Does the new strain sweeping the globe mean COVID will become ever more contagious? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Does the new strain sweeping the globe mean COVID will become ever more contagious? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
E-mailed exchanges show the space agency’s internal struggle to address pleas to change the controversial name of its latest, greatest observatory -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
How do we navigate the post-truth era, when there is no longer an expectation that politicians or pundits will be honest? In this eBook, we break down the science of deception so that we can protect ourselves against it. We look at human perception and how those perceptions are i … | Continue reading
Data show alarming declines in wildlife but also point to ways to save it -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
These events can cause devastating landslides and flash floods -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Gender bias turns up in the way we think of the most neutral of words -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything i … | Continue reading
The Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes in December -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Radical reconstruction in Seattle is bringing nearly dead urban streams back to productive life -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
An International Space Station project is “one small step” for off-world fieldwork -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
This “keystone” variant of a gene could make or break a food web in an experimental system -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
The Telomere-to-Telomere consortium just sequenced the tricky final 10 percent of the essentially complete human genome -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Blazes burned more than 3 million acres last year—nearly the size of Connecticut -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
I am a future psychiatrist hoping to care for transgender people. But I fear these laws will make it difficult to do so -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
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Small flies’ extreme clamping feet let them walk on a flying bee -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Citizen science data reveal how the declining species travels from its southern wintering site to its northern breeding grounds -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Before she entered a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons, who was Klára von Neumann? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
The Biden administration’s Test to Treat program aims to make the treatments available at pharmacies, yet it requires a medical provider to prescribe the drugs -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
The General Services Administration oversees $75 billion in annual contracts -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Called Earendel, the star is nearly 13 billion light-years from Earth -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Florida manatees are "talking" up a storm, and a team that has been recording those sounds for seven years is starting to understand the chatter. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Humans have shifted the weight of life in the sea -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
The weapons are error-prone and could hit the wrong targets -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
An updated communication could be beamed out for space alien listeners in hopes of making first contact -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Even after four years away from a release site, pigeons took similar paths home -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
A new library dedicated to the vivid imagination of novelist Haruki Murakami and an increasingly digitized, almost century-old theater museum showcase the strengths of Waseda University's cultural studies hub | Continue reading
Researchers have sighted only a handful of these odd radio circles, and are trying to pin down what causes them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
More than $11 billion would go toward international initiatives such as the Green Climate Fund -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Recent measures in Florida, Texas and elsewhere serve to traumatize trans children and their families, uphold ideas that trans children are inherently troubled, and go against medical advice -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Though this particular collapse is not a major concern, events like it are becoming more common -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
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What happens when a deadly virus hits a vulnerable society -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Overheating is a major problem for today’s computers, but those of tomorrow might stay cool by circumventing a canonical boundary on information processing -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Crowded shelters and destroyed healthcare facilities will likely exacerbate COVID, TB and other diseases -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
The country is about to reach an unthinkably grim milestone. Nearly 200,000 children have lost parents, many more elderly have been killed, and family well-being has been ripped apart -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Rather than take a side, these campaigns create decision paralysis that leads to inaction -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
A statistcal analysis finds evidence for shooting streaks in real game situations -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Researchers are trying to establish whether existing COVID-19 vaccines and treatments can prevent lasting symptoms -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Dennis Sullivan’s work has advanced the study of shapes, and he developed tools that have helped to solve many mathematical problems -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Surprising supply chain breakdowns -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
When networking, women and people in racial and ethnic minority groups can benefit from calling out their identity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
A bioreactor-made material is being marketed as an animal-friendly leather alternative that also aims to help save the planet -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Saliva PCR tests developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and others may detect infections earlier in the course of an infection -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
COVID energized the Black Lives Matter movement—and provoked a dangerous backlash -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
The need to reinvent the World Health Organization has become abundantly clear -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading