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The Hype behind Expensive Probiotic Supplements

The Hype behind Expensive Probiotic Supplements

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 10

Popular supplements with billions of “good” microbes really help only a few illn...

Readers Respond to the September 2025 Issue

Readers Respond to the September 2025 Issue

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 10

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

These Orcas Are on the Brink—And So Is the Science That Could Save Them

These Orcas Are on the Brink—And So Is the Science That...

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 13

Inside the desperate rush to save the southern resident killer whales

Poem: ‘Large Hadron Collider,’ ‘Maxwell’s Demon’ and ‘Music for the Heat Death of the Universe’

Poem: ‘Large Hadron Collider,’ ‘Maxwell’s Demon’ and ‘M...

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 16

Science in meter and verse

Heart and Kidney Diseases, plus Type 2 Diabetes, May Be One Illness Treatable with Ozempic-like Drugs

Heart and Kidney Diseases, plus Type 2 Diabetes, May Be...

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 14

These three disorders could really be “CKM syndrome,” which can be treated with ...

Science Crossword: Pointing South

Science Crossword: Pointing South

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 13

Play this crossword inspired by the January 2026 issue of Scientific American

Meet Your Future Robot Servants, Caregivers and Explorers

Meet Your Future Robot Servants, Caregivers and Explorers

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 19

Robots are poised to play a much bigger role in daily life at home, at work and ...

How to See Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as It Swings by Earth One Last Time

How to See Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as It Swings by ...

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 16

This week marks the last chance for backyard astronomers to see interstellar Com...

January 2026: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

January 2026: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Year...

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 13

Killer bees; Mars volcanoes

Science Carries On. Here Are Our Top Topics for 2026

Science Carries On. Here Are Our Top Topics for 2026

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 13

Whether space, health, technology or environment, here are the issues in science...

RNA May Be Common throughout the Cosmos, New Study Suggests

RNA May Be Common throughout the Cosmos, New Study Sugg...

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 22

New experiments show how RNA might form not just on Earth but on other rocky pla...

Getting a COVID Vaccine while Pregnant Slashes Risk of Premature Birth, Major New Study Finds

Getting a COVID Vaccine while Pregnant Slashes Risk of ...

SIN Dec 15, 2025 0 20

Pregnant people who receive a COVID vaccine are 60 percent less likely to experi...

How Rising Rates of Uninsured Children Will Increase Pediatric Cancer Deaths

How Rising Rates of Uninsured Children Will Increase Pe...

SIN Dec 15, 2025 0 26

A recent analysis showed the rate of uninsured children in the U.S. grew from 20...

Videos Show Hummingbirds Jousting Like Medieval Knights in Rare Mating

Videos Show Hummingbirds Jousting Like Medieval Knights...

SIN Dec 15, 2025 0 22

The sharp, elongated bills of green hermit hummingbirds aren’t just fine-tuned f...

2025 Nears Climate Heat Record, Mpox Variant Discovered, and Hobbit Extinction Explained

2025 Nears Climate Heat Record, Mpox Variant Discovered...

SIN Dec 15, 2025 0 16

This week’s science roundup covers 2025’s near-record heat, a new mpox strain an...

Trump Officials Keep Comparing the U.S.’s Vaccine Schedule to Denmark’s. They’re Missing the Point

Trump Officials Keep Comparing the U.S.’s Vaccine Sched...

SIN Dec 14, 2025 0 21

The U.S.’s and Denmark’s health systems are starkly different, so it makes sense...

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