Tragedy of the White Tiger | Scientific American
Most white tigers come from inbreeding, which harms the animals—but generates big profits for some owners| Scientific American
Most white tigers come from inbreeding, which harms the animals—but generates big profits for some owners| Scientific American
Older people show significant cognitive benefits from learning, provided they have the opportunity to do so| Scientific American
Climate-fueled heat has caused thousands of excess deaths over the past three summers, which were the three hottest on record| Scientific American
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Some news reports suggested that Deep Blue might have lost the match because of human error, such as your tinkering with Deep Blue's program between match one, which Deep Blue won, and match two, which the computer lost.| Scientific American
In the 40 years since this magazine published the original prospectus for a chess computer, machines have vanquished first novices, then masters and now grandmasters. Will Gary Kasparov be next?| Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.| Scientific American
People are far too reluctant to ask for help, research shows| Scientific American
Rachel S. Herz, an assistant professor of psychology at Brown University, provides the following explanation:| Scientific American
Researchers hope the finding could point to new therapeutic approaches for the disease| Scientific American
HINT: Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on “process”—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life| Scientific American
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune diseases| Scientific American
Heat waves kill more people than any other type of severe weather in the U.S. And climate change is making them more frequent and unpredictable| Scientific American
Communities in certain spots around the world, such as Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Central America, are likely to experience record-breaking heat events but may not be prepared| Scientific American
Children “are not little adults”—they have more trouble regulating temperature than adults do| Scientific American
Some might like it hot, but extreme heat can overpower the human body. An expert from the CDC explains how heat kills and why fans are worthless in the face of truly high temperatures| Scientific American
Annual worker productivity losses from extreme heat amounted to $44 billion on average across 12 cities and are projected to rise to $84 billion by 2050| Scientific American
Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server| Scientific American
Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy, eliminating all fossil fuels. Here's how| Scientific American
The former director of a CDC center reveals how political ideology is undermining science, threatening vaccine policy and endangering public health across the U.S.| Scientific American
Seven steps for more inclusive and productive virtual brainstorming| Scientific American
Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches| Scientific American
Elon Musk’s Fork in the Road isn’t just a sculpture—it’s a monument to the tech world’s obsession with civilizational survival, which has its roots in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence| Scientific American
The Jackson, Miss., disaster rings alarm bells about myriad problems lurking in water systems across the country| Scientific American
Eight smart limbs plus a big brain add up to a weird and wondrous kind of intelligence| Scientific American
Distinct genetic and biological causes for psychiatric disorders are hard to nail down, says DIBS member and psychology & neuroscience professor Avshalom Caspi in Scientific American.| News RSS Feed
Cephalopods have developed unique visual systems to deal with their underwater world| Scientific American
NOAA and the NWS provide public weather data that private companies cannot recreate| Scientific American
Forecasters depend on satellites and flights to track hurricanes—but balloons add crucial precision| Scientific American
The Trump administration has proposed gutting NOAA’s cooperative institutes, which study everything from improving lifesaving weather forecasts to monitoring fish stocks| Scientific American
More tornadoes than usual have already struck the U.S. in 2025—and many of them have been touching down farther east than they had in the past| Scientific American
Why some tornadoes are able to travel so far and persist so long| Scientific American
Hurricane forecasters are debuting a new model they hope will better predict when some storms will suddenly and explosively intensify| Scientific American
Florida’s codes rank high, but those of Texas, Mississippi and Alabama are low| Scientific American
The U.S. has already seen a record number of disasters costing at least $1 billion in 2023, which underscores how unprepared the nation is to withstand climate-driven catastrophe| Scientific American
The Food and Drug Administration plans to update the safety label for acetaminophen products, and the strongest storm on Earth this year struck several countries in East and Southeast Asia.| Scientific American
The technology lets people with paralysis perform thought dictation at rates approaching the thumb speeds of texters| Scientific American
His start-up Neuralink is not the first to develop a wireless brain implant. But the considerable resources behind the effort could help commercialize the technology faster| Scientific American
Climate scientists are excited for the billions of dollars the Inflation Reduction Act will pour into fighting climate change but urge further action| Scientific American
Artificial tissues that mimic the placenta, endometrium, ovary and vagina could point to treatments for common conditions such as preeclampsia and endometriosis| Scientific American
A museum exhibit in Australia lets visitors hear music generated by brain cells derived from the blood of a dead composer.| Scientific American
Gaslighting isn’t just between people in a relationship—it involves social power, too| Scientific American
On Thursday Senators grilled Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., about vaccines and turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health experts responded to Kennedy’s claims on social media in disbelief and anger| Scientific American
Carla Brodley, founding executive director of the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University, explains how to make computer science education more accessible to everyone| Scientific American
Stephen Morris, professor of experimental nonlinear physics at the University of Toronto, maintains a Web page on just this topic. So we asked him to tackle the question:| Scientific American
Cells in cow udders could act as a site for human flu and bird flu viruses to swap genes and generate dangerous novel strains| Scientific American
The infection rate of one type of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bacteria has risen by more than 460 percent in recent years. Scientists say people receiving treatment in hospitals are at highest risk| Scientific American
The Trump administration is backing leucovorin as a treatment for autism, despite limited evidence. Some doctors and researchers are concerned| Scientific American
Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that gas furnaces cost less to run and burn cleaner than their oil counterparts? If I make the switch, how long should I expect it to take for me to pay back my initial investment? And are there any greener options I should consider? | Scientific American
The outlook on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease is brighter than ever. Backed by decades of research, the field is beginning to see tangible success in moving basic biological insights into actual diagnostics and therapeutics.| Scientific American
President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have tied Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiencies to rising autism rates—but the evidence is thin| Scientific American
Breakthrough therapies, new diagnostics and preventive measures for fighting a devastating disease| Scientific American
More than 13.8 million Americans could have Alzheimer’s by 2060, and at the rate care facilities are closing, many of them will have nowhere to go. Regina Shih of the State Alzheimer’s Research Support Center (StARS) wants to help solve that problem| Scientific American
While our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease is far from complete, the latest therapies, and others in more than 100 clinical trials, offer new hope| Scientific American
Black Americans face a significantly higher risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias than white Americans. Researchers are working to find out why that is and how to intervene| Scientific American
The problem of weightless writing was not solved by either Soviet central planning or good old American sub-contracting, but by a private investor and a good idea| Scientific American
New research helps unravel how vast amounts of plastic particles travel—both regionally and globally—on the wind| Scientific American
Mounting evidence shows the endocrine-disrupting chemicals in plastics are harmful to human health| Scientific American
We go straight to the source and get Bluetooth executive director Michael Foley to wirelessly transmit an answer to this query.| Scientific American
New regulations, and satellites such as MethaneSat, very likely will not cut methane emissions. Natural gas industry economics will instead continue delaying their needed reduction| Scientific American
More moisture in a warmer atmosphere is fueling intense hurricanes and flooding rains| Scientific American
Chief among them are convincing other countries to sign on and putting specific policies in place| Scientific American
Einstein’s thought experiments left a long and somewhat mixed legacy of their own| Scientific American
More insights on a positive side of a “disorder”| Scientific American
Mathematicians want to think their field is a meritocracy, but bias, harassment and exclusion persist| Scientific American
Words frequently used by ChatGPT, including “delve” and “meticulous,” are getting more common in spoken language, according to an analysis of more than 700,000 hours of videos and podcasts| Scientific American
A new study demonstrates the power of music to alter our emotional perceptions of other people| Scientific American
This gruesome parasite is more of a threat to your burger than to you| Scientific American
Sunshine may hold healing rays for a variety of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Scientists are turning this surprising discovery into treatments| Scientific American
Mark Ford, fabrication development manager at AFG Industries, Inc., explains:| Scientific American
Houseplants become rechargeable night-lights after injection with tiny phosphor particles| Scientific American
A new brain prosthesis can read out inner thoughts in real time, helping people with ALS and brain stem stroke communicate fast and comfortably| Scientific American
Though the Fibonacci sequence shows up everywhere in nature, these young mathematicians were surprised to find it in the answer to a variation of the pick-up sticks problem—a nearly two-century-old form of puzzle| Scientific American
Feeding infants allergenic foods may be the key to preventing allergies| Scientific American
Remarkable new treatments can free millions of kids and adults from the deadly threat of peanut allergy, tackling one of our fastest-growing medical problems| Scientific American
The Office for Long COVID Research and Practice was instrumental in coordinating the U.S. government’s initiatives to treat, diagnose and prevent the mysterious postviral condition that affects millions of people today| Scientific American
Today this material can seal pipes and brave the ocean. But someday it could be used in surgery or underwater repairs| Scientific American
The cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, flourishes in countries suffering from poor sanitation and urban crowding. Now a new study suggests that the presence of human beings can make the disease more communicable. Findings published today in the journal Nature indicate that passage through the human digestive system produces a version of the bacteria up to 700 times more infectious than the same bacteria originating in water or soil.| Scientific American
Trillions of tiny animals may be coordinating their movements in ways that affect every organism on the planet| Scientific American
Here’s why the CDC is so concerned about deadly flesh-eating bacteria and ways to avoid being infected| Scientific American
A recent study found that Hurricane Ian led to a spike in cases of vibriosis, a life-threatening illness caused by water-borne Vibrio bacteria| Scientific American
Rip currents pose a danger to swimmers at the beach, but they also play an important ecological role in the ocean| Scientific American
Dark Matter coverage from Scientific American, featuring news and articles about advances in the field.| Scientific American
Over 10 days, researchers participating in the once-a-decade “Snowmass process” attempted to build a unified scientific vision for the future of particle physics| Scientific American
Astrophysicists have piled up observations that are difficult to explain with dark matter. It is time to consider that there may be more to gravity than Einstein taught us| Scientific American
The hunt for dark matter is in crisis, and it’s time for radical new ideas to explain our universe| Scientific American
The world’s deepest and largest underground laboratory is scaling up its search for dark matter| Scientific American
If the invisible matter does not appear in experiments or particle colliders, we may have to find it in space| Scientific American
When infections such as COVID go global, what chance do we have of ridding the world of the pathogen responsible?| Scientific American
After Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and other major tragedies, the U.S. has examined itself to see how to prevent the next catastrophe. We need to do the same for the COVID pandemic| Scientific American
The declaration was made because of the risk the virus poses to countries outside China, where limited person-to-person spread has occurred| Scientific American
Historians of the 1918 influenza pandemic discuss lessons for what the future of COVID might look like| Scientific American
Here’s how to plan COVID-safer holiday get-togethers, using websites that show viral levels in wastewater| Scientific American
COVID has jostled people’s emotional equilibrium. Therapy apps, telehealth, lay counselors and psilocybin are poised to change the foundations of caregiving| Scientific American
Measures meant to tame the coronavirus pandemic are quashing influenza and most other respiratory diseases, which could have wide-ranging implications| Scientific American
Assigning a cause of death is never straightforward, but data on excess deaths suggest coronavirus death tolls are likely an underestimate| Scientific American
When the U.S.’s national public health emergency for COVID expires on May 11, some costs will shift to the private sector and consumers| Scientific American
The rapid spread of new variants such as Omicron offers clues to how SARS-CoV-2 is adapting and how the pandemic will play out over the next several months| Scientific American
Companies are experimenting with deep-sea tech to produce cheaper fresh water| Scientific American
Desynchronizing a monkey’s brain with electricity caused a performance boost| Scientific American
