Some scientists are confident that the immune system’s aggressive response is only part of the story | Continue reading
The country is headed for disaster as the pandemic devastates health services and livelihoods | Continue reading
The country is headed for disaster as the pandemic devastates health services and livelihoods | Continue reading
The Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed program is backing six efforts with the ambitious goal of delivering an effective vaccine by January | Continue reading
Despite calls for more rigorous clinical trials, the Food and Drug Administration has granted an emergency authorization for the therapy | Continue reading
"Backing is applied microbiology," according to the book Modernist Bread. During pandemic lockdowns, many people started baking their own bread. Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs talks about Modernist Bread, for which he was a writer and editor. … | Continue reading
At the moment, we can’t—so let’s adapt it | Continue reading
Nearly two dozen large blazes have burnt more than 1 million acres of the state | Continue reading
Innovations are blurring the lines between consumers and producers, amateurs and professionals, and laypeople and experts | Continue reading
Newly analyzed remains depict the scope of a devastating event | Continue reading
Mocking men who tote big guns or drive fast cars as “compensating” for their presumably inadequate endowment is sexist and toxic | Continue reading
An analysis of 391 skulls shows that birds evolved surprisingly slowly, compared with their dinosaur forerunners | Continue reading
Boris Johnson’s new campaign focuses on focus on personal responsibility rather than attacking poverty and inequality, the root causes of obesity | Continue reading
Letters to the editor from the April 2020 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
Those who argue that COVID-19 isn’t a real threat are mirroring bogus attacks on global warming and evolution | Continue reading
How quantum mechanics gives me a refuge from reality | Continue reading
Suicide rates have been rising for two decades in the U.S. Will the pandemic make things worse? | Continue reading
With no clear guidance from the federal government, schools are pursuing a mix of online and in-person classes | Continue reading
Researchers found extra bones within a 240-million-year-old ichthyosaur fossil—which they determined to be the ichthyosaur's last, possibly fatal, meal. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Letting the rich pay for science that interests them is a bad idea—even if they aren’t convicted sex offenders | Continue reading
Pandemic highlights for the week | Continue reading
The peak of the season just started, but already there have been as many storms as in an entire average season | Continue reading
In addition to trapping oil with booms, residents of Mauritius have evacuated endangered plants and animals | Continue reading
At one time this magazine tangled with the FBI, the Atomic Energy Commission and Joseph McCarthy | Continue reading
In the 1960s Martin Gardner helped to turn the artist M. C. Escher into a sensation | Continue reading
Deaths or excessive damage put Katrina, Maria, Harvey and other monikers out of circulation | Continue reading
This magazine launched a contest to prove, or disprove, the existence of ghosts | Continue reading
Among other things, they’re easier on the environment and more inclusive than in-person meetings | Continue reading
New research shows how a laser-based system can help detect mosquito movements | Continue reading
These winged pollinators appear to have emotions, but it’s an open question whether they subjectively experience feelings | Continue reading
Cheap and quick, they could move us toward normalcy before a vaccine is widely available | Continue reading
Cheap and quick, they could move us toward normalcy before a vaccine is widely available | Continue reading
Higher temperatures, rising flood risks and increased water stress mean facilities need to take additional resiliency measures | Continue reading
As flames once again rage across the state, officials embrace a counterintuitive firefighting approach | Continue reading
A new saliva-based diagnostic does not require a “brain-tickling” swab, and it can be used with a range of chemical reagents | Continue reading
Researchers have finally been able to determine just how much impervious surfaces exacerbate flood levels | Continue reading
Bringing students back into classrooms or keeping them home can both have negative consequences | Continue reading
It hinges on the U.S. remaining a global beacon for international STEM talent | Continue reading
It hinges on the country remaining a global beacon for international STEM talent | Continue reading
Beyond factors such as age and sex, underlying aspects of biology and society influence disease severity | Continue reading
Long, short, forward and back: Our concepts of time—and how we process it in the brain—are based on our understanding of physical space, with some surprising cultural variations | Continue reading
Aliens? Or a chunk of solid hydrogen? Which idea makes less sense? | Continue reading
Kevin Warwick wired his nervous system into the Internet and his wife; now he's out to become one with The Matrix | Continue reading
The 2020 aims on climate are more ambitious than in 2016, but don’t meet all of activists’ demands | Continue reading
Butterflies, fish and frogs sport rear end eyespots that reduce predation. Painting eye markings on cows similarly seems to ward off predators. | Continue reading
The car-sized object zoomed by just 1,830 miles away | Continue reading
Accountability, demilitarization and the transfer of responsibilities to social workers are needed to remake our overly antagonistic law-enforcement agencies | Continue reading