Scientific American Content: Global

1. Hantavirus treatments are coming, but funding is holding them back

   There is no cure for the hantavirus that has so far sickened at least nine people and killed three of them on a cruise ship outbreak, but several therapies have shown promise in animal studies

2. Ivermectin prescriptions spiked after Mel Gibson touted it for cancer on Joe Rogan’s podcast

   There is no hard evidence that ivermectin can treat cancer, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying it

3. Trump’s FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigns

   Makary, a face of Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, oversaw the embattled agency as it dealt with vaping, abortion and other issues

4. Math reveals the one game of chance you should always accept

   Probability theory and the Saint Petersburg paradox can help you determine whether the stakes of a game are too great

5. See SpaceX Starship V3 megarocket on the launchpad as it gears up for its next test flight

   This test flight comes at a pivotal moment for Elon Musk’s SpaceX as the company pushes to go public this year and show it’s ready for NASA’s planned 2027 Artemis III

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6. China’s Yangtze River has been ‘pirating’ water from the Yellow River for more than a million years, scientists reveal

   For the last 1.7 million years, China’s Yangtze River has been stealing water from the Yellow River, new research shows

7. PCOS just got a new name—here’s what to know

   A multiyear effort to rename polycystic ovary syndrome finally revealed the condition’s new name: polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome

8. NASA’s Apollo moon missions relied on this computer scientist and differential equations

   Margaret Hamilton designed safety features for NASA inspired in part by her four-year-old

9. Gemstones on Mars—why the Red Planet could be harboring rubies, opals, and more

   NASA’s Mars rovers have found traces of minerals akin to those that make up precious gems on Earth. But their appearance and abundance on Mars is likely very different, experts say

10. Is the U.S. in a new era of political violence? Experts say it’s complicated

    Researchers who study political violence say that the U.S. is in a period of more intense political rhetoric, but there have been far darker periods in the nation’s history