To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles to show off some of our most ...
Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...
Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...
Chris Bullard, a retired judge living in Philadelphia, is author of the poetry chapbooks Continued (Grey Book Press, 2020), ...
For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...
The decorated Olympic skier has had numerous injuries and a partial knee replacement but still plans to go for the gold at ...
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Preliminary studies suggest that a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet could reduce schizophrenia symptoms in some people, but ...
After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...
The upcoming drugs CagriSema and retatrutide target multiple gut hormones and could cause twice as much weight loss than ...
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Many different bird species have been affiliated with the Seattle Seahawks’ mascot, but none is technically a “seahawk” ...