Science
Scientific American
YOUR PERSONALIZED CANCER VACCINE
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient's unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
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December 2025
Scientific American
Gas Busters
An experimental protein grabs carbon monoxide before it latches on to blood cells
2 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Ghostly Fire
\"Microlightning\" may power strange will-o'-the-wisps
2 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Eureka Cam
Movements reveal moment of mathematical discovery
2 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
THE PIVOT TO PLASTIC
To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other products
10+ min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Mourning Becomes Electric
What can AI ghosts do for the grieving?
10+ min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Funding Fallout
IN JUNE, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., fired all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a panel that creates recommendations for safe and effective vaccination standards. His chosen replacements include ideological allies who have been outspoken skeptics of vaccine safety.
2 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Shape Shift
This surprising new polyhedron disproves a long-standing conjecture
2 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Small Acts of Joy Bring Big Gains
A community science project finds that modest reminders to find joy in the day can have benefits on a par with those of more ambitious well-being interventions
5 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
How Big Can Black Holes Get?
There may be an upper limit to their growth
5 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Leg and Pedal
Rain or shine, some places are perfect for bikes and walking
2 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
A Little Heartbeat Irregularity Can Be Good
Milliseconds of variability, now detected by fitness watches, can improve well-being
4 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
A New View of CO2
The most important and most misunderstood molecule on Earth
10+ min |
December 2025
Scientific American
AFTER MY VISIT TO Memorial Sloan Kettering,
Balachandran's team shared a chart that plotted Brigham's immune response to her personalized mRNA vaccine.
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December 2025
Scientific American
Honesty Won This Economist a Nobel Prize
Here's the surprising math at the heart of auction theory
5 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Fascinating Plumes
Saturn's moon Enceladus has complex, life-friendly chemistry
4 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Vulture Culture
Human artifacts turn up in ancient scavengers' nests
2 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Discerning Dogs
Some dogs can sort toys by function like human children do
2 min |
December 2025
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METEORITE HEIST
Violence, lies and the smuggling of the ninth-largest meteorite in the world
10+ min |
November 2025
Scientific American
Workouts Help to Treat Cancer
Exercise improves survival, limits recurrence, and can be used with surgery and drugs
3 min |
November 2025
Scientific American
LIFE'S BIG BANGS
Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once
10+ min |
November 2025
Scientific American
Canyon Wonderland
An underwater robot documents the strange denizens of Mar del Plata Canyon
2 min |
November 2025
Scientific American
The Math Trick Hiding in Credit Card Numbers
This simple algorithm from the 1960s catches your typos
4 min |
November 2025
Scientific American
50, 100 & 150 Years
\"A comprehensive study by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory vigorously urges that a $1-billion program be launched to develop a new automobile engine for introduction by 1985 or sooner.
3 min |
November 2025
Scientific American
Grippy Super Team
Ants form complex chains to carry more than 100 times each ant's weight
2 min |
November 2025
Scientific American
Human on a Bicycle
Revisiting a classic graphic on the efficiency of motion
1 min |
November 2025
Scientific American
Risky Genes
As genetic risk scores get integrated into clinical care, experts expect patients to gain earlier access to therapies and enjoy better outcomes
9 min |
November 2025
Scientific American
Gut Virome
Your digestive tract is crawling with viruses— and that's a good thing
2 min |
November 2025
Scientific American
The Long Journey to an Artificial Pancreas
This biotech could transform type 1 diabetes care
9 min |
November 2025
Scientific American
Your Al Therapist
The dangers of using artificial-intelligence chatbots for therapy
6 min |