolbox, a new U.S. Forest Service report says -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Research on Gun Violence Has Been Thwarted: It"s Now More Urgent Than Ever
We need to make firearms safer, and to do that, we need more robust research funding -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs"s Life
A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Spray-On, Rinse-Off Food "Wrapper" Can Cut Plastic Packaging
The coating deters microorganisms to fight both food waste and foodborne illness -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Gaia"s Multibillion-Star Map of the Milky Way Keeps Getting Better
The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission is sparking a frenzy of exciting new astrophysics research -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Controversy Grows Over whether Mars Samples Endanger Earth
Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world’s biosphere -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
We Can"t Let Monkeypox Turn into a Repeat of COVID
Will governments apply lessons learned from COVID to this latest viral outbreak? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Sequencing Cat Genomes Could Help Breed Healthier Kitties
A study of more than 11,000 felines reveals the benefits of genetic testing before breeding -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Poliovirus Detected in London Sewage, UK Officials Warn
The detected strain can sometimes cause severe disease in people who are not vaccinated against polio -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Prescribed Burns Are More Dangerous Because of Climate Change
But the technique must remain in the firefighting toolbox, a new U.S. Forest Service report says -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»