Science
Scientific American
Will We Run Out of Rare Earth Elements?
These valuable but difficult-to-extract metals are increasingly important to modern life
1 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Copyright Laws Can Stop Deepfakes
The U.S. should give its residents rights to their own face and voice
4 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
50, 100 & 150 Years
“The list of first-aid procedures that the medical profession encourages laypeople to undertake is short because of concern that tactics applied in ignorance may do more harm than good.
3 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Dramatic Atmosphere
Exoplanet TOI-561 b has air where none should persist
2 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
The Mother of Depressions
Postpartum depression is a leading cause of death among new mothers. A new type of drug offers better, faster treatment
10+ min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Going Rogue
A massive study may improve the prediction of dangerous rogue waves
3 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Phages Caught Sleeping
Bacteria use hibernating viruses to immunize themselves
2 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
THE COVERT HERBARIUM OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY
A century ago a father and a son labored to replicate the intricate structure of nearly eight hundred species of plants in four thousand delicate models.
1 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
Are AI Chatbots Healthy for Teens?
Kids crave approval from their peers. Chatbots offer an alternative to real-life relationships, but they can come at a price
5 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
The Myth of the Designer Baby
Parents beware of any genomics firm saying it can help them with “genetic optimization” of their embryos
5 min |
December 2025
Scientific American
STRANDED ON MARS
NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. Now it might just leave them there
10 min |
December 2025
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
10+ min |
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.
10+ min |
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
Scientific American
METEORITE HEIST
Violence, lies and the smuggling of the ninth-largest meteorite in the world
10+ min |