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Chikungunya Outbreak, Glacial Outbursts and a New Human Ancestor

Dinner with King Tut Explores the Wild World of Experimental Archaeology

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Condoms and Vasectomies Aren’t Enough—Is a Male Birth Control Pill Next?

Cosmic Discoveries Soar as Earthly Health Decisions Stir Alarm

Climate Science Gets a Seat in Congress with Eric Sorensen

Former NASA Leaders Are Sounding the Alarm on Budget Cuts

Russia’s Earthquake, Wonders of Walking and Surprising Plant Genetics

Is AI Conscious? Claude 4 Raises the Question

Your Guide to Summer’s Extreme Weather, from Corn Sweat to Flash Floods

Summer Meteor Showers, Short Summer Days and Ancient Arthropods

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is at Risk—And So Are We

What to Read on the Beach This Summer

Time Travel to Tide Pool 101 from Our July 1925 Issue

Dungeons and Dragons’ Popularity Grows—And Science Follows

The LIGO Lab Is Pushing the Boundaries of Gravitational-Wave Research

In this episode of Scientific American's Science Quickly podcast, Rachel Feltman interviews Matthew Evans, MIT's MathWorks Professor of Physics, at the LIGO Lab about the hunt for gravitational waves. Evans explains that gravitational waves are ripples in space-time, detectable by LIGO's interferometers, which measure ...

This Surgery Can Lead to Weight Loss—But Stigma Is Harder to Shake Off

In this episode of Scientific American Science Quickly, Rachel Feltman interviews Dr. Larissa McGarrity about her research on weight stigma and its impact on patients undergoing bariatric surgery. The study revealed that while some patients experienced reduced weight stigma after surgery, a significant percentage conti...

Why Do We Sing? Musicologists and Neuroscientists Seek an Answer

What Does an Ailing Coral Reef Sound Like?

An Astronaut Shares His Passion for Space Photography—Live, from the ISS Cupola