Are People with ADHD More Creative?

A look at whether people whose minds drift away easily, such as those with the disorder, are more likely to come up with original ideas | Continue reading


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EPA Head Targets "Worst-Case" Climate Scenarios

Administrator Wheeler has called such projections unrealistic, but experts say they are most in line with current emissions trends | Continue reading


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Interview: The Once and Future Moon

Oliver Morton discusses his new book about how art, science and politics have shaped past, present and planned voyages to Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor | Continue reading


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Fed Up with Washington, ALS Advocates Consider ACT UP's Take-no-Prisoners Approach

Patients want drugs fast-tracked through FDA approval process | Continue reading


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Climate Change Sends Great Lakes Water Levels Seesawing

Six years ago, lake levels were low, now lakeside communities face widespread flooding | Continue reading


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FAQ: How Does New Trump Fetal Policy Impact Medical Research?

Changes could endanger promising medical research | Continue reading


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White House Climate Review Could Damage Careers, Scientists Warn

Concerns mount over reports that federal researchers could be compelled to participate in the controversial exercise | Continue reading


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As Predicted, Some of Australia's Turtles Are Going Extinct

Turtles’ famed longevity can mask their decline—until it is too late | Continue reading


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High School Cheaters Nabbed By Neural Network

Researchers trained a neural network to scrutinize high school essays and sniff out ghostwritten papers. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading


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Meeting Climate Targets Would Prevent Thousands of U.S. Deaths

Limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 or 2˚C would reduce deaths during future heat waves | Continue reading


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Aflatoxins in Nuts: Danger or Hype?

Some of the scary things you may have heard about nuts and aflatoxins are probably exaggerated. Nonetheless, these are not imaginary concerns | Continue reading


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Trump Administration Halts Fetal-Tissue Research by Government Scientists

Policy also requires ethics review for any grant applications to the National Institutes of Health that involve fetal tissue | Continue reading


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The Deep Ocean Harbors a Mountain of Microplastic Pollution

Four times as many plastic particles turned up in the deep waters of a “clean” patch of ocean than on the surface in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Continue reading


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What Long-Awaited Disaster Funding Does--And Does Not--Include

The Department of Defense was the biggest benefactor, with money going to rebuild bases | Continue reading


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Cool Gas Circles Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

A new study reveals surprising new details about our galaxy’s shadowy core | Continue reading


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Congress Revives Ban on Altering the DNA of Human Embryos Used for Pregnancies

Some scientists had called for lifting the ban to allow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to evaluate the new technologies | Continue reading


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The Not So Dead Sea: Traces of Ancient Bacteria Found in the Lake's Sediments

A new finding points to possible life in other extreme environments, including on ancient Mars | Continue reading


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Preserved Poop is an Archaeological Treasure

Anthropologists found parasite eggs in ancient poop samples, providing a glimpse of human health as hunter gatherers transitioned to settlements. Christopher Intagliata reports | Continue reading


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As Renewable Energy Subsidies Expire, Experts Advocate Tax Credits

The credits could target all low-carbon electricity generation, instead of solely wind and solar | Continue reading


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Is $2.1 million Too Much for a Drug? For Affected Parents, There Is No Debate

Similarly effective drugs in the pipeline will also be gauged against their enormous price tags | Continue reading


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Ending in 2020, NASA's Infrared Spitzer Mission Leaves a Gap in Astronomy

Delays to the James Webb Space Telescope will result in at least a yearlong hiatus in space-based infrared observations | Continue reading


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Remembering Murray Gell-Mann

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The Mindset of Eating Disorders

Savvy Psychologist reveals 4 psychological drivers behind anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia, and other forms of disordered eating | Continue reading


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When One Protected Species Kills Another, What Are Conservationists to Do?

What if great white sharks threaten sea otters? Dilemmas are on the rise in an increasingly disrupted environment | Continue reading


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NASA Picks First Private Landers for Lunar Science

Three companies are receiving millions of dollars apiece to ferry payloads to the moon’s surface in 2020 and 2021 | Continue reading


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New Finding Advances the Search for a Universal Flu Vaccine

Antibodies to a portion of the influenza virus that varies relatively little from strain to strain may provide flu protection in humans | Continue reading


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2019 Power-Sector Trends Point to a Continued Rise in U.S. Emissions

Growth in natural gas could offset any reductions from the continued decline in coal-power generation | Continue reading


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Genetic Mutation in "CRISPR Babies" May Shorten Lifespan

The gene a Chinese scientist attempted to modify in twin girls last year has been associated with premature death | Continue reading


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When One Protected Species Kills Another, What Are Conservationists to Do?

What if great white sharks threaten sea otters? Dilemmas are on the rise in an increasingly disrupted environment | Continue reading


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IQ2O: Getting Smart About Water

The current state of our water supply has been called a crisis in slow motion, facing a perfect storm of higher demands from a growing population, changing weather patterns and safety threats caused by decaying infrastructure. In this eBook, we explore the ecological effects, the … | Continue reading


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"Noncoding" Mutations May Play Unexpected Key Role in Autism

A new study used machine learning to show how “all mutations are not created equal” | Continue reading


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Meet the Animals That Literally Sleep with One Eye Open

Why dolphins, seals and other animals developed the capacity to sleep with half their brain awake | Continue reading


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An "Internet of Plants" Could Tell Farmers When Crops Need Watering

A system that transmits radio waves through fruit could help farmers monitor soil moisture | Continue reading


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Follow the Water

Solving global water issues will greatly benefit food and energy, too | Continue reading


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Minorities Breathe More Than Their Share of Polluted Air

Blacks and Hispanics in the U.S. are exposed to more emissions than whites and consume less from the industries responsible | Continue reading


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Deer Get by with a Little Help from Bat Friends  

Minnesota white-tailed deer have found an unlikely ally in bats, which eat the biting flies the deer attract  | Continue reading


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Online Voting Seems like a Great Idea--Until You Look Closer

Tech experts can’t guarantee it’s safe | Continue reading


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Bag Bans Won't Solve the Plastic Pollution Problem

Policies need to address a deeper, more systemic failure of global recycling systems  | Continue reading


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An Intimate Portrait of Asian Elephants, A Case for Math-Driven Physics, and Other New Science Books

Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American | Continue reading


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Why Giant Human-Sized Beavers Died Out 10,000 Years Ago

The now-extinct animals once lived from Florida to Alaska, and weighed as up to 100 kilograms | Continue reading


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We Can't Count on Missile Defense to Defeat Incoming Nukes

Missiles designed to destroy incoming nuclear warheads fail frequently in tests and could increase global risk of mass destruction | Continue reading


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Readers Respond to the February 2019 Issue

Letters to the editor from the February 2019 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading


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In Case You Missed It

Top news from around the world | Continue reading


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Could the Next Big Information Technology Be ... DNA?

How DNA is used to store—and generate—information at extreme scales | Continue reading


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Zapping Nerves with Ultrasound Could Treat Inflammation  

Stimulating nerves in the spleens of mice with ultrasound reduced their inflammatory responses and arthritis symptoms | Continue reading


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Monkeys Use Alarm Calls to Tell Predators to Scram  

New research shows that primate calls deter predators in the wild  | Continue reading


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Understanding through Time

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We Need More Women Working in the Energy Sector

Diversity leads to innovation, which is crucial to fight climate change | Continue reading


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