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California Tests New Strategies to Prevent Deadly Wildfires
Authorities hope power cuts and brush clearing will reduce risks as the state enters peak fire season
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Policy
How to Get a Species Named after You
Being a celebrity or a friend of a zoologist helps. And if all else fails, cash is an option
Public Health
Kicking Climate Change: Wins for Health, the Economy and Security
Former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy talks with Scientific American’s Andrea Thompson about the widespread benefits of taking action against climate change.
Policy
Science Education Is Under Legislative Attack
More than a dozen half-baked bills in a number of states would weaken the teaching of evolution and other “controversial” topics
Policy
Med School without Cadavers?
Some medical schools are turning to virtual reality instead of dissection
Policy
Don’t Fear the Terminator
Artificial intelligence never needed to evolve, so it didn’t develop the survival instinct that leads to the impulse to dominate others
Policy
Can a Universal Basic Income Reduce Childhood Obesity?
Alaska’s experience suggests it can
CEO of Juul Steps Down; Company to Drop Ads
The e-cigarette maker’s announcement comes in the wake of a controversy over the marketing of its products to youth
French Program That Lampoons Trump’s Catchphrase Draws U.S. Scientists
France lures U.S.-based researchers after American withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement
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Global Promises to Reduce CO2 Are Falling Short of 1.5-Degree-C Warming Goal
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is trying to push countries to ratchet up their emissions reduction efforts
Prominent German Neuroscientist Committed Misconduct in “Brain Reading” Research
A German funding agency imposes strict sanctions on Niels Birbaumer, whose studies, it says, contained incomplete data—but Birbaumer stands by his work
Climate Change
How Christiana Figueres Saved the Planet
By harnessing “female energy,” Christiana Figueres convinced humanity to take on climate change
Policy
Women in Cybersecurity: Where We Are and Where We’re Going
Here’s how to bring gender equality to a thoroughly male-dominated field
Policy
New York’s Plans to Tackle Climate Change May Leave Some Residents Behind
The city is taking action to protect lower Manhattan’s waterfront while low-income residents in other boroughs fend for themselves
Space & Physics
Lunar Geology in 1969; Heaven “Located” in 1869
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American
4 Things to Watch at Next Week’s Climate Summit
U.N. chief António Guterres hopes to harness public opinion to push for more aggressive carbon reductions
Policy
The Problem with Failing to Admit We Don’t Know
Although numbers are often treated as cold, hard facts, we should be willing to acknowledge how uncertain they can be
Why Our Disabilities Make Us Better Scientists despite the Odds against Us
But the research world raises barriers to our full participation
Policy
Don’t Trust Scientists? Then Help Collect the Data
Citizen science has the potential to reduce data dishonesty
Climate Change
California Promises to Fight EPA Plan on Car Standards
The Trump Administration has said it will revoke the state’s ability to set its own air pollution limits
