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Administrator Wheeler has called such projections unrealistic, but experts say they are most in line with current emissions trends | Continue reading
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
Patients want drugs fast-tracked through FDA approval process | Continue reading
Six years ago, lake levels were low, now lakeside communities face widespread flooding | Continue reading
Changes could endanger promising medical research | Continue reading
Concerns mount over reports that federal researchers could be compelled to participate in the controversial exercise | Continue reading
Turtles’ famed longevity can mask their decline—until it is too late | Continue reading
Researchers trained a neural network to scrutinize high school essays and sniff out ghostwritten papers. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 or 2˚C would reduce deaths during future heat waves | Continue reading
Some of the scary things you may have heard about nuts and aflatoxins are probably exaggerated. Nonetheless, these are not imaginary concerns | Continue reading
Policy also requires ethics review for any grant applications to the National Institutes of Health that involve fetal tissue | Continue reading
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
The Department of Defense was the biggest benefactor, with money going to rebuild bases | Continue reading
A new study reveals surprising new details about our galaxy’s shadowy core | Continue reading
Some scientists had called for lifting the ban to allow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to evaluate the new technologies | Continue reading
A new finding points to possible life in other extreme environments, including on ancient Mars | Continue reading
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
The credits could target all low-carbon electricity generation, instead of solely wind and solar | Continue reading
Similarly effective drugs in the pipeline will also be gauged against their enormous price tags | Continue reading
Delays to the James Webb Space Telescope will result in at least a yearlong hiatus in space-based infrared observations | Continue reading
Savvy Psychologist reveals 4 psychological drivers behind anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia, and other forms of disordered eating | Continue reading
What if great white sharks threaten sea otters? Dilemmas are on the rise in an increasingly disrupted environment | Continue reading
Three companies are receiving millions of dollars apiece to ferry payloads to the moon’s surface in 2020 and 2021 | Continue reading
Antibodies to a portion of the influenza virus that varies relatively little from strain to strain may provide flu protection in humans | Continue reading
Growth in natural gas could offset any reductions from the continued decline in coal-power generation | Continue reading
The gene a Chinese scientist attempted to modify in twin girls last year has been associated with premature death | Continue reading
What if great white sharks threaten sea otters? Dilemmas are on the rise in an increasingly disrupted environment | Continue reading
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
A new study used machine learning to show how “all mutations are not created equal” | Continue reading
Why dolphins, seals and other animals developed the capacity to sleep with half their brain awake | Continue reading
A system that transmits radio waves through fruit could help farmers monitor soil moisture | Continue reading
Solving global water issues will greatly benefit food and energy, too | Continue reading
Blacks and Hispanics in the U.S. are exposed to more emissions than whites and consume less from the industries responsible | Continue reading
Minnesota white-tailed deer have found an unlikely ally in bats, which eat the biting flies the deer attract | Continue reading
Tech experts can’t guarantee it’s safe | Continue reading
Policies need to address a deeper, more systemic failure of global recycling systems | Continue reading
Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American | Continue reading
The now-extinct animals once lived from Florida to Alaska, and weighed as up to 100 kilograms | Continue reading
Missiles designed to destroy incoming nuclear warheads fail frequently in tests and could increase global risk of mass destruction | Continue reading
Letters to the editor from the February 2019 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
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How DNA is used to store—and generate—information at extreme scales | Continue reading
Stimulating nerves in the spleens of mice with ultrasound reduced their inflammatory responses and arthritis symptoms | Continue reading
New research shows that primate calls deter predators in the wild | Continue reading
Diversity leads to innovation, which is crucial to fight climate change | Continue reading