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Voting Is Just the Beginning

Your vote matters. But so does your involvement in civic actions

Review: How Henrietta Leavitt and the ‘Harvard Computer...

A new biography of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt celebrates meaning making in sci...

September 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Ye...

Mysterious Mercury; spiders predict the weather

How Did Dinosaurs See, Smell, Hear and Move?

New fossils and analytical tools provide unprecedented insights into dinosaur se...

Review: In Toward Eternity, People Merge with AI but Cl...

A sweeping novel about a war-torn future explores personhood and identity

Do Space and Time Follow Quantum Rules? These Mind-Bend...

Proposed experiments will search for signs that spacetime is quantum and can exi...

Many Older People Maintain and Even Gain Cognitive Skills

Contrary to stereotypes of the doddering elderly, research shows that half of pe...

Readers Respond to the April 2024 Issue

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

Review: ‘Third-Ear Listening’ Is the Secret to Perceivi...

A new book about the art and science of listening explores our sonic universe

Find the Next Digits in the Sequence in This Math Puzzle

Can you find the pattern behind this progression of digits?

Watch the Blue Supermoon Rise Tonight

August’s supermoon will be the first of four supermoons in a row

Trump's Weird Debate Strategies Come From Creationist T...

A dishonest creationist debating tactic shouldn’t go unchallenged in American li...

How the Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance Health Policy Recor...

As Democrats convene in Chicago to make official their presidential and vice pre...

The ‘Confetti Illusion’ Makes Fruit Appear Riper Than I...

Fruit seems riper when it is wrapped in a net that matches its optimal color, su...

New Satellite Will Track Methane Super Emitters

Tanager-1 is the first in a series of satellites that aim to pinpoint major emit...

People Are Overdosing on Semaglutide Drugs like Ozempic...

Dosing errors in the medication semaglutide, prescribed as Wegovy and Ozempic, c...

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