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How to Stay Cool in the Summer Heat

Heat waves are getting hotter, more frequent and longer. But there are ways to k...

Readers Respond to the March 2024 Issue

Letters to the editors for the March 2024 issue of Scientific American

Supreme Court’s ‘Chevron Deference’ Decision Could Make...

The Supreme Court is considering the fate of Chevron deference, a 40-year legal ...

AC Costs Will Finally Be Covered for Public Housing Res...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development long refused to pay cooling cost...

China Returns First-Ever Samples from the Moon’s Far Side

China’s Chang’e 6 mission has successfully returned samples from the moon’s far ...

To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything

Nutrition influencers claim we should eat meat-heavy diets like our ancestors di...

July/August 2024: Three New Books, Reviewed

A riveting quest to map the world; quantum physics in a four-act drama; climate ...

Dazzling New Milky Way Map Shows How Magnetism Shapes O...

An image of interstellar dust moving through the Milky Way’s magnetic field may ...

What Vitamins and Minerals Really Do in Your Body

Humans need around 30 vitamins and minerals to keep our bodies functioning

Antarctic Ice Hides 40-Million-Year-Old River System

Beneath the Antarctic ice, scientists find remnants of a giant river system that...

Satellite Mega Constellations Could Jeopardize Ozone-Ho...

Pollution from skyrocketing numbers of satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphe...

Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic ...

An emerging science of advanced meditation could transform mental health and our...

Highly Invasive Spotted Lanternflies May Have a Surpris...

Spotted lanternflies are sometimes drawn to power line vibrations—and scientists...

Teens’ Mental Health May Improve When They Help Others

Volunteering in community programs can reduce youth depression and anxiety, rese...

How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dam...

Better predictions of how cracks grow can make machines and structures more reli...

New Understandings of Food, Fat, Fitness and Evolution

Quantum observers, migrating mangroves, the deep history of an asteroid and unde...

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