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Adult corals can reshuffle their symbiotic algae species to adapt to warming waters—and, it appears they can pass those adaptations on. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Do you have weak forearms? Is your lack of forearm strength holding you back? Get-Fit Guy answers a listener's question and gets to the bottom of this weakness. | Continue reading
Climate initiatives improve some states’ rankings as others fall behind | Continue reading
Approaches for boosting the body’s immune system are being tried for autoimmune and heart conditions, but it is too early to know how well they will work in people | Continue reading
To avoid stagnated growth and labor shortfalls, the U.S. must rethink its approach now | Continue reading
The best programs teach kids language skills and focusing abilities through innovative, child-centered activities | Continue reading
Facing the scourge of a parasitic Asian mite, commercial beekeepers are trying to breed a resistant strain—but other threats loom | Continue reading
A new analysis adds to existing evidence for a racial disparity in wait times at polling places | Continue reading
One of the most powerful tools in the science arsenal, mathematics allows scientists across disciplines to test hypotheses about the real world. In this eBook, we look at important recent advances in the field and examine the role of modeling and statistical analysis in understan … | Continue reading
The brains of blind people repurpose the vision regions for adaptive hearing, and they appear to do so in a consistent way. | Continue reading
A study suggests the phenomenon may have evolved from a mechanism for triggering ovulation | Continue reading
The strains chosen for the Southern Hemisphere vaccine suggest the Northern Hemisphere one may not provide optimal protection | Continue reading
The embattled researcher answers a book’s charges that he incited and exaggerated the violence of the Yanomamö in this profile from 2001 | Continue reading
Authorities hope power cuts and brush clearing will reduce risks as the state enters peak fire season | Continue reading
Scientists harness “structural color” to create images in plastic | Continue reading
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Approaches for boosting the body’s immune system are being tried for autoimmune and heart conditions, but it is too early to know how well they will work in people | Continue reading
A few brief reports about international science and technology from Hungary to Japan, including one about a wine grape in France that DNA testing shows has been cultivated for almost a millennium. | Continue reading
With economic activity poised to surge in space, scientists are reexamining how rockets might harm Earth’s atmosphere | Continue reading
The physicist and computer scientist Stephanie Wehner is planning and designing the next internet—a quantum one | Continue reading
Former EPA Adminstrator Gina McCarthy talks with Scientific American's Andrea Thompson about the widespread benefits of taking action against climate change. | Continue reading
Vanessa Ruta, a former ballet dancer, now focuses her creative instincts on exploring how behavior changes as brain circuits are altered through evolution or experience | Continue reading
Researchers try to fathom why half the residents who drowned in Superstorm Sandy were in homes where evacuations were mandatory | Continue reading
What can our genes tell us about which diet will work best for us? | Continue reading
The large, disk-shaped Dickinsonia roamed in search of food 550 million years ago | Continue reading
As of this week, there have been 805 confirmed cases and 12 deaths, across 46 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands | Continue reading
Some medical schools are turning to virtual reality instead of dissection | Continue reading
Malignancies are on the rise in the most obese generation in history | Continue reading
The Department of Energy is aiming to get ahead of a looming recycling problem from electric car batteries | Continue reading
You can find good information, but there's a lot more bad | Continue reading
Small tweaks, not deep physical insight, can lead to a better mousetrap | Continue reading
Western ears consider a pitch at double the frequency of a lower pitch to be the same note an octave higher. The Tsimane’, an indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon basin, do not. | Continue reading
Though coal is declining as a power source, it is often being replaced by natural gas, another fossil fuel | Continue reading
The e-cigarette maker’s announcement comes in the wake of a controversy over the marketing of its products to youth | Continue reading
A new U.N. report predicts more powerful storms, increased risk of flooding and dwindling fisheries if greenhouse-gas output doesn’t fall | Continue reading
Posts made by the @realDonaldTrump account demonstrate how the president’s linguistic style changed as he advanced toward the White House | Continue reading
Alice Gorman argues for preserving more of humanity’s off-world heritage | Continue reading
BBC and Netflix nature documentaries consistently shy away from showing viewers the true extent to which we've damaged the planet. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Physics historian Graham Farmelo talks about his latest book, The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets. | Continue reading
“Ultraprocessed” foods seem to trigger neural signals that make us want more and more calories, unlike other foods in the Western diet | Continue reading
France lures U.S.-based researchers after American withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement | Continue reading
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is trying to push countries to ratchet up their emissions reduction efforts | Continue reading
“Ultraprocessed” foods seem to trigger neural signals that make us want more and more calories, unlike other foods in the Western diet | Continue reading
German funding agency imposes strict sanctions on Niels Birbaumer, whose studies it says contained incomplete data—but Birbaumer stands by his work | Continue reading
The odd connection between a cliff-hanger and a candy bar | Continue reading
New data suggest the New York Railroad Storm could have surpassed the intensity of the famous Carrington Event of 1859 | Continue reading