Repeated exposure to outrage-inducing news or events can lead to emotional exhaustion. An expert who studies online outrage ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

From shocking studies to ESP, what do you know about the most infamous and bizarre psychological experiments ever conducted?

In a broader context, the findings for math are less surprising. Girls earn better math grades than boys, for instance. Further, studies find that kids view success in school as being “for girls,” ...

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

Add a description, image, and links to the scientific-american topic page so that developers can more easily learn about it.

Does the "highly sensitive person" (HSP) label mask autism? Explore the scientific gaps in HSP, its overlap with autism, and ...

Many people seem satisfied by the answers these models offer. In one preprint study, people rated the responses that LLMs produced when presented with moral quandaries as more trustworthy, reliable ...

Should you throw out your black plastic spatula? A recent study that reported alarming levels of several flame retardants in common black-colored plastic items (including cooking utensils, toys ...

The ongoing bird flu outbreak in the U.S. just got a bit more concerning: a person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with the first severe case of infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus in ...

In 2022 physicists at the National Ignition Facility in California showed that it is possible to exceed what’s called scientific breakeven, in which a reactor makes more energy than what is ...

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 ...