Originally published in November 1905 | Continue reading
Tests reveal that an imbalance of charge buildup can trigger airplane lightning | Continue reading
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Advancing the technology for preparing our food | Continue reading
Events with extreme temperatures and humidity are occurring twice as often now as they were 40 years ago | Continue reading
Higher temperatures and wetter weather may spur soil microbes to release more carbon into the atmosphere | Continue reading
Originally published in February 1967 | Continue reading
Unified theory describes formation of huge, mysterious waves | Continue reading
They don't just stand on one-leg around anybody, but often prefer certain members of the flock. | Continue reading
With cars off the roads, scientists can study how smog and other types of pollution change | Continue reading
Rigorous new studies should be able to settle the matter | Continue reading
With a few dollars, researchers replicated an instrument that typically costs thousands | Continue reading
Antigen-based assays could be used in the home, but critics say their error rates are still an issue | Continue reading
Antigen-based assays could be used in the home, but critics say their error rates are still an issue | Continue reading
The agency fell well short of its goal of evaluating local flood control efforts every five years | Continue reading
Its sting is excruciating to people, but it is a bigger threat to honeybees vital for agriculture | Continue reading
Being female is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s. Why? | Continue reading
At just 1,000 light-years away, an object in a nearby star system could be our nearest known black hole—but not everyone is convinced | Continue reading
The iconoclastic researcher and entrepreneur wants more attention for his big ideas. But so far researchers are less than receptive | Continue reading
Horses picked out photos of their current keepers, and even former keepers whom they had not seen in months, at a rate much better than chance. | Continue reading
An unusually strong polar vortex kept the hole open for nearly a month—now, it’s finally shut again | Continue reading
The switch from coal to gas has driven down CO 2 emissions, but leaks negate much of those gains in the short term | Continue reading
In their own voices, health care workers from across the country reflect on coping with the coronavirus | Continue reading
Astrophyicist and author Mario Livio talks about his latest book, Galileo and the Science Deniers, and how the legendary scientist's battles are still relevant today. | Continue reading
The surprise detection of a radio burst from a neutron star in our galaxy might reveal the origin of a bigger cosmological phenomenon | Continue reading
Originally published in March 1901 | Continue reading
New bones suggest Spinosaurus is the only known aquatic dinosaur. | Continue reading
Assays that detect prior novel coronavirus infections could reveal the extent of outbreaks. But they may give individuals false security | Continue reading
Mysterious patterns in orbits of small bodies in the outer solar system could arise from the gravity of a massive disk of icy debris rather than an undiscovered giant world | Continue reading
Pooling meltwater destabilized the glacier, sending an avalanche of ice down a mountainside | Continue reading
Globe-trotting humans were the culprits | Continue reading
Globe-trotting humans were the culprits | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1863 | Continue reading
Canada’s recent experience with terminally ill patients is instructive | Continue reading
Tamu Massif and dozens of other seafloor volcanoes formed like sheet cakes, not layer cakes | Continue reading
Researchers used the light reflecting off the wrapper to build an image of its surroundings | Continue reading
Until recently, one idea has dominated research in treating Alzheimer’s disease: the amyloid hypothesis. Those therapies have repeatedly fallen short, and in this eBook we take a look at where that hypothesis stands today. We examine recent research into the spectrum of dis … | Continue reading
Mysterious mushrooms, AI for facial expressions, and other new science books | Continue reading
Letters to the editor from the January 2020 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
The large herbivores appear to prefer disturbed areas over more intact ones, and spread many more seeds in those places through their droppings. | Continue reading
Destroying habitats makes viruses and other pathogens more likely to infect humans | Continue reading
Ice lost by Greenland and Antarctica outweighs any gains from accumulating snow, measurements from NASA’s ICESat-2 show | Continue reading
Originally published in February 1917 | Continue reading
Markings on big cats are hard to distinguish, meaning one animal may be counted as two | Continue reading
Bees infected with a virus cut back on interactions within their hive, but find it easier to get past sentries at neighboring hives. | Continue reading
Lots of things seem to trigger the involuntary reflex known as the hiccups, but does science understand why that reflex happens in the first place? | Continue reading
Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX will each design and build spacecraft that could return astronauts to the Moon | Continue reading
If the coronavirus ushers in a societal shift toward more telework, that could mean fewer cars on U.S. roads | Continue reading