Scientific American
Fire Stoppers
New tech fights fire with sound
2 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Distant Diplomacy
Unrelated species “talk” and understand one another to avoid threats
2 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Fine-Feathered Snack
A bat's tracker documents a dramatic midair hunt
2 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Lunar Nursery
A swirl of gas and dust may be a moon-formation zone
2 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Tiny Display
An e-paper breakthrough brings extremely high-resolution color
2 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Probiotic Hope and Hype
Despite their popularity, supplements with billions of \"good\" microbes help only a few illnesses, research shows
3 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Inside Asteroid Family Trees
Asteroid origins can be hard to trace
4 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
The Imperiled Orcas of the Salish Sea
The southern resident killer whales are on the brink. Now the scientists who study them are, too
10+ min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Signals from Within
Disruptions in interoception, the ability to detect and interpret the body's internal state, may underlie anxiety, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and many other psychological ailments
10+ min |
January 2026
Scientific American
The Reptile Sexpocalypse
The sex of many turtles, crocodilians, and other reptiles is determined by the temperature at which their eggs incubate. Global warming could doom them
10+ min |
January 2026
Scientific American
A Suite of Killers
Heart ailments, kidney diseases and type 2 diabetes actually may be part of just one condition. It's called CKM syndrome
10 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Cable Quakes
Fiber optics that connect the world can detect its earthquakes, too
2 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Static Launch
Tiny worms leap toward their fruit fly hosts with an electric “tractor beam”
3 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Think Again
Chimpanzees can weigh evidence and update their beliefs like humans do
3 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: Ignorosphere Surfers
SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVISED tiny featherweight disks that could float freely in Earth's mesosphere or the thin air of Mars, theoretically even while carrying payloads.
3 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Huntington's Hopes
After years of heartbreak, a new treatment slows this devastating disease
4 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Behind the Nobel
A 2025 winner reflects on the mysterious T cells that won him the prize
5 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
OUR ROBOTIC PICTURE
Will mechanical helpers ever be commonplace at home, at work and beyond?
10+ min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Flashes in the Night
Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers are just beginning to understand them
10+ min |
January 2026
Scientific American
"Use Your Words" Can Be Good for Kids' Health
Writing or expressing feelings can help adults mentally and physically. Kids are no different
5 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Mondays Really Are More Stressful
The start of the workweek can be a biologically measurable stressor, with consequences for long-term health that can stretch into retirement
4 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
What's on the Horizon for 2026
These are the science topics that we think will be big this year
6 min |
January 2026
Popular Mechanics US
AN ANCIENT WOODEN FACE
Archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) discovered a 1,000-yearold wooden face during an underwater research expedition in Poland's Lake Lednica.
1 min |
January / February 2026
Popular Mechanics US
OPERATION PLUTO
THE ALLIES’ SECRET UNDERWATER WEAPON THAT HELPED DEFEAT THE NAZIS
10+ min |
January / February 2026
Popular Mechanics US
A Lost Explorer Found
IN JUNE OF 1997, A 31-YEAR-OLD PAKISTANI man by the name Naseeruddin disappeared into a cave while traveling in the Supat Valley in the mountainous northern region of Pakistan called Kohistan, never to be seen again.
2 min |
January / February 2026
Popular Mechanics US
THE BEST HEIGHT TO HANG YOUR TV
MOUNTING YOUR TV UP HIGH, LIKE over the fireplace, can be tempting—but it’s impractical at best and a literal pain in the neck at worst.
1 min |
January / February 2026
Popular Mechanics US
The Fringes of Life
AT FIRST GLANCE, CREATING A DEFINItion of \"life\" seems simple.
2 min |
January / February 2026
Popular Mechanics US
WHO SETS THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK?
In the shadow of my family's atomic legacy, I set out to understand the increasingly urgent debate about humanity's capacity to end itself and what it can teach us about living.
10+ min |
January / February 2026
Popular Mechanics US
The Shroud of Turin
THE FAMED SHROUD OF TURIN GAINED its status in the 14th century thanks to its apparent depiction of an adult man with long hair and a beard—very similar to the generally accepted image of Jesus Christ.
1 min |
January / February 2026
Popular Mechanics US
Tomb 38
TUCKED AWAY MORE THAN SIX FEET underground, down a stone staircase in Egypt's Aga Khan Mausoleum in Aswan, archaeologists discovered what they call \"one of the most architecturally impressive and well-preserved tombs unearthed to date.\"
1 min |