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
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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
Quantum rivers, waterfalls and fountains you can see with your naked eye| Scientific American
When asked, ChatGPT declared that its training material—the language we humans use every day—was to blame for potential bias in stories it generated| Scientific American
Touch and emotional engagement boost early childhood development, but can children recover from neglectful environments?| Scientific American
Author Susan Cain explains the fallacy of "groupwork," and points to research showing that it can reduce creativity and productivity| Scientific American
Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts warn that it hasn’t disappeared| Scientific American
A water-moving science project from Science Buddies| Scientific American
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American| Scientific American
Scams and volatility plague this market, and the Biden administration is still trying to decide where the federal government fits in| Scientific American
IBM AI expert Murray Campbell reflects on the machine’s long, bumpy road to victory over chess champ Garry Kasparov| Scientific American
A federal task force should look seriously at investing in genomic methods that allow the simultaneous study of multiple genes| Scientific American
An advisory committee voted unanimously to recommend authorizing the Moderna and Pfizer shots for the youngest children| Scientific American
There’s a myth that it takes 21 days to form a habit. Experts explain why it might take some people longer—or shorter| Scientific American
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology| Scientific American
In psychologist Daniel Kahneman's recent book, he reveals the dual systems of your brain, their pitfalls and their power| Scientific American
Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your summer vacation| Scientific American
The National Weather Service issued timely alerts, meteorologists say, but few were listening in the hours before the early-morning flash floods along the Guadalupe River| Scientific American
People are far too reluctant to ask for help, research shows| Scientific American
Digestion is far too messy a process to accurately convey in neat numbers. The counts on food labels can differ wildly from the calories you actually extract, for many reasons| Scientific American
It’s time to use a term that more than 13,000 scientists agree is needed| Scientific American
The landmark Montreal Protocol treaty, agreed to 35 years ago this month, has reduced the use of chemicals that not only thinned the ozone layer but also warmed the planet| Scientific American
Chemical analyses of ancient sediments allowed scientists to put together one of the most comprehensive climate histories of the planet| Scientific American
Scientists have set thresholds for key environmental processes that, if crossed, could threaten Earth's habitability. Ominously, three have already been exceeded| Scientific American
More than one quarter of the more than 150,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species are threatened with extinction| Scientific American
The emerging and surprising view of how the enteric nervous system in our bellies goes far beyond just processing the food we eat| Scientific American
Scientific American’s staff share their favorite sci-fi books, from beloved classics to overlooked gems and our modern favorites| Scientific American
What would it take to create a cyborg brain like the one in the new TV show Murderbot? The answer reveals what makes our own brain so unique| Scientific American
Artificial intelligence algorithms will soon reach a point of rapid self-improvement that threatens our ability to control them and poses great potential risk to humanity| Scientific American
Enron, Google and the evolutionary psychology of corporate environments| Scientific American
Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series| Scientific American
By not going into the office, an at-home worker can cut greenhouse emissions in excess of 50 percent if they take energy-conservation steps| Scientific American
AI can allow engineers to focus on artistry over technical details for drone shows| Scientific American
Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy| Scientific American
Millions of people will view this spectacular event in person. Will you be one of them?| Scientific American
April 8, 2024’s total solar eclipse, visible from parts of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, is the last opportunity to see this phenomenon across North America until 2044| Scientific American
The sun’s magnetic poles are about to reverse as part of a regular 11-year sunspot activity cycle| Scientific American
Unique studies of gravity waves, atmospheric holes and dazzling coronal displays will accompany April’s total solar eclipse across the U.S., Mexico and Canada| Scientific American
Sensors will monitor solar emissions that threaten GPS and radio signals| Scientific American
We’re not going to stop taking pictures and recording movies, and we need to develop new ways to save them| Scientific American
Open-office designs create productivity and health problems. New insights from Deaf and autistic communities could fix them| Scientific American
Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today| Scientific American
The Cochrane Library, a trusted source of health information, misled the public by prioritizing rigor over reality| Scientific American
Scientists have finally figured out how to make heads or tails of starfish| Scientific American
Predictions for an above-average number of storms, communities that are still recovering and cuts to the National Weather Service have meteorologists and other experts worried about this hurricane season| Scientific American
Hurricane forecasters are debuting a new model they hope will better predict when some storms will suddenly and explosively intensify| Scientific American
Tropical Storm Otis rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane overnight in a region that has never seen landfall by a storm of such power before| Scientific American
Weather experts warn that staff cuts at the National Weather Service that have been made by the Trump administration are a danger to public safety as tornadoes, hurricanes and heat loom this spring and summer| Scientific American
Microwave satellite data are key to capturing major changes in a hurricane’s strength, such as when a storm undergoes rapid intensification. But a main source of those data is being abruptly shut off| Scientific American
To actually feel authentic, you might have to betray your true nature| Scientific American
Researchers demonstrate for the first time that using more qubits can lower the error rate of quantum calculations| Scientific American
The wealthiest person on Earth has taken the next step toward a commercial brain interface| Scientific American
After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his legacy and the future of physics| Scientific American
Thimerosal, which contains an organic compound of mercury, has mostly been phased out as a preservative for vaccines. Here’s how we know it is safe and why we still use it in some vaccines given to adults| Scientific American
Schools are missing an opportunity to boost learning by not tapping the teenage fixation on social life| Scientific American
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults| Scientific American
In the early 20th century, a mathematician and economist sought the optimal strategy for Holmes to escape Moriarty’s pursuit| Scientific American
The solar system’s outer limits aren’t as clear-cut as you might think| Scientific American
Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes, and trying to define them is difficult| Scientific American
The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes combined| Scientific American
Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory| Scientific American
For more than a century, cars have meant freedom, escape and self-reinvention to Americans. Now Tesla’s forthcoming Cybercab makes us ask whether we can have the romance of the open road without actually driving it| Scientific American
The Trump administration has acted fast to attack science with a range of funding and policy tactics| Scientific American
NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter airplane missions significantly increase the accuracy of hurricane forecasts, but President Trump’s proposed budget cuts jeopardize the data-gathering efforts and other forecasting tools| Scientific American
The Cassini orbiter will burn out, but its legacy won’t fade away| Scientific American
Spacecraft can get a significant boost by stealing energy from planets| Scientific American
Differences observed along the Cascadia Fault explain why certain areas see more rumbling| Scientific American
