Technology

New Insights on Dinosaurs, Pain and Carbon Capture

How we’ll learn more about dark matter, quantum gravity and substitutes for lab ...

Europe's JUICE Jupiter Probe Zooms past the Moon in His...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft took a shortcut to the giant planet by...

Without AC, Texan Prisons Sentence People to Unsafe Heat

Air-conditioning is uncommon for incarcerated people, and the heat index inside ...

Next-Generation Biotech Is Rendering Some Lab Animals O...

Replacing research animals with tools that better mimic human biology could impr...

Poem: ‘Rocket Launch Laconic’

Science in meter and verse

How Does a Bioluminescent Petunia Glow?

A bioluminescent petunia led me to a world of radiant mushrooms, 19th century ex...

John McFall Is Breaking Barriers as the World’s First P...

Paralympian and surgeon John McFall is redefining the astronaut image and provin...

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

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