Meet Biden’s Climate Voice on Capitol Hill
Louisa Terrell has the tough job of moving Biden’s infrastructure package through Congress — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Category: Science
COVID Has Pushed Medical Research into Remote Trials, Benefiting Patients and Scientists
Using home monitoring and other efficiencies instead of dragging people into hospitals could improve clinical trials after the pandemic — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Fear Is the Key to Convincing Residents to Evacuate before a Storm
Safety officials need to use strong language and images to persuade the human psyche — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Fermilab Muon Measurement Might or Might Not Point to New Physics, But…
It was important either way, because the experiment that generated it was breathtakingly precise — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Stars That Race through Space at Nearly the Speed of Light
Some are blasted out of galaxies by interactions with black holes; others, which orbit supermassive black holes, can smash together in titanic explosions — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
COVID Innovations: Vaccines for Variants, Drone Deliveries, Print-Your-Own Shots, and More
Next-generation COVID-19 vaccines will not only tackle different versions of the virus but will provide solutions across the world at a fraction of the cost — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
You Can Taste Climate Change in this Awful Beer
New Belgium Brewing is selling a smoke-flavored brew as a sensory warning about agriculture’s troubles to come — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Penicillin Wasn’t Alexander Fleming’s First Major Discovery
It was lysozyme, an enzyme that attacks the cell walls of bacteria—and just as with the celebrated antibiotic, he found it through pure serendipity — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Goes Long Distance in Third Flight
The rotorcraft set performance records in its latest test, flying a total distance of 100 meters — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How 3-D Scanning is Reinventing Paleoanthropology
It lets us excavate ancient fossils while preserving information about the sediments that hold them—crucial to understanding their age, among other things — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com