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Republican congressional candidate Tom Stalcup on how both parties abuse science for political gain

Republican congressional candidate Tom Stalcup on how b...

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Scientific American spoke to the candidate for Massachusetts’s fourth congressio...

A Wall Is Also a Road explores alien consciousness, slime mold life-forms and Pompeii

A Wall Is Also a Road explores alien consciousness, sli...

SIN Oct 21, 2026 0 5

Slime mold aliens explore Pompeii—and humanity—in a new book by Annalee Newitz

Christina Applegate says she was misdiagnosed with MS—how could that happen?

Christina Applegate says she was misdiagnosed with MS—h...

SIN Oct 21, 2026 0 6

The Emmy Award–winning actress revealed that a multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2...

The mathematical impossibility of making a perfect world map

The mathematical impossibility of making a perfect worl...

SIN Oct 21, 2026 0 8

Mapping a sphere onto a flat plane is mathematically impossible. But a better wo...

Green stars do exist—and others shine pink or purple, too

Green stars do exist—and others shine pink or purple, too

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 7

The colors of dead stars come in a surprising rainbow of choices

Readers respond to the June 2026 issue

Readers respond to the June 2026 issue

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 10

Letters to the editors for the June 2026 issue of Scientific American

Scientists left in the dark by National Science Foundat...

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 8

The Major Research Instrumentation program offers grants of up to $4 million to ...

How a fusion start-up could help maintain the U.S. nuclear arsenal

How a fusion start-up could help maintain the U.S. nucl...

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 8

The U.S. hasn’t detonated a nuclear weapon since 1992. Now a fusion start-up who...

These extreme cosmic explosions are breaking physics

These extreme cosmic explosions are breaking physics

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 8

Astronomers are finally figuring out what powers mysterious gamma-ray bursts

The Selfish Gene at 50

The Selfish Gene at 50

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 8

A half century ago The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins became an instant bestsel...

A quantum computing feat brings the ‘megaquops’ era a step closer

A quantum computing feat brings the ‘megaquops’ era a s...

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 8

Error correction creates qubits that glitch only 5 out of a million times, the f...

Why data centers are reviving solid-state transformers

Why data centers are reviving solid-state transformers

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 8

Solid-state transformer designs have been around for decades. Now data centers m...

November 2026: Science history from 50, 100 and 150 years ago

November 2026: Science history from 50, 100 and 150 yea...

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 10

In 1926 we wrote about how there was a good chance Mars had both plants and anim...

How your brain learns to cope with uncertainty

How your brain learns to cope with uncertainty

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 10

Can our “prediction machine” brains learn to handle a world in chaos?

A graphic explainer of uranium enrichment

A graphic explainer of uranium enrichment

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 5

Inside the process of isolating uranium-235

Poem: ‘Life in Bilateral Wonder’

Poem: ‘Life in Bilateral Wonder’

SIN Oct 20, 2026 0 12

Science in meter and verse

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