Scientific American Content: Global

1. What to Know about Measles as the Outbreak in Texas Ends and the School Year Begins

   Texas may have declared its measles outbreak over, but rising cases elsewhere and the return to school mean it could easily resurge

2. Second U.S. Malaria Case Not Tied to Travel Raises Fears of Local Transmission

   One-off cases of malaria in the U.S. may become more common as warming temperatures lead to booming mosquito populations

3. Tiny Probes Can Surf Sunlight to Explore Earth’s Mesosphere and Mars

   With no fuel or engines, tiny explorers will surf sun-warmed air alone to explore high in the skies of Earth and Mars

4. Four Remarkable Stories from the History of Math Behind Bars

   People in prisons and jails have contributed to some of the greatest ideas in mathematics

5. Nathan Lents’s New Book Explores How Animal Behavior and Evolution Challenge Binary Sex and Gender Norms

   Traditional biology has long ignored nature’s sexual diversity—but evolution tells a far more complex story.

6. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Discovers New Moon of Uranus

   Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranus’s rings that’s so small you could walk around it

7. Why Hurricanes like Erin Trigger Rip Currents Hundreds of Miles Away

   From Miami to Maine, the East Coast is under moderate or high rip current risk advisories because of Hurricane Erin

8. U.S. Cuts Antarctica’s Only Research Icebreaker Ship under Trump Budget Squeeze

   The National Science Foundation will stop operating the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker and slash polar science funding by 70 percent, devastating Antarctic research

9. How Plastics Went from a Sustainability Solution to an Environmental Crisis

   Synthetic polymers were supposed to free us from the limitations of our natural resources. Instead they led to an environmental crisis

10. How Scientists Finally Learned That Nerves Regrow—Even in the Adult Brain

    Long dismissed as impossible, nerve regrowth is offering new hope for healing injuries and treating neurodegeneration