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AC Costs Will Finally Be Covered for Public Housing Resident

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

SIN Jun 26, 2024 0 21

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

Supreme Court’s ‘Chevron Deference’ Decision Could Make Science-Based Regulation Harder

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

SIN Jun 26, 2024 0 32

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

Readers Respond to the March 2024 Issue

Readers Respond to the March 2024 Issue

SIN Jun 26, 2024 0 30

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

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

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

SIN Jun 26, 2024 0 22

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

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

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

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 24

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

Dazzling New Milky Way Map Shows How Magnetism Shapes Our Galaxy

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

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 22

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

To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything

To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 18

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

Satellite Mega Constellations Could Jeopardize Ozone-Hole Recovery

Satellite Mega Constellations Could Jeopardize Ozone-Ho...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 21

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

What Vitamins and Minerals Really Do in Your Body

What Vitamins and Minerals Really Do in Your Body

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 21

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

July/August 2024: Three New Books, Reviewed

July/August 2024: Three New Books, Reviewed

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 15

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

Teens’ Mental Health May Improve When They Help Others

Teens’ Mental Health May Improve When They Help Others

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 37

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

Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self

Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic ...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 17

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

Highly Invasive Spotted Lanternflies May Have a Surprising Weakness: Vibrations

Highly Invasive Spotted Lanternflies May Have a Surpris...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 22

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

Mangrove Trees Are on the Move, Taking the Tropics with Them

Mangrove Trees Are on the Move, Taking the Tropics with...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 25

As the climate warms, mangroves are migrating farther poleward, transforming the...

Book Review: Why People Collect Trees and You Should, Too

Book Review: Why People Collect Trees and You Should, Too

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 21

A new book about tree collectors shows how arboreal curation is an outlet for ar...

Contributors to Scientific American’s July/August 2024 Issue

Contributors to Scientific American’s July/August 2024 ...

SIN Jun 25, 2024 0 20

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

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