Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American | Continue reading
What Venus can teach us about planets far beyond our own solar system | Continue reading
A number of studies about number two | Continue reading
As anthropologists debate how best to protect uncontacted tribes, indigenous groups in Colombia are working to shield their isolated neighbors from the march of modernity | Continue reading
Anxiety disorders, addiction, acute pain and stroke rehabilitation are just a few of the areas where VR therapy is already in use | Continue reading
The tool has already helped detect fake reports leading to the detention of several suspects across Spain | Continue reading
Animals of both species can be assessed using many of the “big five” factors used to describe humans | Continue reading
The genes of Hawaiian plants, extinct for more than a century, have been brought back from the dead. Today we can smell their scents | Continue reading
For better birth outcomes, the U.S. should rethink maternity care | Continue reading
It's a malware-eat-malware world | Continue reading
In Kenya, wild animals and livestock can coexist and even benefit each other | Continue reading
An infectious disease model shows that ideas from prestigious institutions are more likely to spread farthest | Continue reading
Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American | Continue reading
Rapid glacier retreat could put coastlines underwater sooner than anticipated | Continue reading
Gravitational measurements may solve the long-standing mystery of how Mount Sharp formed | Continue reading
Insects like the cold-hardy emerald ash borer could see mass die-offs, but survivors could have hardier offspring | Continue reading
Scientific American collections editor Andrea Gawrylewski talks to managing editor Curtis Brainard about how warming in the Arctic affects us all. And glaciologist Elizabeth Case takes us out near Juneau to study and live on the shifting ice. | Continue reading
Javelin throwers chucking replicas of Neanderthal spears were able to hit targets farther away, and with greater force, than previously thought to be possible. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Ice in the hole disappeared in the last three years, worrying scientists about future ice loss | Continue reading
Individuals who undergo cosmetic surgery expect to look better, but they also want to feel happier and more confident. Does it work? | Continue reading
How an animal moves can tell scientists a lot about how it lives. That is how researchers hope to learn more about an ancient crocodilelike creature called Orobates pabsti . Using scans of an Orobates fossil, fossilized footprints, and data from lizards an … | Continue reading
The assays don't always yield results, but the information they offer can, at times, alter the course of treatment or prevention | Continue reading
Although resuscitation attempts are still underway, officials are on the verge of announcing the death of the Red Planet’s longest-lived robotic explorer | Continue reading
Researchers have deduced which early human species occupied Denisova Cave and when, drawing surprising conclusions about who made the sophisticated artifacts found there | Continue reading
The effort comes as President Trump makes comments that deny climate science | Continue reading
It will make 4G phones seem positively quaint | Continue reading
Researchers built a small, flexible device that harvests wifi, bluetooth and cellular signals, and turns them into DC electricity. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Scientists keep getting conflicting calculations of the expansion rate of the universe, but a new technique could help | Continue reading
The world’s southernmost continent is jettisoning six times more ice now than it was four decades ago | Continue reading
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft could launch as early as 2023 to investigate one of the solar system’s most mysterious moons | Continue reading
A few brief reports about international science and technology from Papua New Guinea to Kazakhstan, including one on the slow slide of Mount Etna in Italy. | Continue reading
Extreme weather, armed conflict and mismanagement are ruining swaths of crops | Continue reading
Is the “unique snowflake” just flake news? Mother Nature might never produce two identical snowflakes, thanks to the near-infinite variability of the conditions affecting ice crystal formation. But a Caltech scientist has developed a process for growing pairs of twin … | Continue reading
New 2-D electronic technology may reap radio energy to power an array of devices such as hearing aids, sensors and other gadgets that make up the Internet of Things | Continue reading
Scientists start to tackle “collective narcissism” | Continue reading
Killing ticks and inoculating people has failed, so researchers try immunizing mice via vaccine-laced food | Continue reading
Cod egg survival stays high with limited warming, but plummets when the temperature rises a few degrees Celsius in their current spawning grounds. | Continue reading
More in some places, less in others, the trends are both clear and complicated | Continue reading
Biologists have demonstrated for the first time that a controversial genetic engineering technology works, with caveats, in mammals | Continue reading
Hints of ghostly galaxies and ancient cataclysms in data from the Gaia spacecraft offer fresh insights into dark matter | Continue reading
Are we really at our smartest in our 20s? At what age do we strike the right balance between cognitive ability and expertise? | Continue reading
There are many cheap and effective ways to provide safe water to the world’s poor regions. But projects often fail due to inadequate planning, maintenance or persuasive power | Continue reading
A species of hermit crab appears to have evolved a large penis to enable intercourse without leaving, and thus possibly losing, its adopted shell. | Continue reading
The official federal announcement of global temperatures has been delayed by the U.S. government shutdown | Continue reading
Two newfound galaxies appear to be devoid of the mysterious substance, paradoxically providing more proof dark matter exists | Continue reading
Rep. Kathy Castor, head of the revamped House climate committee, says the panel will be working on a policy road map for global warming | Continue reading
By coupling audio recordings with satellite data and camera traps, ecologists can keep their eyes—and ears—on protected tropical forests. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading