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Scientific American
Scientists as Strangers
Scientists, in the popular imagination, are oddballs. A chemist or geologist may be a genius, it is generally agreed, but the heightened mental acuity comes at great social and emotional cost, rendering the scientist a misfit, a weirdo, a robot in human clothing. This perception troubles me.
4 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Past Is Our Future
It’s a difficult time to be a young scientist in America. Lessons from history can tell us what the future might hold
10+ min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
Let There Be Weapons
The Department of Energy’s new Genesis Mission promises AI-accelerated discovery. Seven of its first 26 challenges focus on nuclear weapons and national security
4 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
Alex L. Zhang
Making artificial-intelligence recursive language models more efficient
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
State of American Science
A decades-old compact between science and society is broken
10+ min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
How Probability Theory Got Its Start
Disagreement over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk assessment
7 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Kaiyi Jiang
Creating AI platforms to discover new therapeutics
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Adam Bowman
Clocking the electrical messages between neurons using fluorescence
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Chee-Huat Linus Eng
Creating techniques to allow scientists to see biological processes in real time
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
THE SOLILOQUY OF SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT
A MEDITATION ON LIFE AND THE VON NEUMANN–WIGNER INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
Atul Gawande
On reclaiming America’s edge in research and public health
3 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Amber Young
Standardizing and improving models used in astrobiology
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
Feline Assistance
Cats, unlike dogs and toddlers, help you only when it helps them
2 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
Bright Spots
Science is flourishing in some labs and fields more than others
10+ min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Alice Stanton
Building models of the human brain to better understand disease
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Kauê M. Costa
Applying new tools to behavioral tests to discern how we learn
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
Sheepdog Strategy
Herding a small group of “noisy” sheep holds hints for computer algorithms
2 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
Mark Kelly
On steering the path forward for research and innovation
3 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Lab of the Future Runs Itself
PAST MIDNIGHT IN THE HEARST MEMORIAL MINING BUILDING on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, beyond a vaulted entrance and down a marble staircase, the experiments in the A-Lab are running without people.
10 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Dane deQuilettes
Seeking better materials to improve solar energy
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
Robots Can Now Fold Your Laundry
Home-helper tasks are becoming easier for robotic assistants
4 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Christina V. Theodoris
Creating artificial-intelligence models to find treatments for cardiac diseases
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
Elizabeth Blackburn
On fighting for truth, inclusion and the next generation of scientists
3 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Dmitrii Kochkov
Making artificial-intelligence tools to predict what climate change will mean for extreme weather
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Tonima Tasmin Ananna
Understanding the behavior of supermassive black holes
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Armita Manafzadeh
Investigating the shape and evolution of animal joints
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
Fractured Society
Two hundred chimps are embroiled in a rare \"civil war\"
3 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Allie Balter-Kennedy
Probing ice cores to foresee the effects of climate change
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
Martian Shadow
A fast-moving wave of darkness is spreading across the Red Planet
1 min |
July/August 2026
Scientific American
The Youth American Scientists - Steven Chavez
Making catalysts used in industrial processes hardier and more effective
1 min |