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Getting Enough Sleep is Critical for Weight Loss and Maintenance

Getting Enough Sleep is Critical for Weight Loss and Ma...

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A sleep-medicine specialist explains how restless nights lead to consuming more ...

New Class of Drugs Blocks Wakefulness Chemical and Offers Relief from Insomnia

New Class of Drugs Blocks Wakefulness Chemical and Offe...

SIN May 21, 2025 0 2

Drugs that target wakefulness, molecules in cannabis and wearable devices that m...

What If Mitochondria Aren’t Only the Powerhouse of the Cell?

What If Mitochondria Aren’t Only the Powerhouse of the ...

SIN May 21, 2025 0 0

New discoveries about mitochondria could reshape how we understand the body’s re...

Apple Settles Claim for Siri Eavesdropping

Apple Settles Claim for Siri Eavesdropping

SIN May 21, 2025 0 2

Apple is paying $95 million over claims that Siri secretly recorded private chat...

Can We Refreeze the Arctic’s Ice? Scientists Test New Geoengineering Solutions

Can We Refreeze the Arctic’s Ice? Scientists Test New G...

SIN May 21, 2025 0 2

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can refl...

Math Puzzle: Measure the Star

Math Puzzle: Measure the Star

SIN May 21, 2025 0 2

Build a special set of dice in this math puzzle

Why a Hurricane’s Storm Surge Can Be So Dangerous

Why a Hurricane’s Storm Surge Can Be So Dangerous

SIN May 21, 2025 0 1

How hurricanes push water onto shore in deadly storm surges, and why storm surge...

Larger, More Dangerous Hail Is Becoming More Common—Here’s Why

Larger, More Dangerous Hail Is Becoming More Common—Her...

SIN May 21, 2025 0 1

The largest hail tends to form in “supercell” thunderstorms and seems to be beco...

Why the 2025 Tornado Season Has Been So Destructive

Why the 2025 Tornado Season Has Been So Destructive

SIN May 21, 2025 0 1

Several devastating tornado outbreaks have cut swaths of destruction across the ...

NOAA Has ‘Ground to a Halt’ as Lutnick Has Left Contracts Unsigned

NOAA Has ‘Ground to a Halt’ as Lutnick Has Left Contrac...

SIN May 21, 2025 0 1

A NOAA official says that “everything has ground to a halt” at the agency as sta...

Readers Respond to the February 2025 Issue

Readers Respond to the February 2025 Issue

SIN May 20, 2025 0 1

Letters to the editors for the February 2025 issue of Scientific American

Surprising Genetic Evidence Shows Human Evolution in Recent Millennia

Surprising Genetic Evidence Shows Human Evolution in Re...

SIN May 20, 2025 0 1

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdo...

Science Crossword: Light Touch

Science Crossword: Light Touch

SIN May 20, 2025 0 2

Play this crossword inspired by the June 2025 issue of Scientific American

Poem: ‘An Electrolysis of Brine’

Poem: ‘An Electrolysis of Brine’

SIN May 20, 2025 0 2

Science in meter and verse

Why Mitochondria Are More like a Motherboard Than the Powerhouse of the Cell

Why Mitochondria Are More like a Motherboard Than the P...

SIN May 20, 2025 0 0

When these energy-giving organelles thrive, so do we

Contributors to Scientific American’s June 2025 Issue

Contributors to Scientific American’s June 2025 Issue

SIN May 20, 2025 0 0

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the sto...

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