We are really bad at navigating a key transition point during one of the most basic social interactions | Continue reading
We can never be sure if the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua, for example, was artificial—but we could be ready to answer that question for a future such visitor | Continue reading
The successor to the Hubble honors a man who took part in the effort to purge LGBT people from the federal workforce | Continue reading
Intranasal vaccines might stop the spread of the coronavirus more effectively than needles in arms | Continue reading
A study also found body-camera use and community policing increased in places with the most active movements | Continue reading
A study also found body-camera use and community policing increased in places with the most active movements | Continue reading
In 2020, mass shootings and hate crimes reached record highs. On January 6, 2021, a deadly mob stormed the US Capitol. In this eBook, we examine the factors that contribute to aggressive and brutal behavior, including its biological and genetic underpinnings, how intimacy and bia … | Continue reading
Pandemic highlights for the week | Continue reading
Today, we begin a new podcast series: "COVID, Quickly." Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors, Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman , catch you up on on the essential developments in the pandemic, from vaccines to the virus, and everything in between. | Continue reading
ICE detention centers have some of the worst outbreaks in the country, endangering migrants, staff and local communities | Continue reading
ICE detention centers have some of the worst outbreaks in the country, endangering immigrants, staff and local communities | Continue reading
How different messages motivate entrepreneurs | Continue reading
Deaf people are adapting signs to accommodate the limitations of video communication while working from home | Continue reading
Deaf people are adapting signs to accommodate the limitations of video communication while working from home | Continue reading
The failure of the U.S. to respond appropriately to the pandemic could have been predicted if anyone had bothered to ask social scientists | Continue reading
The public health system needs wide-ranging reform to address weaknesses exposed by the pandemic | Continue reading
You can call it the ‘revenge of the computer scientist.’ An algorithm that made headlines for mastering the notoriously difficult Atari 2600 game Montezuma’s Revenge, can now beat more games, achieving near perfect scores, and help robots explore real-world envi … | Continue reading
Julien d’Huy, of the Pantheon–Sorbonne University in Paris, talks about the use of evolutionary theory and computer modeling in the comparative analysis of myths and folktales, the subject of his article in the December 2016 Scientific American . | Continue reading
Open repository will give free access to more than 160 million data points with details about individual infections | Continue reading
Measures meant to tame the coronavirus pandemic are quashing influenza and most other respiratory diseases, which could have wide-ranging implications | Continue reading
Measures meant to tame the coronavirus pandemic are quashing influenza and most other respiratory diseases, which could have wide-ranging implications | Continue reading
Greater temperature swings and more intense rain and snow storms could alter avalanche dynamics | Continue reading
Top things our brains need to help us get through the coming months | Continue reading
Researchers identify a new insect-defense mechanism | Continue reading
In 1916, he strapped on his “safety hood” and dragged rescuers to safety, but racism prevented him from being hailed a hero | Continue reading
Cygnus X-1, the first black hole ever discovered, is significantly bigger than previously believed | Continue reading
Climate change may be playing a role as higher heat makes trees less resilient to pests | Continue reading
New experiments have answered the decades-old question of how pieces of splitting nuclei get their spins | Continue reading
Requirements that travelers be vaccinated must be implemented in a humanitarian way | Continue reading
Antonio Baines is trying to build a more diverse science, one student at a time | Continue reading
Even the smallest burial sites could help conserve natural habitats in agricultural landscapes | Continue reading
The pandemic infection seems to trigger diabetes in some patients. Here are five plausible explanations as to why | Continue reading
The NASA spacecraft has also snapped more shots of its surroundings and listened to a Martian wind gust | Continue reading
In the Rocky Mountains, dozens of small mammal species have shifted to higher elevations over time | Continue reading
Guaranteeing economic security is crucial; so is sending the message that every one of us matters | Continue reading
Trusted messengers and repeated reminders can overcome hesitancy, social science shows | Continue reading
The case history of a U.K. man in his 70s shows how selective “pressures” bring about viral mutations | Continue reading
Redesigning ship propellors and installing acoustic “curtains” could lower the volume on anthropogenic noise that disrupts ocean life | Continue reading
Decoy sea turtle eggs containing tracking tech are new weapons against beach poachers and traffickers. | Continue reading
Last week’s pinpoint touchdown of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater was historic for many reasons, chief among them the epochal nature of the mission’s task of seeking signs of ancient life—and caching relevant samples for eventual return to … | Continue reading
The state simultaneously has the highest-emissions grid in the country and leads the nation in wind power | Continue reading
False beliefs, similar to those seen in Alzheimer’s patients, may result from a lack of science literacy | Continue reading
The tech giant's ban on Australians searching for news on its platform suggests that equitable control of international reporting is very much a work in progress | Continue reading
The annual science education event describes imaginary encounters to teach ecology | Continue reading
The annual science education event describes imaginary encounters to teach ecology | Continue reading
Upgrades to the SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS) detection system offer advance notice of impending blasts | Continue reading
For centuries, right up until the 1960s, the notion life on Mars—and elsewhere—wasn't considered especially remarkable | Continue reading
Trick question, since dolphins obviously don’t have hands—but studying whether they have “handedness” led to identifying a quirk of human perception | Continue reading