A new generation of lab experiments is aiming to weigh neutrinos with astonishing accuracy | Continue reading
A California resident faces charges under a 2020 law that seeks to curb powerful planet-warming and ozone-depleting hydrofluorocarbons | Continue reading
Sammy Safari, a ranger in Kenya, stops poachers who hunt sea turtles—with education. | Continue reading
Schools of brainiac fish share “images” of nearby objects and use their extraordinary ability to see farther | Continue reading
Rotating detonation engines developed by NASA and others could spark a rocketry revolution | Continue reading
The Thirty Meter Telescope and Giant Magellan Telescope might need to compete for survival in the face of federal spending limits | Continue reading
The Census Bureau found that among nearly 2.5 million people displaced last year in the U.S. by tornadoes, wildfires and hurricanes, socially vulnerable groups were more strongly represented | Continue reading
Several branches of modern physics, including quantum theory and cosmology, suggest our universe may be just one of many | Continue reading
A former government official calls for investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena without succumbing to conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials | Continue reading
Sleep experts break down why some couples are choosing a “sleep divorce,” or opting to sleep alone instead of sharing a bed | Continue reading
Chinese researchers have found the gene responsible for the brown-and-white fur of a handful of giant pandas | Continue reading
A new catalog of more than 12,000 galaxy clusters is helping scientists better understand the universe’s clumpiness, dark energy and some of the smallest particles in the cosmos: neutrinos | Continue reading
Whether we live a million more years or another week is up to us | Continue reading
In states with high rates of Lyme disease, new reporting guidelines have revealed tens of thousands of previously overlooked cases--giving scientists a better understanding of the public health threat | Continue reading
Recent bacterial outbreaks from consuming cheese made from unpasteurized milk, or “raw milk,” raise questions about the safety of eating these artisanal products | Continue reading
Election polls are accurate but can only reveal voter intentions on the day they were taken. They don’t predict the future | Continue reading
Urinary tract infection symptoms can resurface long after bacteria are gone. A new study suggests nerve growth is to blame | Continue reading
The subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa may have far less oxygen—and less potential for life—than previously believed, according to data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft | Continue reading
Observations from MethaneSat could be used to independently verify industry reports and enforce regulations on fossil fuel companies | Continue reading
Digital books will never replace the tactile experience of paper books, but as part of bedtime reading and improving access to reading materials, they shouldn’t be counted as screen time | Continue reading
A new surface uses tiny gaps to supercharge bubble formation to transfer heat | Continue reading
Medical alarms don’t have to be louder to be more effective | Continue reading
Electron tornadoes that mimic “magnetic monopoles” emerge from specks of rust | Continue reading
Odd cell divisions could help explain why even young, healthy couples might struggle to get pregnant | Continue reading
Letters to the editors for the November 2023 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading
Every snowflake is different, but new technology reveals they all swirl the same | Continue reading
New insights into why animals play, how to hunt an asteroid, and more books out now | Continue reading
In babies, the right combo of gut bacteria might stave off later allergies, so scientists are testing “cocktails” of helpful microbes as therapy | Continue reading
Fossil-fuel companies use captured carbon dioxide to extract more fossil fuels, leading to a net increase in atmospheric CO2 | Continue reading
Tweets about climate change increase 80 percent when a hurricane hits and triple when the storm is a big one | Continue reading
We need to rethink the American love affair with the automobile and redesign cities to reduce car pollution | Continue reading
Hashish addiction; a pension for Madame Curie | Continue reading
Boundaries for preserving fresh water, biodiversity and other planetary resources tighten when they must also protect people | Continue reading
Marijuana’s health impacts—good and bad—are coming into focus | Continue reading
A newly discovered genetic mechanism helped eliminate the tails of human ancestors | Continue reading
Coral reefs hundreds of feet below the ocean surface aren’t as safe as scientists thought | Continue reading
Vittrup Man, who was bludgeoned to death in a Danish bog, was a Scandinavian wanderer, according to new research | Continue reading
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks will make its closest approach to the sun this April—right after North America is treated to a total solar eclipse | Continue reading
Sara Little Turnbull used materials science to invent and design products for the modern world | Continue reading
Snakes saw a burst of adaptation about 128 million years ago that led to them exploding in diversity and evolving up to three times faster than lizards | Continue reading
In the two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, a chasm has grown between Russian scientists who are studying the Arctic and their counterparts around the world | Continue reading
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope are exposing the pathways that water takes to reach terrestrial planets | Continue reading
Outside experts found that two studies cited in a federal case on medication abortion had serious design problems and that their authors had undisclosed conflicts of interest | Continue reading
Paleontology is rife with fake fossils that are made to cash in on illegal trade but end up interfering with science | Continue reading
Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission is the first U.S. soft landing on the moon since Apollo 17. It’s also a sign of private industry’s growing role in space | Continue reading
Scientists have finally found the compact object at the heart of the famous supernova of 1987, and it’s not a black hole | Continue reading
Without adding an extra day to February every four years, our calendar would get increasingly out of sync with the cosmos | Continue reading