Specialists speculate that it might be similar to a U.S. spaceplane, and it could have research or military uses | Continue reading
More sustainable ways of removing persistent chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from the environment are on the horizon. | Continue reading
Kissing probably predates Homo sapiens as a species, but the first texts documenting the beso go back to the early Bronze Age | Continue reading
New research says climate change was responsible for yet another withering heat wave, which baked South Asia in April | Continue reading
White dwarfs, Earth-sized exoplanets, early galaxies and even Saturn’s moon Enceladus are on the agenda for JWST’s second year in space, but exomoons and others miss out | Continue reading
Researchers show how tiny Arctic foxes travel thousands of kilometers for space—revealing potential disease pathways | Continue reading
AI powered facial recognition will lead to increased racial profiling | Continue reading
Dozens of people reported tremors, but seismologists say there was no earthquake | Continue reading
One of the next five years will almost certainly be the hottest on record, and there’s a two-in-three chance one year will cross the crucial 1.5 degrees C global warming threshold | Continue reading
Stone engravings of ancient megastructures called desert kites may be the earliest “blueprints” ever discovered | Continue reading
Genetic resilience found in a person predisposed to early-onset dementia could potentially lead to new treatments | Continue reading
A book-shaped rock spotted by the Curiosity rover on Mars is the result of an interplay of wind, water—and the human brain | Continue reading
Facing Russia’s nuclear threats, the U.S. and its allies must not whitewash their own | Continue reading
Solar-powered balloons detected strange, ultra low-frequency rumblings in Earth’s stratosphere that, so far, scientists can’t identify | Continue reading
A debate has been settled over the earliest animal ancestor—a free-swimming creature with a well-developed nervous system | Continue reading
Oil companies can’t be trusted in times of disaster; just ask an Alaskan | Continue reading
Electric cars alone can’t solve our emissions problem | Continue reading
Legislators, families and advocates are fighting to protect access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth and adults nationwide | Continue reading
Legislators, families and advocates are fighting to protect access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth and adults nationwide | Continue reading
We learn the story of "Ella" a patient with 12 different parts, and of her therapist, who helped her form a peaceful community—many selves in one body and mind. | Continue reading
For at least three years, the mysterious blast has shined ten times brighter than any supernova | Continue reading
A CRISPR gene-editing technique might have finally cracked the mystery of how death cap mushrooms kill and revealed a possible antidote | Continue reading
The Energy Department is launching an initiative to mimic climate disasters and other threats against the power grid | Continue reading
Academics can do more to help disadvantaged communities in the U.S. | Continue reading
People who raise animals for slaughter do hard, emotional labor that spares everyone else who eats meat from that burden, concludes a sociologist | Continue reading
A new study reveals why handmade fermentation vessels called onggi stand the test of time | Continue reading
The DNA you shed everywhere could be used to identify you, and experts are concerned | Continue reading
Criminalizing patients could have adverse consequences, experts warn | Continue reading
Permafrost can—incongruously—be found in Hawaii, but surveys show it has been shrinking over time, in part because of climate change | Continue reading
Launching a fleet of space telescopes is not the solution to the Starlink problem | Continue reading
Two SciAm editors duke it out to see if wormholes and multiverses could in fact exist. | Continue reading
Western individualism may promote a “better than you actually are” mindset | Continue reading
At 25 days old, these specimens could be the oldest primate embryos ever grown outside the womb | Continue reading
Betelgeuse, the red star at the shoulder of the constellation Orion, has been acting strange, raising hopes for the spectacle of a lifetime | Continue reading
Channeling Thomas Edison and Salvador Dalí, researchers show that shaping dream imagery could spark creative ideas to target a specific problem | Continue reading
Mistaken fossil identity in India, decrypted letters of an imprisoned Scottish queen, marsupials seeking marsupials Down Under, and more in this month’s Quick Hits | Continue reading
Efforts to eradicate invasive rats that have decimated native species on islands around the world are beginning to bear fruit | Continue reading
The U.K.’s fertility regulator reveals that at least one child has been born using mitochondrial replacement therapy, but the procedure’s effectiveness remains to be seen | Continue reading
A potentially record-setting heat wave is headed for the Pacific Northwest and western Canada, a sign of the shift to hotter—and earlier—summers | Continue reading
U.S. Food and Drug advisers show unanimous support to approve the use of the birth control medication Opill without a prescription | Continue reading
Under former president Jair Bolsonaro, scientific misinformation ran rampant through Brazil; and even with new leadership, it will be difficult to stop | Continue reading
Physicists have put the largest-ever object into a quantum superposition | Continue reading
Brain fog is such a nebulous term in long COVID that it delegitimizes efforts to get disability accommodations and medical leave | Continue reading
Adverse early childhood experience leaves persisting traces in brain structure, highlighting the importance of preventive measures for healthy brain development | Continue reading
The newest SARS-CoV-2 strain may cause red, watery eyes. But the symptom can have other causes, too | Continue reading
Laser-based optical frequency combs, originally developed to time atomic clocks, can also perform fast, noninvasive tests for COVID—and potentially other diseases as well | Continue reading
Parrot nestlings spend time stringing together jumbled mixtures of sound—a rehearsal for more adult conversations | Continue reading
An mRNA vaccine prevented tumor recurrence after surgery in eight of 16 patients, but the therapy still needs to be validated in larger trials | Continue reading