The arrest of a Harvard scientist earlier this year on charges of lying about working for the Chinese government was a wake-up call | Continue reading
We must begin moving beyond militarism, as Martin Luther King urged more than 50 years ago | Continue reading
Mussels in the lakes, themselves invasive species, may not be able to outcompete Asian carp for food, as previously thought | Continue reading
From Frederick Douglass to George Floyd, photography has been key for racial justice, but cameras also were used to hurt | Continue reading
Originally published in February 1900 | Continue reading
Management researcher Modupe Akinola explains on how stereotypes hurt Black Americans and what we can do to counter them | Continue reading
Over the past decade, the number of encounters between humans and sharks swimming off the coast of California has risen dramatically . Chris Lowe, director of the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach, says this summer is shaping up to be a major year for these sha … | Continue reading
Rates of childhood immunization have fallen across the U.S., raising the risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks | Continue reading
A traditional Diné storyteller explains how disadvantage and injustice have shaped her people’s encounter with COVID-19 | Continue reading
Lobsters, birds and some primates use quarantine to ward off infections | Continue reading
Lobsters, birds and some primates use quarantine to ward off infections | Continue reading
Velvety free-tail bats produce sounds that help them locate insect prey, but that simultaneously identify them to their companions. | Continue reading
The significant growth in such properties has come despite billions spent to protect them | Continue reading
Originally published in February 1950 | Continue reading
A new generation of orbiters, landers and rovers will study the Red Planet as never before, setting the stage for returning pristine samples to Earth | Continue reading
It's known as the "curse of dimensionality," and it's why our estimates of how a disease will behave will always have imprecision | Continue reading
Different mammals demonstrate common patterns in brain connections. But our own species has a few twists of its own | Continue reading
Old, big trees are dying faster than in the past, leaving younger, less biodiverse forests worldwide that store less carbon. | Continue reading
The company recently overruled its scientific fact-checking group, which had flagged information as misleading | Continue reading
The ‘quasiparticles’ defy the categories of ordinary particles and herald a potential way to build quantum computers | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1894 | Continue reading
What can the pandemic teach us about how people respond to adversity? | Continue reading
A pioneer in the fight against HIV reflects on the dangers of excess optimism about a coronavirus vaccine | Continue reading
Eric Schwitzgebel investigates an eclectic assortment of mysteries with (unintentional?) irony and humor | Continue reading
A single equation describes the shapes of stingers, spikes and spines throughout the natural world | Continue reading
Strange and probabilistic, physics at the smallest scales is driving innovation and research into the nature of reality. In this eBook, we examine the latest mind-bending studies in quantum mechanics, including theoretical mysteries such as entanglement, real-world applications, … | Continue reading
Siri, Alexa and other programs sometimes have trouble with the accents and speech patterns of people from many underrepresented groups | Continue reading
The once-common native guava has nearly vanished—killed off by an invasive fungus that arrived just 10 years ago. Other plant species may soon follow | Continue reading
Letters to the editor from the March 2020 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
Pandemic highlights for the week | Continue reading
Such a system could bypass the fiber-optic cables that can be severed when storms down utility poles | Continue reading
A silk-based substance could lead to new wearables | Continue reading
Statues are ideological powerhouses that compress whole systems of authority into bodies of bronze or marble | Continue reading
The stomach contests of young great white sharks showed that they spend a lot of time patrolling the sea floor for meals. | Continue reading
Systemic inequities such as credit scores mean Black home and business owners receive fewer federal relief loans than white ones | Continue reading
Originally published in June 1909 | Continue reading
By exploiting the wave-and-particle-like nature of light, a new technique offers the best of both worlds | Continue reading
It's ungrammatical, plus it suggests we’re an exotic species—but it can also remind people that STEM isn’t just for men | Continue reading
Dental practices are taking measures to keep patients safe. Some people are wary, however | Continue reading
Political scientists analyzed congressional tweets and observed how Republicans and Democrats responded differently to the virus. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
The new analysis could help property owners, municipalities and financial institutions better prepare for future inundation | Continue reading
Evidence gathered in sexual-assault cases could catch more criminals—if anyone bothered to look | Continue reading
Originally published in June 1959 | Continue reading
A decades-long dispute over how much carbon, nitrogen and oxygen lie within our closest star has implications for the entire universe | Continue reading
Conservation projects in the developing world should invest in local scientific talent and infrastructure | Continue reading
If confirmed, the controversial result could open new vistas on cosmic collisions | Continue reading