Scientific American Content: Global

As Hurricane Milton barreled across Florida, it triggered dozens of tornadoes. Here’s how that process occurs

Decades after FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey stopped thalidomide from going on the market in the U.S., the legacy of the drug persists

Without more funding, FEMA may be forced to restrict spending and suspend rebuilding projects

Both presidential candidates would restrict immigration but Donald Trump would try to implement an extreme anti-immigrant agenda

An elegant matchmaking algorithm called Gale-Shapley can find the best possible pairings for everybody

As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida, people in recently storm-stricken areas grapple with the physical and mental health tolls of evacuating and seeking shelter

Hurricane Milton hit Florida as a major storm, bringing devastating storm surge and rainfall to the state

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to biochemist David Baker, and Google DeepMind scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for predicting protein shapes and functions— and for creating entirely new ones that can improve health and the environment

Florida is scrambling to clear storm-damaged areas before Hurricane Milton makes landfall

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is on the rise after a lull at the beginning of the COVID pandemic

Years after a nuclear disaster wiped out Fukushima’s agriculture, peach growers are banking on Harrods to sell the area’s recovery story

Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago

Downpours from hurricanes are worsening—and leaving even “climate havens” vulnerable.

Rwanda’s health minister says authorities are tracing every potential contact of the index case in the country’s outbreak of Marburg virus disease to reduce the risk of wider spread

A 2013 report from the World Bank placed the Tampa Bay area seventh on a list of the top 10 global cities facing the costliest damage from coastal floods

Hera will arrive in 2026 at Dimorphos, an asteroid deliberately struck by NASA’s DART spacecraft

Both Trump and Harris pledge to make drug prices affordable and health care accessible. Here’s how their policies differ

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was given to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for development of techniques that laid the foundation for revolutionary advances in artificial intelligence

Two injured sea creatures merged to form a “Franken-jelly”

New research dispels the notion that human beings can continue to radically extend their lifespan

Scientists reveal the identity of a cannibalized captain from the doomed Northwest Passage expedition of 1845 to 1848

Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump offer starkly different responses to gun violence

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was given to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of an important gene-manipulating mechanism in cells

We cover the spread of Marburg virus, a stem cell treatment for diabetes and the way dolphins smile in this week’s news roundup.

California’s lawsuit against Exxon is about ending the lie that most plastic is recyclable

With voting underway, election officials in flood-ravaged North Carolina must mail new ballots and replace destroyed polling places after Hurricane Helene

Experts say the effects of global warming are playing a greater role in where people decide to move

Claims of worlds orbiting Barnard’s star have been made before. But an advanced instrument could provide the breakthrough that finally confirms the star hosts a planetary system

A climate advocate learns firsthand on the price of climate change in our lives, and calls for voters to head off future disasters

Both U.S. presidential candidates voice support for innovation in AI, but Kamala Harris has been more outspoken about its risks to individuals

The night sky isn’t perfectly dark—instead it glows faintly, and the source isn’t exactly local

Today’s mathematicians grapple with higher-order mathematical questions and real-world applications.

People living near industrial facilities often have few details about the chemicals inside, which poses major risks when floods occur

Polls show an increased number of Black women voters back Kamala Harris. Her emphasis on maternal mortality, reproductive rights and gun control may be contributing

Only 2 percent of households in parts of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina that were flooded by Hurricane Helene can get insurance payments

 FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey saved American lives by refusing to approve thalidomide. But millions of pills had been sent to doctors in the U.S. for so-called clinical trials

Sooner or later a doomsday asteroid will wipe out most life on Earth—unless, that is, we prevent threatening space rocks from hitting us in the first place

A model suggests a massive uplift caused by a phenomenon called “river piracy” partly explains Everest’s impressive height

Whoever wins the 2024 presidential election will face heightened nuclear geopolitics, deadlines on nuclear deals with Russia and Iran and decisions on a $2-trillion weapons-modernization effort

Linguist and sociophonetician Nicole Holliday analyzes the language used by candidates in the recent presidential and vice presidential debates

Wiring diagram lays out connections between nearly 140,000 neurons and reveals new types of nerve cell

Hurricane Helene forced dozens of medical facilities across the southern U.S. to evacuate patients, underscoring the human costs of climate change

The average tropical cyclone in the U.S. ultimately causes about 7,000 to 11,000 excess deaths, new research finds

As Microsoft strikes a deal to restart a reactor at Three Mile Island to power AI, nuclear specialists weigh in on the unprecedented process

In a dense Republic of Congo rainforest, scientists have mapped a network of strangely open clearings where wild beasts go to eat and hang out

The presidential candidates have vastly divergent records on and plans for protecting access to reproductive health care, including abortion and IVF

Food science can explain why mozzarella melts like a dream while feta and ricotta don’t

Alternatives to Google Search include Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave Search and Ecosia

A new class of drugs treats pain at the periphery. Here’s what that could mean for those with chronic pain.

“Professor Pickleball” reveals the science behind the U.S.’s fastest-growing sport