A huge aerial campaign seeks to understand the effects of biomass smoke on human health | Continue reading
Originally published in March 1880 | Continue reading
Research meetings are being canceled left and right over epidemic fears, slowing the work of scientists—especially those who are early in their career | Continue reading
Scientific American contributing editor Wayt Gibbs reports from the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, Kirkland, Washington. In this first of an ongoing series, he looks at why children seem to weather this disease better than adults and the complicated issue of shutteri … | Continue reading
Scientists expect to see changes in the timing, location and severity of disease outbreaks as global temperatures rise | Continue reading
A planetary alignment provides a window to visit Uranus and Neptune—but time is tight | Continue reading
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are betting on a different approach than existing efforts for battling COVID-19 | Continue reading
A new study suggests there are key differences between the compositions of Earth and its natural satellite, with significant implications for lunar history | Continue reading
Originally published in March 1900 | Continue reading
Drug use in cows alters nutrient cycling | Continue reading
Emmy and Peabody Award winning science writer, producer and director Ann Druyan talks about Cosmos: Possible Worlds, the next installment of the Cosmos series. | Continue reading
Letters to the editor from the November 2019 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
More insights on a positive side of a “disorder” | Continue reading
Every time you turn around someone is suggesting aromatherapy. Essential oils are a $1 billion industry, but are they effective? | Continue reading
Top news from around the world | Continue reading
The famous pink blooms in Washington, D.C., are responding to an unusually warm winter on the East Coast | Continue reading
The experiment tests a gene-editing therapy for a hereditary blindness disorder | Continue reading
Methane can be captured from human and animal waste and energy and heating | Continue reading
Originally published in April 1866 | Continue reading
Bats proliferate in forests thinned by fire | Continue reading
As the region warms, ignorance about creatures ranging from plankton to whales leaves them vulnerable to human activities | Continue reading
Overly cautious humans and genetics may contribute to behavior problems in a survey of 13,700 Finnish animals | Continue reading
Though such turbines are more efficient, they can still encounter local opposition | Continue reading
How can menopausal and perimenopausal women exercise to avoid “middle-age spread?” We talked with physician and triathlete Dr. Tamsin Lewis to find out | Continue reading
The rule that noncitizens cannot draw on public assistance is going to drive many out of the health care system | Continue reading
Originally published in March 1950 | Continue reading
Measuring zoo animals’ heart and breathing rates from a distance keeps them—and humans—safe | Continue reading
Such an extreme fire season is at least 30 percent more likely because of global warming, a new analysis finds | Continue reading
Health inspectors have cited more than 60 percent of U.S. nursing homes for health violations such as workers not washing hands enough | Continue reading
The infestation is the worst U.N. officials say they have seen in 25 years, despite chemical spraying to combat the insects | Continue reading
Storm tracking could be scuttled by interference from next-gen wireless communications | Continue reading
Studies on very old vegetation in the Amazon Basin show active management hundreds of years ago on species such as Brazil nut trees and cocoa trees. | Continue reading
Originally published in April 1916 | Continue reading
As development and rising seas diminish roosting sites, shell-filled bags provide “islands” to rest and refuel | Continue reading
Paul Reber, professor of psychology at Northwestern University, replies | Continue reading
Being elderly, having an underlying illness, and possibly being male all increase the risk of dying from an infection with the virus | Continue reading
Requirements to disclose flood risk could help discourage development in inundation-prone areas | Continue reading
Physicists suspect spacetime ripples could explain why the universe is made of matter | Continue reading
Physicists who were set to attend the American Physical Society’s Denver conference are using virtual platforms to share their talks | Continue reading
By breaking 900 classical piano compositions into musical chunks, researchers could track Beethoven’s influence on the composers who followed. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Cosmos co-creator discusses communicating her dream for humanity | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1951 | Continue reading
The answer depends on your personality | Continue reading
Here are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one from off the California coast about the first heart rate measurement done on a blue whale. | Continue reading
A study in infants adds to the debate about whether we come into the world prepped for higher cognitive abilities such as face recognition | Continue reading
Voters exposed to such untrustworthy sources also see valid news online, a study finds | Continue reading
Some scientists suspect that Roundup and milkweed loss aren’t the only culprits | Continue reading
Celebrated mathematician Martin Gardner is your guide to the planar playground in this eBook collection. For 25 years in his Mathematical Games column, Gardner mixed well-understood topics with the cutting-edge, and here we’ve selected some of Gardner’s best columns s … | Continue reading