Scientific American Content: Global

Utah’s Decision to Ban Fluoride Is a Bad Move for Kids

Becoming the first state to ban fluoride is going to cost Utah, both financially...

Google DeepMind Taught Itself to Play Minecraft

The Dreamer AI system of Google's DeepMind reached the milestone of mastering Mi...

Tornado Damage Surveys Are a Crucial Tool for Understan...

Damage surveys provide crucial information about when, where and how strong U.S....

FEMA to Halt Billions in Grants for Disaster Protection...

An internal FEMA memo says the agency is canceling future and existing grants th...

Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies

Just as tobacco companies knew they were poisoning people, today’s social media ...

The Kakeya Conjecture, a Decades-Old Math Problem, Is S...

For a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating an infinitely na...

There Are 4,000 Species of Native Bees in the U.S.

Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and...

How Many Rogue Planets Are in the Milky Way?

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their st...

What Happens When USAID’s Global Public Health Programs...

USAID is responsible for global health efforts that have saved the lives of mill...

The Uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, Targeted by...

Trump’s tariffs put a spotlight on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, w...

JWST Delivers Best-Yet Look at That Worrisome Asteroid

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially h...

Bonobo Calls Are More like Human Language Than We Thought

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property wi...

Xenolinguistics—the Study of Alien Languages—Helps to R...

Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first co...

Trump Staff Cuts Hollow Out Extreme Heat Programs

Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services have dealt a critical blo...

Go Inside a Mexican Wolf Recovery Project Whose Future ...

The critically endangered Mexican wolf was mounting a comeback, thanks to a cons...

JWST’s Fourth Year of Amazing Science Faces Funding Woes

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced am...

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