A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery| Scientific American
Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods| Scientific American
Learn the fundamentals of the burgeoning field of knot theory while solving some puzzles along the way| Scientific American
When space itself expands, weird things can happen—like galaxies breaking the universe’s ultimate speed limit| Scientific American
Step into a room so quiet you can hear your own heartbeat—and your nervous system.| Scientific American
Here are three big ways that Jane Goodall transformed science| Scientific American
President Trump’s budget office lays out guidelines for mass federal lay-offs as the U.S. government grinds to a halt| Scientific American
Is it really possible that half of all people who have ever been age 65 or older are still alive today? We explore the amazing mathematics of demography to find out| Scientific American
The anthropologist was famous for her pioneering research with chimpanzees and her influence on conservation| Scientific American
After years of heartbreak, researchers have found an experimental treatment that can slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, according to early results from a small clinical trial| Scientific American
The Department of Defense funds biomedical research to ensure military and pandemic preparedness. This includes mRNA vaccine projects that RFK, Jr., recently defunded| Scientific American
Maria Branyas Morera was the oldest person in the world when she died. Scientists analysed her genes, metabolism and more| Scientific American
Biomining uses engineered microbes to harvest critical minerals| 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
A fresh analysis of old data has found rich organic chemistry within the hidden ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus| Scientific American
President Trump says Tylenol is not safe for young children. Here’s what the science says about acetaminophen| Scientific American
Camels in ancient Arabia may have led hunter-gatherers through deserts once thought uninhabitable| Scientific American
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground| Scientific American
China’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases will largely determine the world’s emissions trajectory, researchers say| Scientific American
Scientists found new gecko species hidden in plain sight in pristine deserts of southern Africa, thanks to their loud, barking mating calls| Scientific American
A phenomenon called microlightning may explain ghostly blue marsh lights| Scientific American
In a version of the Fujiwhara effect, Hurricane Humberto is pulling Tropical Storm Imelda eastward and away from the U.S.| Scientific American
When more humans are added to a team, each member accomplishes less work—but teams of weaver ants do better and better as more join| 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
Untreated fevers during pregnancy can cause more harm than taking acetaminophen will| Scientific American
Participants in a new study were more likely to cheat when delegating to AI—especially if they could encourage machines to break rules without explicitly asking for it| 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
Hurricane Humberto and a system that may become Tropical Storm Imelda in the coming days are swirling quite close to each other in the western Atlantic Ocean| Scientific American
The National Institutes of Health is investing $50 million into research on genetic and environmental factors underlying autism—news that was eclipsed by President Donald Trump’s recent controversial claims about acetaminophen| Scientific American
Scientists electrically culled invasive fish in a 20-year battle—but the fish fought back with rapid evolution| Scientific American
Many asteroids are related, but their family trees can be hard to trace| 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
Nearly 100 years ago dozens of ships were abandoned in a shallow bay in the Potomac River. Today plants and animals are thriving on the skeletons of these vessels| Scientific American
An analysis of Taylor Swift’s interviews suggests her speech pattern has changed over her career| 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
Brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue, and those insights could help people connect with others| 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
Up to 98 percent of the energy of an earthquake goes into flash heating rocks, not shaking the ground, new research shows. The finding could help yield better earthquake forecasts| Scientific American
Mary Roach unpacks the millennia-long effort to replace failing body parts—and the reasons that modern medicine still struggles to match the original designs.| Scientific American
By understanding warning signs and talking to your child, parents can help reduce the risk of teen suicide| Scientific American
Lunar minerals can rust when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show| Scientific American
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) continues to affect infants and older and immunocompromised people around the world. These graphics reveal where the burden lies and what the effects of immunizations are| Scientific American
American Indian and Alaska Native infants experience the highest rates of RSV-related hospitalization in the U.S., but a breakthrough immunization is helping to close the gap| Scientific American
The year 2023 marked the debut of groundbreaking innovations to prevent severe RSV infections in infants. Now protected babies are way less likely to develop severe infections or to end up in the ICU| Scientific American
Abigail Echo-Hawk, a preeminent Native American public health expert, discusses RSV, “data genocide” and positive change driven by Indigenous storytelling| Scientific American
RSV is the leading cause of infant hospitalizations in the U.S. But that could soon change as research advances lead to new preventative drugs for everyone| Scientific American
A tragic RSV vaccine trial in the 1960s set the field back for decades. Here’s how scientists finally made breakthroughs in RSV immunization| Scientific American
The journey toward an RSV vaccine for children has been wrought with tragedy and setbacks. But six decades after scientists embarked on that path, they are nearing the finish line| 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
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
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