Australia's Plague of Mice Is Devastating and Could Get a Lot Worse

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June 21, 2021

Environment Australia's Plague of Mice Is Devastating and Could Get a Lot Worse Drought and extreme rainfall led to an infestation in the nation's farming areas By Tess Joosse

Public Health New Coronavirus Variants Are Urgently Being Tracked around the World Genomic sequencing efforts are limited in developing countries, but scientists are mobilizing to help By Charles Schmidt

Space Maybe the Aliens Really Are Here But if so, it's probably in the form of robotic probes—something both UFO enthusiasts and SETI scientists should be able to agree on By John Gertz

Math A Modest Proposal: Let's Change Earth's Orbit What's the worst that could happen? By Maddie Bender

Public Health COVID, Quickly, Episode 9: Delta Variant, Global Vaccine Shortfalls, Beers for Shots Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 05:41

Policy & Ethics Some Medical Examiners Say Sickle Cell Trait Causes Sudden Death--They're Wrong The genetic factor that contributed most to the deaths of 47 Black men in police custody was the color of their skin, not the contents of their red blood cells By A. Kyle Mack,Rachel S. Bercovitz,Hannah Lust

Biology Mockingbirds Are Better Musicians Than We Thought Their complex songs have striking similarities to Beethoven, Tuvan throat singing, a Disney musical and Kendrick Lamar By David Rothenberg

Environment National Park Nature Walks, Episode 7: Into the Wilderness by Canoe Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist and audiophile, brings you inches away from a multitude of creatures, great and small, amid the sonic grandeur of nature. You may not be easily able to access these places amid the pandemic, but after you take this acoustic journey, you will be longing to get back outside. Strap on some headphones, find a quiet place and prepare to experience a thunderstorm—and a lazy day of waiting that storm out—inside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. Catch additional episodes in the series here.  By Jacob Job | 28:50

Environment The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth Even "sustainable" technologies such as electric vehicles and wind turbines face unbreachable physical limits and exact grave environmental costs By Chirag Dhara,Vandana Singh

Public Health Coronavirus News Roundup: June 5 to June 18 Pandemic highlights for the past two weeks By Robin Lloyd

Neurological Health Could Mitochondria Be the Key to a Healthy Brain? Some researchers suspect these bacterial ancestors living within our cells may contribute to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders By Diana Kwon,Knowable Magazine

Behavior & Society How End-of-Life Doulas Help Ease the Final Transition We are your personal advocate, cheerleader, companion, guide, ear, rock By Virginia Chang

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FROM THE ARCHIVE It's Never Aliens--until It Is 2017 was a banner year for scientists seeking aliens—even though they (apparently) didn't find any By Lee Billings | January 2018

QUOTE OF THE DAY "How very much more difficult would it be for ET to decode humans? Even if it has been watching episodes of I Love Lucy that have been leaking out into space since that show was first broadcast, it may still not understand them." John Gertz, president of the Foundation for Investing in Research on SETI Science and Technology, Scientific American

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