VW Emissions Cheating Scandal Increased Children's Pollution Exposure  

Increased air pollution impacted low birth weights and asthma attacks, a federal economist says -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-17 09:12:48

What Alfred Binet and Maria Montessori Can Teach Us about Intelligence  

They found ways to develop human intellect, including in students thought to have limited prospects -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-17 07:31:10

Think You're Too Old to Learn New Tricks?  

Research shows that acquiring additional skills can be a terrific way to keep an aging brain in shape -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-17 06:18:17

Climate Solution: Use Carbon Dioxide to Generate Electricity  

Sending atmospheric CO2 into underground methane hydrates could clean the air and create revenue -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-17 04:57:57

Joseph Lange's Campaign Against HIV  

Seema Yasmin, director of research and education at the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, talks about her book The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man’s Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic.... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-17 04:56:15

The Neurodiversity Movement Should Acknowledge Autism as a Medical Disability  

Autism doesn’t have to define a person’s identity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-17 04:36:15

Elon Musk's Secretive Brain Tech Company Debuts a Sophisticated Neural Implant  

Neuralink says it can robotically implant more than 3,000 flexible-polymer electrodes in a rat or monkey brain. The device is still a long way from routine human use, however -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-17 01:05:17

Seabed-Mining Foes Press U.N. to Weigh Climate Impacts  

Minerals used in electronics are found on the seafloor, but disturbing them could release carbon -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-16 20:27:29

Attractive Young Females May Have Justice Edge  

Youths rated as attractive were less likely to have negative encounters with the criminal justice system—but only if they were women. Christopher Intagliata reports.  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-16 17:14:43

Special Report: What's Next for the Arctic?   

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what do you think? 2019-07-16 12:33:57

Taking the Bias Out of Pain Diagnosis  

Objective measures of pain could help alleviate inequitable medical treatment -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-16 09:20:41

The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11  

Celebrating the past and future of humans on the moon -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-16 06:12:35

Controversial Telescope Set to Begin Construction in Hawaii  

The Thirty Meter Telescope project has faced years of legal challenges over planned Mauna Kea site -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-16 06:11:41

Who Should Pay for "Moon Shots"?  

The federal government must step up funding of science and technology R&D -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-16 05:12:01

The Brain in Images: Top Entries in the Art of Neuroscience  

Scientific American presents the winner and runners-up of the ninth annual Art of Neuroscience contest, along with other notable entries -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-16 03:59:28

Ancient Mongolian Nests Show Dinosaurs Protected Their Eggs  

The fossils provide the first clear example of group nesting activities in dinosaurs -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-16 01:43:35

Tobacco Plants Made To Produce Useful Compounds  

A proof-of-concept study got transgenic tobacco plants to make a useful enzyme in their chloroplasts, not nuclei, minimizing chances for transfer to other organisms. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-15 19:09:03

Humans May Be Accidentally Geoengineering the Oceans  

Iron particles released by industrial activities are falling into the seas in greater quantities than previously thought -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-15 17:43:16

Why the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Is So Special to Me  

My dad worked for NASA, recruited John Glenn and knew Neil Armstrong -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-15 06:03:02

Why Doctors Are Drowning in Medical School Debt  

A resident physician investigates the causes of skyrocketing tuition -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-15 05:56:39

Silica Blankets Could Make Mars Habitable  

Thin layers of lightweight aerogel might be the main ingredient for making regions of the Red Planet more Earth-like -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-15 04:40:46

Anorexia May Be Linked to Metabolism, a Genetic Analysis Suggests  

A large, correlation-based study identifies eight genome regions associated with the eating disorder -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-15 04:05:53

How to Stop Prisons from Laying the Groundwork for a Fatal Overdose  

A Rhode Island program to prevent ex-inmate relapses and deaths is working -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-15 01:59:55

Striped Maples Can Change Sex Repeatedly  

Unassuming tree has unusual sex life -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-14 16:08:26

Is Medicine Overrated?  

Given medicine’s poor record, physicians should prescribe and patients consume far fewer medications, a new book argues. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-14 07:59:27

A Strange Dinosaur's Unusual Strut  

A newly named dinosaur balanced on one toe of each foot -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-14 04:52:37

11,898 Solar Eclipses in 5,000 Years  

Precisely when and where eclipses occur is a complicated business -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-13 08:35:10

1,000 Years of Congruent Numbers  

These integers have inspired one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-13 08:22:08

Sloths Climb a New Evolutionary Tree  

Analysis of ancient genes changes what researchers expected about giant sloth evolution -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-13 05:25:29

Tropical Storm Barry's Dangers Will Reach Far Inland  

Rains from the system will prolong the already historic flooding along the Mississippi -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-12 17:25:44

Celebrating the Engineers behind the First Moon Landing  

My  father was one of those who worked feverishly behind the scenes 50 years ago to get astronauts safely to the moon and back -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-12 08:07:46

The "Woodstock of Physics" Is Finally Living Up to Its Promise  

A landmark meeting in 1987 promised that high-temperature superconductors would change the world. No one realized how long it would take -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-12 07:52:47

What to Expect from India's Second Moon Mission  

The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, lander and rover will seek out water ice and other potentially valuable resources near the lunar south pole -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-12 07:20:03

Disasters Collide as Tropical Storm Barry Heads Ashore  

Storm surge and torrential rains will bring flooding to Louisiana and potentially tax levees -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-12 05:25:57

Rhinos and Their Gamekeepers Benefit from AI  

Starting in 2017, an artificial intelligence monitoring system at the Welgevonden Game Reserve in South Africa has been helping to protect rhinos and their caretakers.   -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-11 19:53:44

The Simplest and Most Successful Experiment Onboard Apollo 11  

How the Lunar Laser Retroreflector, still operating 50 years later, ended up going to the moon -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-11 18:18:58

A New Twist on Artificial Muscles  

Several designs could find uses in tiny robots and biomedical devices -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-11 12:20:02

The Simplest and Most Successful Experiment aboard   

How the Lunar Laser Retroreflector, still operating 50 years later, ended up going to the moon -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-11 09:59:03

The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence  

As the U.S. and China vie for global influence, AI will be central to the balance of power -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-11 07:19:03

Backpack Harvests Energy As You Walk  

The pack produces a steady trickle of electricity from the swinging motion of your stuff. Christopher Intagliata reports.  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-11 05:16:50

Viking History Is Melting Away in Greenland  

Climate change is already rotting archaeological sites in the Arctic, and Norse Viking-era settlements are at high risk -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-11 03:56:04

How Do You Put a Plane Engine in a Car?  

High-risk design trials could create super-efficient vehicles -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-11 03:32:17

Humans Fold: AI Conquers Poker's Final Milestone  

A new program outperforms professionals in six-player games. Could business, political or military applications come next? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-11 01:54:27

Socrates' Critique of 21st-Century Neuroscience  

The ancient thinker saw limits to what natural science can tell us about ourselves -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-10 11:36:33

Our Disabilities Have Made Us Better Scientists  

But only because we have had access to health care, emotional support and institutional backing -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-10 05:43:28

Science and Sustainability May Clash on the Moon  

Lunar ice could be a crucial resource for future explorers. It could also be an astrobiological treasure trove. Can it be used as both? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-10 03:27:46

Small Temperature Bumps Can Cause Big Arctic Methane Burps  

Warming can encourage the growth of microbes in permafrost that produce more greenhouse gases -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-10 02:41:11

In Environment Speech, Trump Fails to Mention Climate Change  

The address also included inaccurate claims on the state of U.S. air quality -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-09 20:34:05

Can NASA Really Return People to the Moon by 2024?  

Donald Trump wants U.S. astronauts back on the Moon. But his ambitious plan faces formidable political, financial and technical challenges -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-09 13:31:41

How the Trump Administration Is Torpedoing Climate Science  

One way is to attack the inconvenient truths in the authoritative National Climate Assessment -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-09 11:57:23

How to Fight "Eroom's Law"  

Human organs on a chip might be able to cure what ails pharma R&D -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-09 11:39:47

The Psychedelics Evangelist: A German Financier Wants to Turn Magic Mushrooms into Modern Medicine  

One company the entrepreneur invests in wants to develop psilocybin in a lab—so no need to extract it from mushrooms -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-09 11:06:02

Fat Is Not the Problem--Fat Stigma Is  

“Health experts” are sending incorrect and destructive messages about the relationship between weight and wellness -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-09 08:23:52

Why Baseballs Are Flying in 2019  

An analysis of the 2019 edition of the Major League baseball points to reasons why it's leaving ballparks at a record rate. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-09 03:49:40

Federal Appeals Court Takes Up Case That Threatens Affordable Care Act  

Upholding the lower court’s ruling would affect 20 million people who get medical coverage under the law and could upend the health care system -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-09 02:27:50

Quirky Quantum Tunneling Observed  

A new study finds observational evidence of Klein tunneling, a strange phenomenon that enables particles to pass through even the toughest barriers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-09 01:59:53

Trump Administration Officials Scrubbed Climate Change from Press Releases  

The dire predictions of a recent USGS study on sea level rise were removed from the agency’s release -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-08 18:59:24

Could the Recent California Earthquakes Set Off the San Andreas Fault?  

It is theoretically possible, though there is no known connection between the fault systems -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-08 17:38:45

The Last Good Gig:
 A Summer at the South Pole  

Nobody has lukewarm feelings about Antarctica, and some people don’t fit in anywhere else -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-08 13:48:05

Future Gravitational Wave Detectors Could Find Exoplanets, Too  

Although meant to study merging supermassive black holes, the European Space Agency's LISA mission might also discover hundreds of worlds around white dwarf stars -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-08 13:35:01

A Fight for the Purity of the Night Sky  

The recent controversy over a constellation of SpaceX satellites echoes a similar uproar that happened back in the early 1960s -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-08 05:33:46

Fat Is Not the Problem—Fat Stigma Is  

“Health experts” are sending incorrect and destructive messages about the relationship between weight and wellness -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-08 01:57:42

Another Reason to Protect Elephants: Frogs Love Their Feet  

Well, more specifically their footprints. New research finds that elephants create foot-shaped habitats for breeding frogs as they travel through the forest in Myanmar. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-07 18:02:40

Oregon Is About to Get a Lot More Hazardous  

State leadership is failing its citizens—and there will be a body count -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-07 07:13:36

Are Our Minds Just Our Brains?  

A debate on minds, matter and mechanism -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-07 05:48:56

Meta-Post: Posts on Cancer  

Cross-Check columns on cancer and related topics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-07 05:06:20

The Unseen Apollo 11  

Much of the treasure trove of Apollo 11 images is rarely shown -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-06 19:18:45

$2.5 Million Taken From National Parks for Trump's Bombastic 4th of July Display  

This event is costing America a lot more than her dignity. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-06 11:16:44

DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think  

Life’s information-storage system is being adapted to handle massive amounts of information -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-05 12:50:27

How to Fight STEM's Unconscious Bias against LGBTQ People  

To boost inclusivity, we need to do better at tracking data and holding institutions accountable -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-05 12:34:09

Pluto Redux  

The faraway world’s demotion more than a decade ago opened a celestial can of worms -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-05 12:14:35

Utility-Scale Energy Storage Will Enable a Renewable Grid  

A roadblock to sustainable energy solutions is coming unstuck -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-05 04:32:54

Computing Biology's Future  

Life scientists need new training to grapple with their discipline’s explosion of data -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-04 12:26:25

Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way  

Resilient fuels and innovative reactors could enable a resurgence of nuclear power -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-04 11:53:56

Some Hot Dog Histology  

A lab analysis found that even an all-beef frankfurter had very little skeletal muscle, or 'meat.' So what’s in there? Christopher Intagliata reports.  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-04 05:46:16

Advanced Food Tracking and Packaging Will Save Lives and Cut Waste  

A combination of two technologies could vastly improve food safety -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-04 01:20:34

Massive Forest Restoration Could Greatly Slow Global Warming  

The right trees, planted in the right locations, could store 205 gigatons of carbon dioxide -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-04 01:12:57

A Special Class of Proteins Is Promising Targets for Drugs for Cancer and Alzheimer's  

New possibilities for treating cancer and other ills -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-03 13:43:46

The Doctor Who Beat Ebola--and Inspires Other Survivors to Care for the Sick  

Maurice Kakule Mutsunga has started a motorcycle ambulance service and is working to dispel rumors about the virus -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-03 11:51:52

Collaborative Telepresence Could Render Distance (Relatively) Meaningless  

Soon participants in virtual gatherings will feel like they are physically together -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-03 11:26:43

Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence  

If we don’t know how AIs make decisions, how can we trust what they decide? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-03 09:59:01

Risks of Controversial Geoengineering Approach "May Be Overstated"  

Halving the amount of aerosols injected into the atmosphere could reduce global temperatures and temper side effects -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-03 07:40:48

The Science of Fireworks  

We take you inside a single fireworks shell to show you how it all works. If you want to glimpse more than just the inner workings of one fireworks shell, you should check out this post by the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-03 05:57:50

Smarter Fertilizers Can Reduce Environmental Contamination  

New formulations deliver nourishment on demand -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-03 05:29:25

Climate Change Made Europe's Mega-Heatwave Five Times More Likely  

Scientists raced to study whether the scorching temperatures last week were linked to global warming -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-03 04:53:38

Worm Wiring Diagram May Help Us Understand Our Own Nervous System  

Genes for the humble C. elegans turn up in autism, schizophrenia and other human disorders -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-03 04:36:14

It Takes a Village to Declassify an Error Bar  

Identifying an interstellar cousin—required a national-security waiver -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-03 01:41:22

Decoding the Language of Neurons  

A new study reveals surprising variations in the neural code -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 13:29:40

Social Robots Play Nicely with Others  

Droid friends and assistants are penetrating deeper into our lives -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 13:13:06

My Encounter with the Late Mitchell Feigenbaum, Chaos Pioneer and Critic  

Renowned discoverer of order underlying chaos was surprising skeptical of claims that computers were creating a revolutionary new science. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 13:05:36

As the World Heats Up, Soccer Must Adapt  

Players face higher health risks, while the timing and location of may change -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 12:21:09

When Earth and the Moon Were One  

An entirely new class of astronomical object—a synestia—may be the key to solving the lingering mysteries of lunar origin -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 12:16:35

The U.S. Should Go Back to the Moon--But Not on Its Own  

Do not make the U.S.’s lunar return an international clash -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 11:48:37

The Space Station May Soon Smell like Fresh-Baked Cookies  

Astronauts plan to test an oven designed to work in microgravity—and boost morale  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 09:58:57

New Method for Tackling Stroke Restrains an Overactive Immune System  

Shutting down an inflammatory molecule could potentially provide treatment days after onset -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 09:57:45

Why City Rankings Matter  

Benchmarking is not just for headlines; it shapes cities’ global imagination -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 09:20:43

Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2019: Introduction  

World-changing technologies that are poised to rattle the status quo -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 06:19:14

Apollo's Bounty: The Science of the Moon Rocks  

The lunar rocks brought home by Apollo astronauts reshaped our understanding of the moon and the entire solar system. Gathering more of them is one of the most important reasons to go back -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 06:05:15

A Bulwark Against Trump's Stem Cell Ban  

California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a kind of mini-NIH, does crucial basic research without federal funding -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 03:07:03

A Special Class of Proteins Are Promising Targets for Drugs for Cancer and Alzehimer's  

New possibilities for treating cancer and other ills -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-07-02 02:51:55