Cheap natural gas and subsidized renewables make coal plants an expensive prospect | Continue reading
Coastal communities struggling to adapt to climate change are beginning to do what was once unthinkable: retreat | Continue reading
More than 2,500 scientists signed a letter saying that an expanded U.S.–Mexico border wall would threaten both biodiversity and scientific research. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
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New analysis shows where fish transfers that can obscure illegal catches are happening | Continue reading
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Marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing the advertising, even though it’s illegal to target jobs to one gender | Continue reading
YouTube, Facebook and other sites are working together to find and delete extremist propaganda and recruiting videos, but a new study says they can do better | Continue reading
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Chemicals designed to simulate honeybee alarm pheromones could deter elephants from farmers’ crops, easing conflicts with humans. Annie Sneed reports. | Continue reading
How smart urban planning and design can help people and the planet | Continue reading
Did the Stars and Stripes on the moon signify the establishment of an American colony? | Continue reading
Researchers have data. Corporate executives have innovations. Mayors have real problems to solve. Yet these people do not necessarily understand how they can help one another make cities healthier and more productive. Enthusiasts from all three groups met at Springer Nature&rsquo … | Continue reading
Children born to women who had diabetes or high blood pressure while pregnant are at an increased risk of autism, two new studies suggest | Continue reading
Some species have the equivalent of many more than two sexes, but most do not. A new model suggests the reason depends on how often they mate | Continue reading
Shark researchers used a system for recognizing patterns in star field photographs to identify whale sharks, which have individual spot patterns. | Continue reading
A study of human-mammal interaction across the globe found that animals are more prone to take to the night around humans. Jason G. Goldman reports. | Continue reading
Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material | Continue reading
Critical responses have broadsided a study claiming the discovery of a galaxy missing evidence of invisible mass | Continue reading
The feat could pave the way for more powerful computing, although the technology is still in its early stages | Continue reading
We are not biologically identical to our Paleolithic predecessors, nor do we have access to the foods they ate. And deducing dietary guidelines from modern foraging societies is difficult because they vary so much by geography, season and opportunity | Continue reading
Scientists measure the "doorway effect," and it supports a novel model of human memory | Continue reading
Privacy concerns, cultural differences fuel skepticism about this approach in other settings | Continue reading
Urban leaders must work with researchers to solve real human problems | Continue reading
A flurry of recent findings highlight a contentious question in this area | Continue reading
Facilities like these hunt for evidence that can determine the fate of applicants | Continue reading
A distinct set of genes may underlie several psychiatric conditions | Continue reading
Renewable energy will rule only when weather data drive the design of a new electric grid | Continue reading
Letters to the editor from the March 2018 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
MeerKAT has drawn astronomers, engineers and data scientists from around the world | Continue reading
Let’s take a look at 4 microwave myths that science has proven false | Continue reading
The experimental approach showed promise across three types of malignancies in mice | Continue reading
Experiments to confirm we can see single photons offer new ways to probe our understanding of quantum reality | Continue reading
Medical responders will be on the lookout for signs of infection | Continue reading
The brains of children with autism fold differently than those of their typical peers. Whether they are unusually smooth or convoluted depends on location and age | Continue reading
The F-35 was billed as a fighter jet that could do almost everything the U.S. military desired but has turned out to be one of the greatest boondoggles in recent military purchasing history | Continue reading
Scientists have developed machine-learning that can teach itself to visualize a three-dimensional scene from unobserved angles | Continue reading
North America’s first domesticated dogs died out after European colonization, but they share a genetic link to a transmissible tumor spread globally | Continue reading
Acting administrator and coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, or another nominee for the chief spot, will face tough review | Continue reading
Scientific American speaks with a crew member from a NASA simulation of a long-duration space mission | Continue reading
If you were counting on infinity being absolute, your number's up | Continue reading
A natural stellar laboratory probes a prediction of general relativity to unprecedented precision | Continue reading
Ride-hailing threatens does public transit but is also key to its future success with smart policies and the right price signals in place | Continue reading
Visitors can see and learn about sharks and their environment in the new 'Ocean Wonders: Sharks!' facility at the Wildlife Conservation Society's New York Aquarium. | Continue reading