Scientific American
A Planet Revealed
The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story of Jupiter, the solar system's undisputed heavyweight
10+ min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Nerves Do Regenerate
Neurons, once thought to be irreparable, can grow anew—even in the brain
5 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Bitter Truths
This mushroom's incredibly bitter taste is new to science
2 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Invest in Public Education
Cuts to funding and curricula endanger the U.S.’s status as a global powerhouse
4 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
The Black Hole Next Door
Superfast stars could trace back to a behemoth in a neighboring galaxy
4 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Bitter Truths
This mushroom's incredibly bitter taste is new to science
2 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Research in Reverse
When scientists make sharp 180-degree turns in their thinking, it is often for one of two particular reasons
10+ min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Serenading Cells
Cells can “hear” and respond to sounds
2 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
PEANUT PROOF
Remarkable new treatments can free millions of kids and adults from the deadly threat of peanut allergy, tackling one of our fastest-growing medical problems
10+ min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Alchemist Fish
Genetically modified fish (and fruit flies) could pull dangerous mercury from the environment
2 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Cracking a 125-Year-Old Math Problem
A breakthrough in Hilbert's sixth problem is a major step in grounding physics in math
4 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
The Many Moons of Saturn
Edward Ashton helped to discover two thirds of the planet's known moons
5 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Plastic Was Supposed to Be Sustainable
Synthetic polymers became one of our biggest environmental crises instead
4 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
RNA, Not DNA, Is the Key to Life
DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives
4 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Coping with a LifeAltering Diagnosis
When a child has a major health issue, learning how to manage new routines and expectations can be the key to everyone’s happiness
5 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Gut Check
Microbes in the human intestines may absorb dangerous PFAS
3 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Venom Marinade
Certain spiders evolved a bizarre alternative to biting
2 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Hype about Gluten-Free Diets
Other wheat components are more likely to trigger health problems
3 min |
September 2025
The New Yorker
THE ROOF IS ON FIRE
Was it racial capitalism that burned the Bronx?
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
RANSOM NOTES
“Highest 2 Lowest.”
6 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
GHOULS DEPT.- FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN
The Swedish hard-rock band GHOST appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” last month. When the group formed, in Linköping, in 2006, its members were anonymous, and their devotion to Satan was deep and jubilant. On a track from GHOST’s first album, the vocalist Tobias Forge offered up a demonic mandate:
3 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
THE ACHIEVER
The otherworldly ambitions of R. F. Kuang.
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
MISSED CONNECTIONS
Inside the world of DNA surprises.
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
MONEY BALL
Will Bill Belichick—ex-N.F.L. royalty—transform the college-sports mecca of Chapel Hill?
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
SOME FUNNY THINGS ABOUT GETTING OLD
Children run alongside and taunt you, because you're old, but you don't care, because your hearing is shot!
1 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
POWER PLAY
In Pam Bondi, Donald Trump has the Attorney General he always dreamed of.
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
LOCAL CRITTERS DUMPSTRUCK
One humid afternoon in July, José Ramírez-Garofalo drove his large Toyota truck through the lush new hills, valleys, and meadows of Freshkills Park, a twenty-two-hundred-acre green space that the city is constructing on Staten Island.
3 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
COMMENT - BOOTS ON THE GROUND
Tourists who came to Washington, D.C., last week—tromping from one Smithsonian collection to another, eating ice cream on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—witnessed a bit of history that they surely had not anticipated: the beginning of President Trump's takeover of the District.
4 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
ME, MYSELF, AND I
Helen Oyeyemi's novel of cognitive dissonance.
7 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
SOMETHING HAS COME TO LIGHT
I trust I'll be in Heaven when you read this, although God, in His wisdom, may have other things in store for me.
10+ min |