Share this on WhatsApp Scientific American August 2020 Researchers have finally been able to determine just how much impervious surfaces exacerbate flood levels Blockbuster flooding events such as Hurricane Harvey grab headlines, but urban flooding is a routine—and growing—problem: in a 2018 report, 83 percent of municipal stormwater and flood managers surveyed in the U.S. […]
Share this on WhatsApp Scientific American October 2020 Letters to the editor from the June 2020 issue of Scientific American CALCULATING CATASTROPHE “What Should Carbon Cost?” by Gilbert E. Metcalf, is unsuccessful in answering the question of how to calculate the most appropriate carbon tax rate. The uncertainties are too great. And probable impacts of […]
Share this on WhatsApp The human brain is hardwired to map our surroundings. This trait is called spatial memory—our ability to remember certain locations and where objects are in relation to one another. New findings published today in Scientific Reports suggest that one major feature of our spatial recall is efficiently locating high-calorie, energy-rich food. […]
