The small body beyond Pluto visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now officially known as Arrokoth | Continue reading
How worn-out upholstery in doctors’ waiting rooms revealed common psychological traits | Continue reading
A new algorithm counteracts the distorting impact of water | Continue reading
Study subjects with a gene variant that heightened their sensitivity to bitterness tended to eat fewer vegetables than people who didn't mind bitter flavors. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Increased disease exposure and extreme weather events pose heightened risks for already vulnerable communities | Continue reading
The approval of Merck’s vaccine comes after decades of research aimed at preventing the deadly disease | Continue reading
Starting in the early 2030s, the project could become our first purposeful step out of the solar system—if it launches at all | Continue reading
Can you really “reach out and touch someone” via text? | Continue reading
As universities shut down, researchers are demonstrating—and meeting with lawmakers to figure out if science can help solve socio-economic inequality | Continue reading
A chance discovery brings new interest in porcine intelligence | Continue reading
Starting in the early 2030s, the project could become our first purposeful step out of the solar system—if it launches at all | Continue reading
Nature is arguably the world's most prestigious scientific journal. Editor-in-chief Magdalena Skipper spoke with Scientific American acting editor-in-chief Curtis Brainard about her journal as it celebrates its 150th anniversary. | Continue reading
Precise measurement affirms that the particle’s radius is smaller than physicists once thought | Continue reading
The construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world’s largest nuclear fusion experiment, is now 60 percent complete | Continue reading
Watch while you can—the next transit of the closest planet to the sun will not occur until 2032 | Continue reading
Their data will also bolster climate models that forecast extreme weather where we all live | Continue reading
The ecosystem of a crime scene, how undercover patients changed psychiatric care, and more | Continue reading
A measles-like virus is ricocheting through marine mammal populations in the Arctic—and melting sea ice might be to blame. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Get-Fit Guy spent some time chatting with Vivobarefoot CEO Galahad Clark about the importance of going barefoot and the health science presented the new documentary Shoespiracy | Continue reading
Letters to the editor from the July 2019 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
CDC says vitamin E acetate turned up in every sample of lung fluid from 29 patients | Continue reading
There are some situations where beneficial bacteria (either from foods or supplements) can post a threat to the host | Continue reading
Socioeconomic status and racial diversity affect how different communities adapt to a changing climate | Continue reading
Dishonesty begets dishonesty, rapidly spreading unethical behavior through a society | Continue reading
Feathers surrounding the insects’ nests mask a pitfall | Continue reading
Researchers tracked thousands of individual ants to determine how they move in vast numbers without stumbling into gridlock. | Continue reading
Researchers link a Catholic Church ban on cousins marrying in the Middle Ages to the emergence of a way of life that made the West an outlier | Continue reading
Researchers link a Catholic Church ban on cousins marrying in the Middle Ages to the emergence of a way of life that made the West an outlier | Continue reading
A strange chromosome may have provided fodder for the evolution of new traits | Continue reading
Reusing clothes saves on emissions and water use, but researchers have lingering questions on exactly how much it can contribute to making the apparel industry more sustainable | Continue reading
In an analysis of chess and tennis matches, players rising in the rankings did better than expected against higher-ranked opponents, and better than similarly ranked players not currently rising. | Continue reading
The surveillance of viral changes persists to keep the blood supply safe | Continue reading
Cities from Key West to Boston have seen notably worse nuisance flooding this fall | Continue reading
The limited system made a notable advancement on the road to beating classical machines | Continue reading
Within just a third of a second of hearing a snippet of a familiar refrain, our pupils dilate and the brain shows signs of recognition. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
The U.S. will officially leave the landmark agreement the day after the 2020 Presidential election | Continue reading
The drug targets the connection between the brain and the microbiome | Continue reading
The science of emotions tells us that negative emotions like fear, anger, and sadness are actually healthy and useful | Continue reading
Treatment first used in the early 20th century is showing promise against deadly infections | Continue reading
A new study suggests the cosmos may be curved in upon itself like a ball—but many experts remain unconvinced | Continue reading
A cognitive factor helps explain how well we understand each other | Continue reading
Solar arrays placed in agricultural fields can benefit both energy and crop production | Continue reading
Despite a parachute glitch, the spacecraft's pad abort system showed it could protect future astronauts | Continue reading
How much do you know about the largest human-made object in space? Here are cool facts about what it is, who lives there, and where you can see it | Continue reading
The first scientific results from the spacecraft’s exit into interstellar space have been published, revealing a simpler departure than its predecessor | Continue reading
A common argument among skeptics is put to rest | Continue reading
Enjoy and loop on | Continue reading