A few years ago, a patient of mine—let's call her Pandora—purchased four DNA testing kits as holiday gifts for herself and her siblings. She had seen the TV ads promising that a few ounces of spit would uncover otherwise unattainable...
Jeffrey Mosser: Dear artists, welcome to another episode of the From the Ground Up podcast, produced for HowlRound Theatre Commons, a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide. I'm your host, Jeffrey Mosser, and this, our last episode of season...
December 18, 20242 min readU.S. Has a First Case of Severe Bird Flu, CDC Confirms in H5N1 UpdateLouisiana reported a person hospitalized with a severe case of H5N1, and the USDA has begun bulk milk testingBy Tanya Lewis edited by...
The end of 2024 is approaching, marking another full loop around the sun for our planet. So Scientific American is here to celebrate with nine of our favorite space-related images from the year. In case you’ve lost track, 2024 was...
If you want to make a huge splash when dive-bombing, you need to get your technique just rightStudio Nut/Shutterstock To make the biggest splash when you dive-bomb into water, the secret seems to be to use the Manu technique practised...
The Penguin and the compact elliptical galaxy the EggNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now been focusing its powerful eye on space for more than two years, and it marked this anniversary with a picture of...
Every story is a science story, even the ones that sound more like science fiction. This year Scientific American introduced readers to real discoveries that sounded a bit like science-fiction, such as the crime rings trafficking sand around the world...
December 18, 20243 min readWill the World's First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Be Built in Virginia? Here's Why We're SkepticalThe fusion power plant would go live in the next decade and produce 400 megawatts of electricity, says Commonwealth Fusion SystemsBy...
This past summer, I and many others around the world watched in horror as wildfires reduced nearly a third of the town of Jasper, Alberta, to ashes and incinerated some 150 square miles of the surrounding Jasper National Park. Although...
Humans have been speaking some form of language for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years. Yet linguists, psychologists and historians are constantly making new discoveries about the ways we communicate with one another. Linguists are tracking the new...
