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“Damage from the Charles Koch Floods along the Missouri River are being compounded by heavy rains from Hurricane Inhofe.” A proposal to name climate disasters after polluters and people who have enabled them. | Commentaryhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lets-start-naming-climate-related-disasters-for-polluters-and-their-enablers/ …

Holding warming to 1.5 degrees C poses significant economic and technical challenges, but the alternative would be a less habitable planet.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-key-step-for-limiting-the-global-temperature-rise-to-1-5-degrees-celsius/ …

Here's what life in Finland could be like in 5710 CE, 12,021 CE or 35,012 CE. An anthropologist says speculating about people who will inhabit the future can help us be better planetary stewards today.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-art-of-pondering-earths-distant-future/ …

“I hate going to conferences because someone says something hurtful or harmful to me almost every time.” Mathematicians want to think their field is a meritocracy, but bias, harassment and exclusion persist. (By @writesRCrowell)https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/modern-mathematics-confronts-its-white-patriarchal-past/ …

Meteorites reveal that so long as groundwater is present, the Martian subsurface is habitable.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/martian-crust-could-sustain-life-through-radiation/ …

In trying to explain the spectacular star trails of the star cluster Palomar 5, astronomers stumbled on a very large trove of black holes. https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/astronomers-find-an-unexpected-bumper-crop-of-black-holes/ …

The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report uses data from our planet’s distant past to better understand current warming.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/paleoclimate-data-raise-alarm-on-historic-nature-of-climate-emergency/ …

If the possibility of an asteroid called Bennu slamming into Earth a lifetime from now was keeping you up at night, NASA scientists think you can rest a little easier.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-probe-finds-higher-chance-of-asteroid-bennu-striking-earth/ …

See the winner and honorable mentions of the 11th annual Art of Neuroscience contest.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inspired-by-chronic-illness-she-made-award-winning-art-about-the-brain/ …

After an alarming failure, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is set to continue its mission to retrieve specimens for eventual return to Earth.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crumbly-mars-rock-not-hardware-flaws-scuttled-perseverances-first-sample-attempt …

Quantum computing will bring molecular modeling to a new level of accuracy, reducing researchers’ reliance on serendipity.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-quantum-computing-could-remake-chemistry/ …

Opinion: Hurricane Dorian might better have been named for an oil or coal company, or for a politician who denies climate change.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lets-start-naming-climate-related-disasters-for-polluters-and-their-enablers/ …

“The infrastructure package, as written, is wrongheaded on so many levels. It’s a climate change nightmare.”https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-the-infrastructure-bill-make-wildfires-worse/ …

Climate scientists are unsure how much carbon will be released from permafrost and when, which is reflected in the wide range of estimates provided by this week’s IPCC report.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-worse-will-thawing-arctic-permafrost-make-climate-change/ …

The rare tetraquark is one of dozens of non-elementary particles discovered at the accelerator, and could help test theories about the strong nuclear force.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exotic-four-quark-particle-spotted-at-large-hadron-collider/ …

Can the success of rapid vaccine development be repeated again in the future? [Sponsored by @SabinVaccine]https://www.scientificamerican.com/custom-media/vaccine-lessons-from-covid-could-help-prevent-future-pandemics/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sacm_sabin&utm_content=link-post …