Technology

Leap Seconds May Be Abandoned by the World’s Timekeepers

We have been adding “leap seconds” to time kept by our atomic clocks, but soon w...

SpaceX Catches a Falling Starship—a First in Spacefligh...

SpaceX’s fifth Starship flight test concluded with mechanical arms snatching the...

Climate-Fueled Disasters Are Raising Insurance Rates

Increasingly intense hurricanes, wildfires and other climate disasters have forc...

Smart Tech Would Make Your Office Building Greener

Implementing smart technologies like demand-controlled ventilation could reduce ...

November 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Yea...

Computer chess champ; dental chloroform killer

Math Puzzle: Play Architect with These Houses of Cards

Can this house of cards be built?

Book Review: Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Nov...

In The Dispossessed, a physicist is caught between societies

Lucy Turns 50, and Dark Energy Gets More Mysterious

What works to improve health equity? And it might be time to end the leap second

Contributors to Scientific American’s November 2024 Issue

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

What is Implicit Bias, and how Might it Affect Your Nex...

We talk to Cristina Gonzalez, a doctor at New York University, who runs a lab th...

Science Crossword: Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes

Play this crossword inspired by the November 2024 issue of Scientific American

Poem: ‘Alfred Wegener to the World’

Science in meter and verse

New Nasal Vaccines Offer Stronger Protection from COVID...

Gentle nasal spray vaccines against COVID, the flu and RSV are coming. They may ...

Book Review: The Big Costs of Mining the Planet for Ele...

Vince Beiser’s tour of the “Electro-Digital Age” puts resource extraction at the...

Kids with ADHD May Still Have Symptoms as Adults

Fortunately, recognition and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disord...

How Marie Curie Helped a Generation of Women Break into...

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping...

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