Play this crossword inspired by the October 2024 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
Simple cues help people to distinguish song from the spoken word | Continue reading
Invasive spotted lanternflies are spreading across the metro areas of New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., despite professional and amateur attempts to reduce their numbers | Continue reading
Entanglement lets researchers watch plants in action without disruptive visible light | Continue reading
According to the American Cancer Society, Black men are about 70 percent more likely than white men to develop prostate cancer in their lifetime and twice as likely to die from the disease. | Continue reading
A strange sound dubbed “biotwang” was first heard bouncing around the Mariana Trench 10 years ago, and scientists have finally figured out where it comes from | Continue reading
On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Central Europe and North Carolina have both been drenched by torrential rains | Continue reading
Rather than building an obsolescent, obscenely-over-budget jumbo rocket, NASA should turn to building truly innovative space technologies and plan a realistic lunar landing program | Continue reading
These sickle cell researchers and advocates are driving change from labs to global stages, transforming lives in the process. | Continue reading
The FDA recently approved three sickle cell drugs, and dozens more are in development | Continue reading
Time lags between discoveries and awards show how the Nobel Prizes reward science | Continue reading
Can you find the number that doesn't belong? | Continue reading
In Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer explores the mysteries in his Southern Reach Trilogy | Continue reading
You have around 35 trillion red blood cells moving around your body at all times. Typically they are rounded and flexible. What happens when they aren’t? | Continue reading
A delightful course on keeping (and cracking) secrets | Continue reading
Letters to the editors for the May 2024 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
Research is revealing the key to motivating empathy—and making it stick | Continue reading
Days spent in a desk chair can lead to heart disease or cancer. Getting up often and exercising more vigorously can stave off the ill effects | Continue reading
Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories | Continue reading
This month’s issue covers the reasons it’s so hard to go back to the moon, the science of empathy and new advances in treating sickle cell disease | Continue reading
Illuminating the experience of people living with sickle cell could improve patients’ lives and enhance all of medicine | Continue reading
A biography of the scientist whose work led to fears of a ‘population bomb’ | Continue reading
When different chickadee species meet, they sometimes choose each other as mates—with surprising results | Continue reading
Best baseball batting order; mummies demystified | Continue reading
In a postapocalyptic world on the verge of its next crisis, history gets rewritten | Continue reading
Improving sickle cell care by expanding treatment options, advancing new therapies and amplifying the voices of people with the disease | Continue reading
A new generation of treatments addresses the trauma that often underlies addiction | Continue reading
In Pillars of Creation, Richard Panek gets up close to the JWST | Continue reading
Life expectancy for people with sickle cell in the U.S. has increased to about 50 years, but some people with the disease still face stigma and other barriers in health care | Continue reading
NASA's Artemis moon program faces challenges the Apollo missions never did | Continue reading
Increased funding and new public health policies for sickle cell research are needed to ease the burden on low-income nations and improve patient care | Continue reading
Sickle cell disease causes severe pain that’s hard to treat, but researchers are finding new ways to offer relief | Continue reading
The difficulties of the Svalbard seed repository illustrate why we need to prevent climate disaster rather than plan for it | Continue reading
The predictive value of childhood screenings for autism and other conditions depends on how common the condition is, a limit that parents need to understand | Continue reading
Study links choking under pressure to the brain region that controls movement | Continue reading
Kamala Harris has plans to improve health, boost the economy and mitigate climate change. Donald Trump has threats and a dangerous record | Continue reading
Predators’ electricity gives caterpillars an early warning | Continue reading
We can’t yet tell how life got its start on Earth. That’s one great reason to keep looking for life elsewhere | Continue reading
AI fights conspiracy theories, Massachusetts leads the way on waste reduction, and more in this week’s science news roundup | Continue reading
The year 2024 could easily shape up to be the hottest ever measured, climate scientists say | Continue reading
Scientists have traced a baffling monotonous planetary hum that lasted for nine days back to a glacier in Greenland | Continue reading
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, owes his superstar success to self-satisfied competitors who blew obvious opportunities | Continue reading
Supermoons are popular in the media, but are they really so different from how our extraordinary moon ordinarily appears? | Continue reading
NASA flight engineer Matthew Dominick’s astrophotography helps us see our world—from space. | Continue reading
Starting with her rejection of an FDA application for thalidomide in 1960, physician and pharmacist Frances Oldham Kelsey took a stand against the now infamous drug | Continue reading
A research consortium plans to revive geoengineering trials of the controversial iron fertilization technique to pull carbon dioxide from the air, despite public backlash | Continue reading
The world’s first commercial space walk, by billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, tested new technology and was practically flawless | Continue reading