Scientific American magazine covers all areas of recent news in Neuroscience, Ecology, Technology, Meteorology and Botany. Honestly, this magazine has it all. There are multiple articles discussing ...

Enjoy the two new columns in this issue: a crossword by Aimee Lucido that features clues related to articles in the issue and ...

See the year’s most striking images from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, NASA’s Mars rover and the best sky ...

With a possible bird flu outbreak looming, Donald Trump’s choice of Jay Bhattacharya, a scientist critical of COVID policies, ...

“The Quantum Observer,” by Anil Ananthaswamy [July/August], notes that outcomes in quantum mechanics depend on observations and asks whether the observer must be a human being. It seems very ...

Unless we pursue AI carefully, the Nobel committee will one day give a Peace Prize to the people cleaning up its terrible ...

Life on our planet has experienced many mass extinctions over its 4.5 billion years. Scientists see evidence for at least five major episodes that eradicated creatures great and small. And many ...

The centennial of the discovery of brain waves in humans exposes a chilling tale involving Nazis, war between Russia and ...

“The most puzzling aspect of the recent discovery of a new kind of subnuclear particle at two high-energy-­physics laboratories is the particle’s extra­ordinarily long lifetime of 10 –20 ...

Still, some research on the vagus nerve is intriguing enough—and promising enough—to draw serious scientific attention ... pressed against the neck, was American neurologist James Leonard ...

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