‘SuperLab’ Will Test U.S. Power Grid Against Climate Disasters
The Energy Department is launching an initiative to mimic climate disasters and other threats against the power gridDamaged utility poles after Hurricane Delta made landfall in Louisiana, U.S. Credit: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesCLIMATEWIRE |Â The Energy Department is creating a "SuperLab" to test the electric grid by using simulated climate disasters. The initiative, to be launched next
The Jackson Water Crisis Didn’t Need to Happen
Cases of bottled water are handed out at a Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition distribution site on August 31, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson is experiencing a third day without reliable water service after river flooding caused the main treatment facility to fail. Credit: Brad Vest/Getty ImagesLast summer, Jackson, Miss.’s public water system collapsed. Residents (including
More Hospitals Are Creating Police Forces
ATLANTA — When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician. As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations. But that day in spring 2021, as Destiny intervened, for several minutes the patient punched, kicked, and bit
Hawaii Has Permafrost, and Scientists Are Racing to Study It before It’s Gone
Permafrost can—incongruously—be found in Hawaii, but surveys show it has been shrinking over time, in part because of climate changeA coat of snow surrounds the Mauna Kea Observatory on the Big Island, Hawaii. Credit: Sakkawokkie/Getty ImagesCLIMATEWIRE | Balmy, tropical Hawaii sounds like the last place on Earth one might expect to find snow and ice. Yet the tiptops
Is Time Travel Even Possible?
Warp to planet Earth. Credit: Nickpanya/Getty Images; Elements provided by NASA; Title animation by Kelso HarperTwo SciAm editors duke it out to see if wormholes and multiverses could in fact exist.Clara Moskowitz: We’re here today to talk about time travel. A perennial – dare I say, timeless–topic of science fiction, but is it possible? Is there any
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