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To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything

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

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

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

July/August 2024: Three New Books, Reviewed

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

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

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

What Vitamins and Minerals Really Do in Your Body

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

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...

Teens’ Mental Health May Improve When They Help Others

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

Highly Invasive Spotted Lanternflies May Have a Surpris...

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

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

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

People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Underst...

“Heavy and healthy” can be a rare or common condition. But either way it may sig...

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

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

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

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

New Understandings of Food, Fat, Fitness and Evolution

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

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

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

Poem: ‘An Ars Poetica’

Science in meter and verse

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