The so-called “satiating diet” seems to help people manage weight and good health without going to extremes | Continue reading
The skin of the zebra fish, transparent for the first few days of the organism’s life, is helping scientists address deafness, the Zika virus, and much more | Continue reading
Euclid’s proof of the infinitude of primes opens the door to some interesting questions | Continue reading
Are they the first animal embryos? 20 years post-discovery, these and other fossils from the 600-million-year-old Doushantuo Formation remain frustratingly enigmatic | Continue reading
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Murray Gell-Mann’s first paper on quarks, Gell-Mann biographer George Johnson has written several terrific posts about one of the truly great theoristsand charactersof modern physics. | Continue reading
NASA's Insight lander is already pretty dirt-covered, but Mars may help clean it up | Continue reading
New research is shedding light on how intelligence changes and develops over time | Continue reading
A new analysis of fossil beasts adds a new wrinkle to the story of when the Age of Mammals really took off | Continue reading
Relational quantum mechanics suggests physics might be a science of perceptions, not observer-independent reality | Continue reading
Renewable energy carbon-capture technologies, efficiency measures, reforestation and other steps are important—but they won’t get us there | Continue reading
Traditional stewardship rights have shielded many of the ecosystems that are still standing | Continue reading
Of all of that precious metal ever refined, 600 tons were created in a collision between two neutron stars, 1,000 light-years away and 4.6 billion years ago | Continue reading
On June 6, a panel of experts convened by Scientific American and Nature Research—part of Springer Nature—will talk about the issue and possible solutions in Washington, DC | Continue reading
We should stop being so embarrassed by uncertainty and embrace it as a strength rather than a weakness of scientific reasoning | Continue reading
It’s counterintuitive, but let’s temporarily increase carbon dioxide emissions in order to get rid of a more potent greenhouse gas | Continue reading
Rethinking computation casts light on free will, intelligence and more | Continue reading
Saying you care about the environment a bit is hollow if you’re not ready to change your diet | Continue reading
Infertility is on the rise, but one major cause—polycystic ovarian syndrome—gets too little attention | Continue reading
It will forever remind me that ALS took my mom away | Continue reading
So how should they go about it? | Continue reading
Highlights from an hour-long panel of Kavli and Nobel prizewinners at the National Academy of Sciences | Continue reading
We need to let non-scientists know that science isn't based on "proof," but rather on the practice of testing and checking one another's work | Continue reading
A cutting-edge therapy currently used for blood cancers is now being adapted to fight solid tumors | Continue reading
Ocean microbes long thought to depend exclusively on eating turn out to have a solid, if sinister, Plan B | Continue reading
A roundup of recent research with astrobiological implications | Continue reading
A biologist-philosopher cautions against banishing from our worldview things that science cannot comprehend | Continue reading
Fossils found in New Mexico reveal a carnivorous dinosaur from before the time of T. rex | Continue reading
Moon Duchin shares an abstract theorem with surprising connections to gerrymandering | Continue reading
Thirty-nine years ago today, Mount St. Helens erupted in a rare lateral blast, and changed volcanology forever. | Continue reading
It's not just bad storytelling—it’s because the storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological | Continue reading
All most people hear about is quantum computing, but that's hardly the whole story | Continue reading
It's not just bad storytelling—it’s because the storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological | Continue reading
Freedom of choice is an American value—but people without resources don’t have much of a choice | Continue reading
When people are forced to uproot in the face of catastrophe, they risk losing a link with their past | Continue reading
They’re magical, yes, but there’s a dark side to those flickering spots of light—including, in some cases, “kleptoparasitism” | Continue reading
A new poll estimates flat-Earth belief in the U.K. at 1 percent | Continue reading
Opportunities are everywhere, and training opens the way | Continue reading
Even the Ancient Greeks knew it | Continue reading
No: the give-and-take that happens behind the scenes is an essential part of the scientific process | Continue reading
To make that happen, a powerful and diverse coalition must arise | Continue reading
Our society should offer multiple routes to high school graduation | Continue reading
The benefits of failure | Continue reading
The latest climate models are giving disturbing answers | Continue reading
Staring at somebody’s face for ten minutes may give you nightmares | Continue reading
This holey mathematical object was discovered by a Swiss mathematician and then forgotten for decades | Continue reading
Fire chaser beetles' ability to sense heat borders on the spooky | Continue reading