The bacteria are not a major threat, but they could transfer their resistance to more dangerous pathogens | Continue reading
As ice retreats, countries are expanding military seaports, exploiting shipping lanes and exploring for oil and gas | Continue reading
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Principles of evolution and natural selection drive a radical new approach to drugs and prevention strategies | Continue reading
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American | Continue reading
Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American | Continue reading
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Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen covers five of the most common faces of depression | Continue reading
Numerous reports documenting lucid moments at the end of life spur Alzheimer’s researchers to explore the phenomenon | Continue reading
A new study in mice identifies a compound that disrupts the metabolism of certain glioblastoma cells, stopping tumor growth while leaving healthy cells unaffected. | Continue reading
A new program could save lives in hospitals, where kidney injury is one of the most common causes of death | Continue reading
Lava tubes on the moon could be crucial sites for human outposts | Continue reading
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Candidates argued over various policy proposals, such as a carbon tax and the Green New Deal | Continue reading
Why can’t astronomers decide on whether or not Pluto is a planet? Everyday Einstein explains the controversy about our faraway neighbor | Continue reading
We should convert methane, a more powerful greenhouse gas, into CO 2 | Continue reading
Cheaper, smaller satellites could help more precisely sniff out sources of the potent greenhouse gas | Continue reading
Released or escaped parrots are now living in most states and are breeding in at least 21 states. For some, it's a second chance at survival. | Continue reading
The drug-resistant form of the virus has been detected at unacceptable levels across Africa, Asia and the Americas | Continue reading
I struggled with a terrible loss, and it made me realize that our field must do better | Continue reading
Sea ice levels are running very low as wildfires rage | Continue reading
Get-Fit Guy interviews Will Ahmed, CEO of a recovery device called WHOOP, to examine and quantify sleep, recovery, and strain | Continue reading
Although the hormone has few serious short-term side effects, its long-term risks remain a black box | Continue reading
A few brief reports about international science and technology from Guatemala to Australia, including one about the first recorded tornado in Nepal. | Continue reading
Major changes to electricity systems, transportation and other sectors are needed to meet ambitious greenhouse gas targets | Continue reading
First eggs are bad. Then they’re OK. Now they’re bad again. Nutrition Diva puts the latest study on eggs and cholesterol in perspective | Continue reading
A new bill promises millions of dollars for lifesaving studies, and scientists should use it wisely | Continue reading
Traditional rockets won't get us to the stars. Some scientists are pushing against the edges of physics to find out what will | Continue reading
Researchers hoped new data would resolve the most contentious question in cosmology. They were wrong | Continue reading
Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has interrupted clinical trials and forced scientists to change how they immunize people | Continue reading
Direct measurements reveal a glacier is melting 10 to 100 times quicker than previously thought, with implications for sea-level rise | Continue reading
China’s move away from fossil fuels would mean 2,000 fewer premature deaths in the U.S. by 2030 | Continue reading
The code of toxic masculinity requires that men are dominant over everyone else, have no needs, show no emotion, and are always #winning | Continue reading
Health care providers say a lack of transparency and communication are barriers to ensuring the children are getting adequate, ongoing treatment | Continue reading
Photos snapped by safari tourists are a surprisingly accurate way to assess populations of African carnivores. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Today’s climate change is unique in its global scale compared to other historic periods | Continue reading
Everyday Einstein explores the human immunodeficiency virus | Continue reading
Despite an impartial selection process, the space agency’s plans for robotic interplanetary missions lead to biases in our knowledge of the solar system | Continue reading
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is set to launch operations in 2025 | Continue reading
With the new system, a prosthetic wearer can do delicate tasks, such as pluck grapes from the stem | Continue reading
The Ising model, now almost a century old, shows how natural systems can behave in related ways | Continue reading
Computer modeling revealed that insects with a celestial compass can likely determine direction down to just a couple degrees of error. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
A new study demonstrates it is surprisingly easy to ID an individual within a supposedly incognito data set | Continue reading
The spacecraft is set to harness the power of sunlight alone to alter its orbit around Earth | Continue reading
The combined emissions of six cities is more than some of the biggest natural gas production centers | Continue reading
Scientists ponder how the deadly fungus arose and became so resistant to treatment | Continue reading
The president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene talks about how the designation could help fight the nearly year-old outbreak in central Sub-Saharan Africa | Continue reading
Feeding infants allergenic foods may be the key to preventing allergies | Continue reading