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Arctic Snow Is Shifting to Rain As Temperatures Rise

As the Arctic warms and transforms, many of its most iconic, frozen features are dissolving away. Glaciers are melting and…

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Why It Took So Long to Appreciate Female Birds’ Songs

Female birds sing. That is one of the revelations of our 2020 study on one of the most abundant, widespread,…

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Redo of a Famous Experiment on the Origins of Life Reveals Critical Detail Missed for Decades

Sarah Vitak: This is Scientific American’s 60 Second Science. I’m Sarah Vitak.  The question of how life came to be…

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Climate Pledges Still Not Enough to Keep Warming Below 2-Degree Limit

In the aftermath of the United Nations’ annual climate conference earlier this month, scientists have a sobering message: The world…

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Fearing Liability, U.S. Resists U.N. Fund for Climate Damages

The United States frequently cites fear of liability to explain why it has so far been reluctant to support creating…

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Watch These 5 Key Issues in 2022 to See if COP26 Climate Promises Are Kept

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. How much the…

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Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2021

Scientific American December 2021Innovations to help tackle societal challenges—especially climate changeThink of our planet’s grand challenges: Managing climate change. Reducing…

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Poem: 'The Way of Karma'

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New Mineral Discovered in Deep-Earth Diamond

A diamond that formed deep in the earth’s mantle contains a mineral never seen before in nature. The discovery is…

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COP26 Climate Pledges: What Scientists Think so Far

The first few days of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) have seen a flurry…

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