Carbon Pricing Is Not a Fix for Climate Change

The problem: developing countries can't afford to go along | Continue reading


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Racing toward Absolute Zero

A lab at the University of Cambridge is looking for materials that have weird quantum properties at the coldest temperatures possible | Continue reading


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A Swiss Army Knife for Your Mind

If you practice what you read in this article, your life will improve | Continue reading


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Bridging a Binary Universe

Modern physicists continue to enshrine the split between the heavens and the earth perceived by our ancestors | Continue reading


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Why Are Deepfakes So Effective?

It's because we often want them to be true . | Continue reading


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A Scientist Must Go Where the Evidence Leads

When our cherished ideas are contradicted by the facts, we must avoid the human tendency to double down on those ideas | Continue reading


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No, Climate Change Will Not End the World in 12 Years

Stoking panic and fear creates a false narrative that can overwhelm readers, leading to inaction and hopelessness | Continue reading


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Japanese Whaling Is Not the Greatest Threat to Whale Conservation

Global outrage should focus on North American fishing and shipping industries as well | Continue reading


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Is Guilt Good For Your Health?

Negative feedback helps some people make better health choices, but we need a different approach to motivate others | Continue reading


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The Quantum Computing Party Hasn't Even Started Yet

But your company may already be too late | Continue reading


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How Forests Pay Dividends

In a new study, we found that by the end of the century, substantial plant growth could help sequester fossil-fuel emissions—if we protect our forests | Continue reading


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How To Love Your Enemies

The behavioral science of DIY depolarization | Continue reading


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The Illusion of Safety

Eye surgery could cause you to misjudge distances while driving | Continue reading


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Paleontologists Unveil Shovel-Billed Dinosaur

A new hadrosaur from Texas has a striking, shovel-shaped mouth. | Continue reading


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We Should All Be Science Critics

A Harvard scholar says viewing science and technology with a critical eye can make the world a better place | Continue reading


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H3: The molecules that made the universe

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It's like an Analogy

Creative communication can help, or hurt, our attempts to bridge the divide between technically or emotionally disparate audiences | Continue reading


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What Threatened Lions Can Teach Us about the Circle of Life

On World Lion Day , it’s good to remember that there’s a global connectedness between ecosystems and the biodiversity they support | Continue reading


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Catastrophe by Mail

A gift led me to think about an old geologic controversy | Continue reading


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Introducing Registered Reports, a New Way to Make Science Robust

To encourage the replication of findings, we should ask researchers to describe their methods before they conduct experiments | Continue reading


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Tardigrades Were Already on the Moon

It may not be smart to add more, but nature probably beat us to it anyway | Continue reading


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The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction

Honor your right to disconnect, and focus on strengthening real relationships | Continue reading


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The Increasing Irrelevance of Climate Change Denial

Even if you don’t accept the science, you’ll need to deal with the consequences | Continue reading


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Businesses Need to Embrace the New Science of Learning

“Learning loops,” an innovative way employees can pick up new skills, are a good example | Continue reading


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A Bulwark Against Reef Destruction in a Warming World

The island of Bonaire, in the Caribbean Sea, has been protecting its corals for decades | Continue reading


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RFK's Secret Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

Recently declassified information shows the critical part JFK’s younger brother played in resolving the Cold War’s most dangerous moment | Continue reading


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Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? Blog Network

Research suggests it's largely because they're anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market and beset by racial fears | Continue reading


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Cancer Research in a Nutshell

A website called OncoBites offers short, easy-to-understand reports on what’s new in the field | Continue reading


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Government Scientists Are Censoring Themselves

It may not make headlines, but there's a lot of evidence that it's happening in the chilling environment the Trump administration has created | Continue reading


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The Only Way to Win Is Not to Play the Game

What to do with those pesky order of operations questions? | Continue reading


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Cancer Medicine Is Failing Us

Our aggressive, expensive approach to cancer is doing more harm than good | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

Making Things We Know Will Disappear

For those stifled by shades of perfectionism, temporary media can remind us how to create things for the fun of it | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

Fossils Show How Shovel-Beaked Dinosaurs Grew

A collection of tiny skull bones offers new insights to the early life of  Edmontosaurus | Continue reading


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Can Psychiatry Heal Itself?

A Harvard historian urges psychiatrists to focus less on making money and more on helping patients | Continue reading


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The Reciprocal Transit

Look who might be watching | Continue reading


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In Pursuit of Completeness

Sometimes mathematics chases its own tail | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

How to Resist the Lure of Overconfidence

A practical guide to putting things in perspective | Continue reading


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Confronting Flames, Floods and More in a Warming World

Communities are learning how to reshape landscapes ravaged by climate impacts | Continue reading


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We're Starting to Harness the Microbiome to Treat Disease

But strong regulation is a must to protect patient safety | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

The Problem with Levees

They can be very valuable tools for managing flood risk—but we learned a century ago that relying on them exclusively won't work | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

The Secret Life of Kudzu

A plant scorned as an invasive species offers a wealth of practical uses and cultural significance | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

New Research Reveals how Electrons Interact in Twisted Graphene

With our study, we may have gotten closer to solving the problem of high-temperature superconductivity | Continue reading


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Are You Scared of GMO Foods?

If so, says new research, learning the science behind them could change your mind | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

Psychedelic Medicine Is Coming. The Law Isn't Ready

A surprising resurgence of psychedelic research has produced its first FDA-approved treatment, with more likely on the way | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

Estrogens and Memory Loss in Women

Research suggests that the family of hormones has a crucial role in the hippocampus | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Science

Two high school students argue that STEM knowledge and skills are vital to maintaining democracy | Continue reading


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Lost Cities and Climate Change

Some people say “the climate has changed before,” as though that should be reassuring. It’s not | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

The Internet Is a Cesspool of Racist Pseudoscience

The author of Superior: The Return of Race Science knows this from firsthand experience | Continue reading


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