On Election Day, Vote for Candidates with Science-Based Policies, Not Politicians Who Ignore Evidence

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November 07, 2022

Politics On Election Day, Vote for Candidates with Science-Based Policies, Not Politicians Who Ignore Evidence Some office seekers have positions based on research and facts, whereas others stand on assumptions and bias By The Editors

Climate Change Five Tensions That Could Derail the COP 27 Climate Summit Set against a backdrop of severe weather disasters, the COP 27 climate summit is colliding with soaring energy costs, food insecurity and a looming recession By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Climate Change See How Much Climate Change Has Cost Different Countries Low-income nations bear the brunt of costs from climate change By Andrea Thompson,Amanda Montañez

Astronomy Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it By Rebecca Boyle

Climate Change In a First, U.N. Climate Summit Will Discuss Climate Reparations For the first time, the formal agenda of the U.N. climate talks will include discussion on how rich nations should pay poorer nations for the unavoidable impacts of climate change By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Health Care How Medical Systems Can Help People Vote Hospitals and health care workers are making voter engagement a part of whole-person health care By Ilan Shapiro,Shweta Namjoshi,Olivia S. Morris

Climate Change What Scientists Are Watching at the COP27 Climate Summit At the COP 27 climate summit, countries will grapple with how to pay for loss and damage from global warming and how to bolster pledges to cut emissions By Jeff Tollefson,Nature magazine

Policy News Briefs from around the World: November 2022 The beginnings of agriculture in Turkey, the bitter origins of watermelon, a giant deep-sea isopod found in Mexico and more in this month's Quick Hits By Fionna M. D. Samuels

Politics How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence Pundits are weaponizing disgust to fuel violence, and it's affecting our humanity By Bryn Nelson

Evolution Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted By Jeremy DeSilva

Privacy What You Need to Know About Iran's Surveillance Tech Scientific American tech editor Sophie Bushwick explains how Iran is using surveillance tech against vulnerable citizens.  By Sophie Bushwick,Tulika Bose | 05:42

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