Science in meter and verse | Continue reading
Dark matter has turned out to be more elusive than physicists had hoped | Continue reading
A sweeping novel about a war-torn future explores personhood and identity | Continue reading
A new biography of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt celebrates meaning making in science | Continue reading
How we’ll learn more about dark matter, quantum gravity and substitutes for lab animals | Continue reading
Mysterious Mercury; spiders predict the weather | Continue reading
Contrary to stereotypes of the doddering elderly, research shows that half of people older than age 70 stay mentally sharp | Continue reading
Science means being able to change your mind in light of new evidence | Continue reading
A new book about the art and science of listening explores our sonic universe | Continue reading
Letters to the editors for the April 2024 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
A dishonest creationist debating tactic shouldn’t go unchallenged in American life. Or in national politics | Continue reading
August’s supermoon will be the first of four supermoons in a row | Continue reading
As Democrats convene in Chicago to make official their presidential and vice presidential nominees, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz together are raising the prominence of health care as a 2024 election issue | Continue reading
Tanager-1 is the first in a series of satellites that aim to pinpoint major emitters of carbon dioxide and methane, major greenhouse gases | Continue reading
Dosing errors in the medication semaglutide, prescribed as Wegovy and Ozempic, can cause severe or prolonged gastrointestinal issues that require medical attention | Continue reading
As bird flu spreads in cats, cows and other animals, it has more opportunity to adapt to easily infect humans | Continue reading
Prevention is key to health and wellness. Don’t wait too late to have these simple, essential, medical devices on hand | Continue reading
A new Greenland map suggests how geology might shift and twist below the ice | Continue reading
Cosmic surveys suggest the force pulling the universe apart might not be constant after all | Continue reading
James Cameron takes us behind the scenes and beneath the waves in a discussion of the new National Geographic show OceanXplorers on today’s episode of Science Quickly. | Continue reading
Fruit seems riper when it is wrapped in a net that matches its optimal color, such as a really orangey orange | Continue reading
Redistributing food to food banks before it’s tossed or wasted doesn’t just fight hunger—such efforts also fight climate change | Continue reading
More people than we thought who are in comas or similar states can hear what is happening around them, a study shows. | Continue reading
Global warming made hot, dry weather that fuels wildfires more likely in places such as Canada, Greece and the Amazon rainforest last year, new research says | Continue reading
A new type of mpox has infected thousands in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African countries, but vaccines and treatments are hard to come by | Continue reading
Why a mathematician thought this infinite series explained how God created the universe | Continue reading
Foodborne illnesses such as E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria and Norovirus can make you seriously sick. Here’s how to protect yourself | Continue reading
To stop putting off tasks, think about the positive | Continue reading
Surging solar activity means enormous sunspots are in the space-weather forecast. Here’s how to view them safely | Continue reading
Here’s what the team at Science Vs learned about prostates and pleasure in its quest to understand the “male G-spot.” | Continue reading
New evidence points to a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer solar system as the culprit for Earth’s most recent mass extinction | Continue reading
Carpenter ants carry out lifesaving amputations on their colony siblings to save them | Continue reading
Internal records show the U.S. Postal Service has tried to get workers out of air-conditioned offices. The allegations come one year after the agency was accused of falsifying heat-training records | Continue reading
252 million years ago, tardigrades may have escaped extinction using this one weird trick | Continue reading
A barber shaves all men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself? Mathematics offers explanations for this and other curious contradictions | Continue reading
Misconceptions that eating disorders mostly afflict white, affluent, young females have led to disparities in the treatment of these deadly diseases | Continue reading
A Google experiment to improve stoplights shows early positive results. But AI-assisted software won’t replace human traffic engineers just yet | Continue reading
A highly robust brain-computer interface boasts low error rates and a durability that allows a user to talk all day long | Continue reading
Coronal mass ejections from the sun sparked dazzling auroras that were visible from the ground and from space | Continue reading
New shipping regulations set limits on sulfur in maritime fuel, reducing harmful pollution but inadvertently ceasing a cooling effect on Earth’s climate | Continue reading
Launching in late 2024, the Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight to explore the planet's polar regions | Continue reading
A new analysis of Stonehenge’s “Altar Stone” suggests Neolithic people walked or sailed some 500 miles to transport the six-ton boulder | Continue reading
An underground Martian ocean could hold enough liquid to cover the Red Planet with a mile of water | Continue reading
The possibility of liquid water beneath the surface of Saturn’s moon Mimas may offer clues to how such seas form, and another spot to search for life | Continue reading
The novel physics of biomolecular condensates could explain how these droplets help cells do their jobs | Continue reading
The space junk polluting low-Earth orbit sometimes makes its way to Earth. Here’s how one astronomer responded when SpaceX debris fell on a nearby farm. | Continue reading
New techniques are helping forecasters spot storms that could develop into dangerous hurricanes earlier than ever | Continue reading
Many experts criticize the FDA’s recent negative ruling on MDMA therapy for PTSD, saying the agency ignored solid overall results from clinical trials | Continue reading