How Warming Upended One of Greenland's Most Stable Glaciers

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April 21, 2023

Climate Change How Warming Upended One of Greenland's Most Stable Glaciers Greenland’s Steenstrup Glacier doubled its annual ice loss in just a few years, thanks to warm ocean water By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Conservation This Astoundingly Simple Ancient Technique Is Helping to Beat Back Drought Amid a warming world, these conservationists have brought back a very old and very low-tech drought-busting practice and they are getting results. By Kit R. Roane,Retro Report

Animals How Do Birds Know When to Migrate? Lengthening days set off a cascade of events in migratory birds that culminates in the birth of a clutch of chicks By Meghan Bartels

Water Ongoing Development Is Part of the Colorado River Problem Using “slow water” methods can make the Colorado River Basin and its people more resilient By Erica Gies

Drug Use Methadone Maintenance versus Synthetic Heaven: Inside the Historic Fight over Heroin Treatment In the 1970s Marie Nyswander thought that she had finally found a long-term treatment for heroin addiction, but not everyone agreed—including some of the people she was trying to help By Katie Hafner,Carol Sutton Lewis,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Renewable Energy Renewable Energy Is Charging Ahead Renewable energy has seen considerable growth in recent years, but there is a long way to go to achieve a clean energy future that averts the worst effects of the climate crisis By Andrea Thompson

Pollution Biden Marks Earth Day with New Environmental Justice Orders The president is creating an Office of Environmental Justice and expanding federal protections for communities that have been historically overburdened by pollution By Jean Chemnick,E&E News

Arts How My AI Image Won a Major Photography Competition Boris Eldagsen submitted an AI-generated image to a photography contest as a “cheeky monkey” and sparked a debate about AI’s place in the art world By Allison Parshall

Neuroscience How Our Team Overturned the 90-Year-Old Metaphor of a 'Little Man' in the Brain Who Controls Movement A pillar of every neuroscience textbook, the classic “homunculus” has just gone through a radical revision By Nico U.F. Dosenbach

Arts AI Can't Solve This Famous Murder Mystery Puzzle The 1934 puzzle book Cain’s Jawbone stumped all but a handful of humans. Then AI took the case By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

Food The Science of Melting Chocolate Researchers used an artificial tongue to understand how chocolate changes from a solid to a smooth emulsion By Clara Moskowitz,David Cheney

Climate Change Environmental Policies Must Manage Climate Change and Biodiversity as One Biodiversity loss and climate change are two sides of the same coin. Why can’t we treat them that way? By Pamela McElwee

Drug Use Over-the-Counter Narcan Is a Small Win in the Overdose Crisis. We Need More Requiring a prescription for all forms of naloxone holds the overdose-reversing medication hostage, kept from millions of Americans who should carry it in their purses and back pockets By Erin Russell

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 5

FROM THE ARCHIVE Antarctica's Collapse Could Begin Even Sooner Than Anticipated Two expeditions to the Thwaites Ice Shelf have revealed that it could splinter apart in less than a decade, hastening sea-level rise worldwide By Douglas Fox | November 2022

WHAT WE'RE READING Control Issues GISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes. Peter Bogner, its perplexing creator and overseer, may be jeopardizing its future By Martin Enserink and Jon Cohen | Science | April 19, 2023

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