Scientific American spoke with Zeldovich about the differences between bacteriophages and antibiotics, the history of bacteriophage experimentation, and the therapy’s potential future regulation ...

RFK, Jr., Could Run the Agency That Oversees CDC, FDA and NIH. Here’s What That Means for Public Health RFK, Jr., could restructure the CDC, FDA and NIH in pursuit of his flawed vision of public ...

I routinely control my own dreams. During a recent episode, in my dream laboratory, my experience went like this: I was asleep on a twin mattress in the dark lab room, wrapped in a cozy duvet and ...

“The FAA continues to support interagency partners to assess the situation and the ongoing reported drone sightings,” a representative of the agency told Scientific American. But just how many ...

In recent years a number of clever coin-weighing or ball-weighing problems have aroused widespread interest. Here is a new and charmingly simple variation. You have 10 stacks of coins, each ...

Below, Scientific American has rounded up some of the things we learned about animals this year that gave us a good chuckle and brightened our days a bit. Synchronization of muscle contraction in ...

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This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

Prime numbers—numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves—have long fascinated mathematicians. This year a researcher discovered the largest known prime number, with a whopping 41,024,320 ...

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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. If you’re one of the many folks who eagerly awaits the arrival of Spotify Wrapped each December, you might ...

in an interview with Scientific American. “Being able to sense stress from another member of the pack was likely beneficial because it alerted them of a threat that another member of the group ...