Scientific American Content: Global

1. The Super El Niño is already soaking the U.S. Expect more flooding to come

   This week Florida and the Four Corners region have been hammered by major rain events, swamping roads and washing away homes

2. Science advocates react to Democrats’ historic midterm rout: ‘It’s a new day in Washington’s

   Researchers and advocates say they hope the “blue wave” could signal more accountability after two years of attacks on science

3. Could SpaceX’s retirement of Falcon 9 spark a launch crisis?

   What happens when the most successful rocket in history stops flying? The world is about to find out

4. The polar vortex is about to go haywire

   “Everybody’s hair is on fire in the climate or meteorologist community”

5. What a historic ‘blue wave’ midterm means for climate action

   Democrats swept Congress and won in red states. Here are the races that matter most for decarbonization, disasters and data centers

6. NASA’s Swift telescope plunges back to Earth

   The observatory had spent decades studying powerful cosmic explosions and was the target of an unsuccessful rescue mission earlier this year

7. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is wobbly—scientists have a fix that could reveal new alien worlds

   By modeling the James Webb Space Telescope’s tiny movements, a new technique can reveal up to 15 times fainter alien worlds

8. How does mental fatigue begin in the brain?

   New findings could help explain why cognitive exhaustion feels so crummy

9. How the tiny soybean took over the American diet

    How soybeans became the hidden ingredient powering the U.S.

10. How hackers are turning grocery store freezers into heaters

    By hijacking built-in defrost controls, attackers have spoiled millions of euros’ worth of food across Europe. U.S. military bases may have been hit, too