Computational and behavioral scientist Sendhil Mullainathan describes how to avoid a common fault in reasoning | Continue reading
Artificial illumination is helping to devastate the earth’s insects | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1866 | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1866 | Continue reading
How early pterosaurs walked on the ground has been a complete mystery. Now the first known trackways of their footprints offer answers | Continue reading
EEGs successfully picked out which depressed individuals got better on the drug Zoloft | Continue reading
The probe's long, historic journey is underway | Continue reading
Swollen rivers could impede levee repairs, inundate homes and delay the planting of crops | Continue reading
Under a new rule, the agency would be prevented from using crucial studies that include confidential information | Continue reading
Originally published in May 1914 | Continue reading
A flare predicted for this spring could confirm the object is indeed two monstrous black holes coming together | Continue reading
We laugh even before we can speak, but why? Science has some answers to the mystery of human laughter, and some of them might surprise you | Continue reading
Letters to the editor from the October 2019 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
Nearly every basketball player, coach or fan believes that some shooters have an uncanny tendency to experience the hot hand | Continue reading
The ergogenic effects of caffeine on muscle strength and aerobic endurance are significant but do you have to forego your morning cup of joe for a while to really feel those | Continue reading
With an international deal in serious jeopardy, Iran is not racing to build nuclear weapons—but its capabilities are growing | Continue reading
Neandertals ate clams and then modified the hard shells into tools for cutting and scraping. | Continue reading
Passing a kidney stone is excruciating! Here are some tips to reduce the chances that you'll ever have to endure that pain or relive past misery | Continue reading
The combination of climate change, habitat loss and pesticide use is leading to local extinctions of bee species | Continue reading
Originally published in January 1912 | Continue reading
The flu has already caused about 10,000 deaths this season in the U.S. alone | Continue reading
Astronomers are puzzling over how this cosmic giant arose and expired so quickly in the early universe | Continue reading
A common component of plastics could come from existing carbon sources | Continue reading
Whiskies claimed to be from the 19th century are revealed to be made with much more recently grown barley thanks to the unique isotopic fingerprint of the nuclear testing era. | Continue reading
Whiskeys claimed to be from the 19th century are revealed to be made with much more recently grown barley, thanks to the unique isotopic fingerprint of the nuclear-testing era. | Continue reading
A mouse study shows immune cells gobbling up the connections between memory-associated neurons | Continue reading
Put down that jelly donut and learn the evolutionary science behind why sugar makes us salivate | Continue reading
Climate change may in part be spurring the acceleration, which could change how heat and nutrients are pushed around the oceans | Continue reading
Coordinated by NASA and ESA, an ambitious effort to retrieve samples from the Red Planet faces major obstacles | Continue reading
Originally published in September 1849 | Continue reading
Coordinated by NASA and ESA, an ambitious effort to retrieve samples from the Red Planet faces major obstacles | Continue reading
By outfitting 169 albatrosses with GPS data loggers, scientists were able to track fishing boats apparently trying to hide their location. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Whenever there’s a new outbreak, scientists rush to calculate a number called R0, or R-naught | Continue reading
Several GOP lawmakers have pushed tree planting as a climate mitigation strategy, though scientists say it alone will not curb emissions | Continue reading
Physicists take the first step toward taming the short-lived particle | Continue reading
The novel coronavirus outbreak raises questions about how such pathogens evolve and what makes infections mild or severe | Continue reading
The novel coronavirus outbreak raises questions about how such pathogens evolve and what makes infections mild or severe | Continue reading
Making changes to the molecular messengers that create proteins might offer flexible therapies for cancer, pain or high cholesterol, in addition to genetic disorders | Continue reading
Originally published in February 1960 | Continue reading
The vast region may stay wet—or dry up and burn—depending on whether indigenous people want to continue to work the land | Continue reading
Get-Fit Guy picks the brain of yoga practitioner, Abi Carver of Yoga15.com, to find out how she works with athletes to do just that | Continue reading
In the next two decades, sea level rise, storm surge and winds will chew away at Florida’s $1 trillion economy, a new report warns | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1866 | Continue reading
Do recent explanations solve the mysteries of aerodynamic lift? | Continue reading
Next-generation opioids may spring from a tiny fungus protein | Continue reading
A few brief reports about international science and technology from around the world, including one from Congo about a toad that has evolved coloring that makes it look like a deadly snake's head. | Continue reading
The Corps will study how to improve the vast flood control systems along the lower reaches of the Missouri River | Continue reading
Originally published in May 1914 | Continue reading