Damage from Hurricane Helene forced the only abortion clinic in western North Carolina to shutter, disrupting health care for pregnant people across a large region | Continue reading
Social wasps can hold their liquor | Continue reading
Apple experts divide time into “before Honeycrisp” and “after Honeycrisp,” and apples have never tasted so good | Continue reading
Her name was on the patent for tamoxifen, but Dora Richardson’s story was lost until now | Continue reading
In a new book, a long-time foreign correspondent examines the underappreciated links between climate change and violent conflict | Continue reading
Human echolocation repurposes parts of the brain’s visual cortex for sound, even in sighted people | Continue reading
Lyudmila Trut devoted her life to studying the process of domestication by selectively breeding friendly foxes | Continue reading
Supermassive black holes can expel jets of material so vast and powerful that they may shape the large-scale structure of the cosmos | Continue reading
On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce | Continue reading
An epidemiologist explores a troubling rise in early-onset breast cancer diagnoses and discusses the potential link to chronic exposure to endocrine disruptors. | Continue reading
In Absolution, the fourth novel in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach saga, scientists try to know the unknowable | Continue reading
A potable water shortage and a toxic stew of sewage and other pollutants that Hurricane Helene’s flooding left behind have prompted a race to avert a public health crisis in North Carolina | Continue reading
A small study of people with congenital anosmia found changes in breathing that suggest the condition may affect more than just the ability to smell | Continue reading
The Heiltsuk of British Columbia are using a mix of traditional principles and modern implementation to protect salmon and bears in their territory | Continue reading
People recovering from substance use disorders need homes, jobs and medication-centered, quality health care, not just a bed in a residential treatment center | Continue reading
A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal | Continue reading
What we think about when we think about “zilch” is surprisingly complex, neuroscientists find | Continue reading
Observations from a retrofitted spy plane hint at a connection between powerful gamma-ray flashes and a thunderstorm’s lightning | Continue reading
Oregon decriminalized hard drugs in 2021 and recriminalized them last month. A new analysis shows the laws likely had little effect on opioid deaths | Continue reading
People are pulling their kids out of traditional education to learn while they travel. Data on educational success are limited, but there are other reasons to consider worldschooling | Continue reading
Kick off the week by catching up on the latest science news. | Continue reading
A tree’s fall palette offers a glimpse at its health and the weather it has experienced in a given year | Continue reading
Phone apps can tell whether your kid is playing hooky. But remotely surveilling your child might not be great for navigating the trials of the teen years | Continue reading
Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants | Continue reading
The rising moon looks huge on the horizon, but it’s all in your head | Continue reading
The next U.S. president will have to contend with regulations around AI—and the electorate is already facing AI-generated misinformation. | Continue reading
The Small Business Association has announced that loans to those affected by hurricanes and other disasters have been halted to wait for more money from Congress. But the House speaker says nothing will happen until after the presidential election | Continue reading
Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence | Continue reading
In a health care system that assumes older adults have family caregivers to help them, those facing dementia alone often fall through the cracks | Continue reading
In her book Wonder Drug, Jennifer Vanderbes explores the history of thalidomide’s secret history—and harms—in the U.S. | Continue reading
Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era | Continue reading
A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 million years, a new study suggests | Continue reading
Brain studies show that language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought | Continue reading
As tensions soar in the Middle East, the president’s lame duck status hinders efforts to manage the escalation of risks in the region | Continue reading
Hurricane Helene devastated a North Carolina facility that produces peritoneal dialysis fluid, which is used by about 80,000 people nationally | Continue reading
Despite high levels of innumeracy and math anxiety, people often appreciate numeric data | Continue reading
Inspired by a classic movie, conservationists are teaching endangered Northern Bald Ibises to fly south for the winter | Continue reading
Harris would continue the Biden administration’s landmark climate efforts; Trump would roll the country back to more oil and gas | Continue reading
How do you stop implicit bias from getting in the way of better health? This doctor wants to make learning how to manage bias as important as learning how to suture. | Continue reading
SpaceX’s fifth Starship flight test concluded with mechanical arms snatching the descending rocket booster out of the air | Continue reading
Increasingly intense hurricanes, wildfires and other climate disasters have forced these state-run backstop insurance groups into a role typically assumed by the private sector as the primary insurer within their borders | Continue reading
Implementing smart technologies such as demand-controlled ventilation could reduce the carbon footprint of office buildings, which contribute more than one third of fossil fuel emissions globally | Continue reading
We talk to Cristina Gonzalez, a physician at New York University, who runs a lab that uses simulations to help medical professionals check their implicit bias at the exam room door. | Continue reading
Play this crossword inspired by the November 2024 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
Songs and speech across cultures suggest music developed similar features around the world | Continue reading
Estimates of how fast the universe is expanding disagree. Could a new form of dark energy resolve the problem? | Continue reading
Letters to the editors for the June 2024 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
Lessons from the people making forest ecosystems more resilient | Continue reading