Technology

How Your Brain Tells Speech and Music Apart

Simple cues help people to distinguish song from the spoken word

New Treatments Address Addiction alongside Trauma

A new generation of treatments addresses the trauma that often underlies addiction

Quantum ‘Ghost Imaging’ Reveals the Dark Side of Plants

Entanglement lets researchers watch plants in action without disruptive visible ...

Why Are There Fewer Spotted Lanternflies in New York City?

Invasive spotted lanternflies are spreading across the metro areas of New York C...

People Living with Sickle Cell Disease Share Their Expe...

Life expectancy for people with sickle cell in the U.S. has increased to about 5...

A Global Initiative to Advance Sickle Cell Research Cou...

Increased funding and new public health policies for sickle cell research are ne...

The Arctic Seed Vault Shows the Flawed Logic of Climate...

The difficulties of the Svalbard seed repository illustrate why we need to preve...

Hidden Patterns Show Nobel Prize Science Trends

Time lags between discoveries and awards show how the Nobel Prizes reward science

October 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Year...

Best baseball batting order; mummies demystified

Why Early Prostate Cancer Screening Matters for Black Men

According to the American Cancer Society, Black men are about 70 percent more li...

Book Review: A Return to the Creepy Tensions of ‘Area X’

In Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer explores the mysteries in his Southern Reach Trilogy

Hybrid Chickadees Reveal How Species Boundaries Can Shi...

When different chickadee species meet, they sometimes choose each other as mates...

Going Back to the Moon, Researching Chickadee Hybrids a...

This month’s issue covers the reasons it’s so hard to go back to the moon, the s...

Math Puzzle: Find the Imposter Number

Can you find the number that doesn't belong?

Record-Breaking Rainfall in Carolinas and Europe Explained

On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Central Europe and North Carolina have ...

Book Review: Powerful Myths Shape a Postapocalyptic World

In a postapocalyptic world on the verge of its next crisis, history gets rewritten

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