The Problem Isn't Sharing Misinformation Online; It's Believing It  

To counter spurious ideas such as those of the antivaccine movement, consider what drives people to accept them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-18 12:32:04

Big Data Has Transformed Agriculture...In Some Places, Anyway  

Poorer parts of the world lag far behind in getting the tools they need to thrive -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-18 10:52:15

It's A Match: Satellite and Ground Measurements Agree on Warming  

The consenus gives confidence to satellite estimates of temperature rise in remote areas with few weather stations -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-18 10:36:54

Liver Illness Strikes Latino Children Like a "Silent Tsunami"  

Fatty liver disease, linked to gene interactions with a high-sugar diet, can cause cancer and organ failure -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-18 10:26:57

How We Roll: Study Shows We're More Lone Wolves than Team Players  

Results may explain why collective action on climate change and health policy is so difficult -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-18 10:06:12

Why Are Girls Getting Their Periods So Young?  

Female puberty is starting earlier and earlier, with worrying consequences for women’s health -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-18 09:35:56

How Old Are Saturn's Rings? The Debate Rages On  

Pinning down the ring system’s age has profound implications for the entire Saturnian system -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-18 09:35:55

A Genetic Risk Score Tries to Predict Whether A Child Will Become Obese  

A still-controversial test could be administered to toddlers to gauge their chances -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-18 06:55:18

What Chickens Can Teach Hearing Researchers  

At an event honoring Nobel and Kavli Prize winners, neuroscientists James Hudspeth and Robert Fettiplace talked about the physiology of hearing and the possibility of restoring hearing loss.   -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-18 02:14:05

The Best of the Quantum Shorts Film Festival  

And the winner….a tale about a parallel universe–hopping psychopath -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-17 21:03:16

Heat Pumps Gain Traction as Renewable Energy Grows  

A switch from natural gas-powered home heating and cooling could be cheaper and reduce carbon emissions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-17 13:19:44

'Oumuamua-like Objects Might Supercharge Planet Formation  

Showers of interstellar debris could speed up the assembly of worlds around young stars -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-17 11:30:59

Part-revived Pig Brains Raise Slew of Ethical Quandaries  

Researchers need guidance on animal use and the many issues opened up by a new study on whole-brain restoration, argue Nita A. Farahany, Henry T. Greely and Charles M. Giattino -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-17 11:05:56

To Find Earth-Threatening Comets and Asteroids, Think Small  

A constellation of tiny satellites carrying detectors that use synthetic tracking could improve our searches -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-17 10:18:26

Pig Experiment Challenges Assumptions around Brain Damage in People  

The restoration of some structures and cellular functions in pig brains hours after death could intensify debates about when human organs should be removed for transplantation, warn Stuart Youngner... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-17 05:11:21

Watch Now: Einstein's Scientific Revolution and the Limits of Quantum Theory  

Cosmologist Lee Smolin says that at certain key points, the scientific worldview is based on fallacious reasoning -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-17 04:43:08

Where AI in Medicine Falls Short  

It can help with diagnosis but not yet with helping physicians and patients decide what to do with the information -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-17 04:25:13

Stanford Clears Three Faculty Members of "CRISPR Babies" Involvement  

A review concluded that the scientists did not take part in a Chinese researcher’s experiment to edit the genomes of twin human embryos -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-17 03:47:20

How France Can Rebuild Notre Dame  

An expert offers a scientific perspective on what has been lost and what can be restored -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-17 02:03:48

Inconceivable: The Science of Women's Reproductive Health  

What we don’t know, why we don’t know it, and where we go from here -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 21:07:40

What Is the Point of a Period?  

Age-old taboos against menstruation have led to a lack of research on how women's cycles work, with serious consequences for their health -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 13:49:09

How Long Do Neutrons Live? Physicists Close in on Decades-old Puzzle  

Researchers are narrowing down their measurements of how long the subatomic particle survives on its own -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 13:35:11

Cuttlefish Are Dazzling, But Do They Dream?  

The marine mollusks display behavior that resembles sleep, including cycles of rapid eye movement  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 10:08:29

Heaviest U.S. Rains Will Happen More Often Even if Warming Targets Are Met  

Extreme rainfall projections inform plans to increase infrastructure resilience -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 10:03:55

Do Microdoses of LSD Change Your Mind?  

A rigorous study has intriguing results -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 09:22:50

The Decades-Long War on Smog  

What history tells us about addressing today’s pressing air pollution problems -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 07:50:38

Fertile Ground: The Long-Neglected Science of Female Reproductive Health  

When the discussion of reproductive health is dominated by the political will to control it, gaps in medical research get overshadowed -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 04:45:06

Nobelist Says System of Science Offers Life Lessons  

At an event honoring Nobel and Kavli Prize winners, economist Paul Romer talked about how the social system of science offers hope for humanity and for how we can live with each other. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 04:22:14

Unhealthful Data Gaps: Female Reproductive Health  

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what do you think? 2019-04-16 03:35:23

Don't Ignore Your Core  

Get-Fit Guy explains why core strength is crucial and provides a core workout that will keep you fit, healthy, and mobile -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 03:25:46

Today's Biggest Threat: The Polarized Mind  

To counter it, we call for a mobilization of mindfulness practices and dialogue groups on the scale of a public works program for human civility -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 02:35:30

To Prevent Women from Dying in Childbirth, First Stop Blaming Them  

Two-thirds of all U.S. maternal deaths are considered preventable. Racism—not race—is a critical factor -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-16 02:05:03

Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind  

Atmospheric currents are transporting plastic pollution into remote, pristine areas, showing the global nature of the problem -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-15 15:20:36

Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard Kept Churning Out Ideas for New Drugs after Turning 90  

Do what you love: The nonagenarian showed no signs of slowing down from a nearly seven-day-a-week work schedule -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-15 13:58:02

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what do you think? 2019-04-15 12:22:16

How Much Fat Can You Lose?  

The faster you are losing weight, the less fat you're likely to be losing -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-15 06:10:02

How Can We Increase Trust in Vaccines?  

A look at India’s experience could provide an answer -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-15 03:33:18

Encounters with the Keeling Curve  

A geologist recounts his first experiences with the celebrated graph that proved CO2 levels are rising -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-15 03:11:21

Environmental Thinker Bill McKibben Sounds Warning on Technology  

Known for climate change work, the pioneer says global warming, AI and genetic engineering are self-inflicted threats to humanity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-15 03:03:31

Washington Aims to Decarbonize its Electricity Grid  

It is the fourth state to pursue such a plan, with a couple others looking at following suit -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-15 01:13:03

Busted Mastodon Is Ice Age Roadkill  

A mastodon said to be pulverized by Ice Age humans was probably busted up by roadwork -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-14 10:18:15

Thomas Kuhn Wasn't So Bad  

A former student of the influential philosopher defends him against filmmaker Errol Morris’s “character assassination”  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-14 05:07:25

Are Trigger Warnings Actually Helpful?  

New research suggests that trigger warnings are, at best, trivially helpful. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-13 12:39:34

Mastodons to the Max  

A fossil skeleton found in California leads to the discovery of a new mastodon species. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-13 04:02:15

How Climate-Friendly Would Flying Cars Be?  

Flying electric cars would have lower emissions over long trips than standard electric vehicles -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-13 03:16:40

Squeezed Potassium Atoms Straddle Liquid and Solid  

At extreme pressures, potassium atoms can be both liquid and solid at the same time, a phase of matter known as 'chain melt.' Christopher Intagliata reports.  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-12 19:40:44

A Second Planet May Orbit Earth's Nearest Neighboring Star  

Informally called “Proxima c,” the candidate world appears to be six times the mass of Earth, and orbits in the frigid outskirts of the Proxima Centauri system -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-12 14:58:57

Would You Give a Virtual Electric Shock to an Avatar?  

In a repeat of a classic experiment, we find that people who are only unenthusiastically obeying unethical orders still experience trauma -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-12 12:21:57

"Hair Dryer" Winds Could Strain Vulnerable Antarctic Ice Shelf  

Warm, dry winds can cause major melt as they sweep across the ice, even during frigid winter months -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-12 11:06:05

Want to Be a Better Scientist? Take an Improv Class  

Active listening and a sense of humor offer benefits for both communication and research -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-12 09:30:37

The Mathematics of (Hacking) Passwords  

The science and art of password setting and cracking continues to evolve, as does the war between password users and abusers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-12 08:03:28

Mars Methane Hunt Comes Up Empty, Flummoxing Scientists  

Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft did not find the gas in red planet’s atmosphere during its first months of operation -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-12 05:07:36

Behind the Buzz: How Ketamine Changes the Depressed Patient's Brain  

The anesthetic-cum-party drug restores the ability to make connections among brain cells -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-12 02:23:34

Philippine Fossils Add Surprising New Species to Human Family Tree  

The second tiny ancestor found in the islands of southeast Asia, Homo luzonensis challenges prevailing views of early human dispersal and adaptability -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-11 18:58:20

After A $14 Billion Upgrade, New Orleans' Levees Are Sinking  

Sea level rise and ground subsidence will render the flood barriers inadequate in just four years -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-11 17:38:49

Why We Should All Use They/Them Pronouns  

Using gendered identifiers, even if we get to choose our own, can reinforce bias and discrimination -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-11 15:29:21

How Work-Family Justice Can Bring Balance to Scientist Moms  

It’s time to change cultural views and expectations around science and motherhood -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-11 12:19:53

Urban Coyote Evolution Favors the Bold  

Coyotes become fearless around people in just a few generations—which isn’t good for their longterm co-existence with humans in cities. Jason G. Goldman reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-11 11:54:07

Environment Watchdogs Harness AI to Track Overflowing Factory Farm Waste  

Floods dump tons of pathogen-laden manure into U.S. waterways, often from hard-to-identify farms -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-11 11:37:43

Mars Methane Hunt Comes up Empty, Flummoxing Scientists  

Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft did not find the gas in red planet’s atmosphere during its first months of operation -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-11 07:55:03

The Event Horizon Telescope, the Hawking Effect and the Foundations of Physics  

A theoretical physicist offers his take on the implications of the first-ever image of a black hole -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-11 06:57:35

Tests on Astronaut and Twin Brother Highlight Spaceflight's Human Impact  

NASA Study reports physiological and behavioral results that could shape future space missions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-11 06:20:50

Israeli Spacecraft Fails to Make First Private Lunar Landing  

Private organization SpaceIL’s Beresheet lander crashes down on the moon following engine and communications problems -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-11 05:32:06

The Tragedy of "The Tragedy of the Commons"  

The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-11 01:22:47

At Last, a Black Hole's Image Revealed  

The Event Horizon Telescope captures one of the universe’s most mysterious objects -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-10 10:59:50

Computers Turn an Ear on New York City  

NYU’s “Sounds of New York City” project listens to the city—and then, with the help of citizen scientists, teaches machines to decode the soundscape. Jim Daley reports.  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-10 10:46:29

An Exit Chute from the Universe: The Story of a Historic Effort to Image a Black Hole  

After more than a decade of effort, a global network of radio telescopes has revealed the first-ever picture of an enigmatic hole in spacetime -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-10 09:30:13

Teaching Evolution to Tibetan Monks  

When cultural beliefs clash with science, a little humor and a little humility never hurts -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-10 05:28:19

"Hyperscans" Show How Brains Sync as People Interact  

Social neuroscientists ask what happens at the level of neurons when you tell someone a story or a group watches movies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-10 03:56:09

A New Way to Detect Smell  

Discovery of odorous markers for neurodegenerative disease -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-10 03:28:45

A Deep Dive into Deep Learning  

A personal journey to understand what lies beneath the startling powers of advanced neural networks -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-10 02:57:31

How to Disclose a Mental Health Issue  

Should you tell your best friend? Your date? Your impatient boss? This week, Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen walks you through this tough decision -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-10 02:52:13

Mountain Glaciers Are Major Contributors to Rising Seas  

They are as big a source of sea level rise as the Greenland Ice Sheet and larger than Antarctica -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-09 18:38:44

Proof Without Words  

The sum of squares -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-09 13:46:55

A Geological "Orrery" Could Reveal Planetary Dynamics in Deep Time  

Paul Olsen drills into the Earth’s sedimentary record for clues about the evolution of the solar system -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-09 09:46:56

Whitening Strips Alter Proteins in Teeth  

Hydrogen peroxide in whitening treatments penetrates enamel and dentin, and alters tooth proteins. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-09 09:33:30

How Much the Public Knows about Science, and Why It Matters  

A new survey shows that it varies dramatically by education, race and ethnicity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-09 08:30:41

Where Did That Promising Scientist Disappear To?  

Family leave policies leave women faculty behind -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-09 05:53:28

Deadly Volcanic Flows Glide on Their Own Cushion of Air  

The discovery helps explain why pyroclastic flows can travel so far, so fast -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-08 13:11:57

Geneticist Sydney Brenner, Who Made a Tiny Worm a Scientific Legend, Has Died  

The Nobel-prizewinning biologist pioneered the use of C. elegans as an animal model -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-08 08:45:04

Gravitational Observatories Hunt for Lumpy Neutron Stars  

New data reinforces the notion that these exotic stellar corpses are among the universe’s most perfect spheres -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-08 05:50:07

How to Keep Scientific Innovation Alive  

Thinking outside the box is as important for science as it is for a business start-up -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-08 04:25:20

Infrared Light Offers A Cooler Way to Defrost  

Light tuned to a specific frequency warms ice more than water—which could come in handy for defrosting delicate biological samples. Adam Levy reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-08 03:33:26

Coal's Days in Navajo Country Are Numbered  

The Navajo Nation’s shift away from coal and toward renewables is a test case for a wider U.S. transition -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-08 03:31:02

The Secret Sauce for Environmental Problem Solving  

Its collaboration—but that only works when it’s voluntary, not imposed -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-08 01:05:15

Geopuzzle: One of These Three Postulations is Right Out  

Can you determine the least likely scenario? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-07 18:47:28

Remembering the Great Tomsoni  

Johnny Thompson’s magical insights informed neuroscience -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-07 02:43:12

New Zealand Acts to Reduce Mass Shootings. Why Won't the U.S.?  

“Freedom loving” National Rifle Association thwarts Americans’ desire for tougher gun controls -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-06 18:44:16

How the Samoan Tattoo Survived Colonialism  

Several factors, from geography to group identity, helped this traditional body art endure—even as similar practices were lost in other cultures -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-06 12:18:55

Five Reasons to Love the Pythagorean Theorem  

Middle school math teacher Fawn Nguyen tells us why a classic right triangle fact is her favorite mathematical result -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-06 07:41:58

Are Small Stars a Bit Useless?  

For photon-eating life, smaller stars are unavoidably inferior providers–according to thermodynamics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-06 07:20:15

Readers Respond to the December 2018 Issue  

Letters to the editor from the December 2018 issue of Scientific American -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-06 04:28:34

States Target Potent Greenhouse Gases in Absence of Federal Action  

The push to restrict hydrofluorocarbons is one of the clearest examples of states banding together on climate policy -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-05 13:36:09

Implicit Biases toward Race and Sexuality Have Decreased    

New findings suggest that internalized attitudes can change—but not for all identity groups -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-05 12:28:47

Machines That Read Your Brain Waves  

How to make sure noninvasive neural interfaces stay that way -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-05 12:11:10

Yes, EPA: Regulating Mercury Pollution Is "Appropriate and Necessary"  

Public health professionals call out the toxic sleight of hand in the agency’s latest proposal -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-05 12:04:36

A New View of Life on Earth, the Paradox of Quantum Reality and Other New Science Books  

Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-05 08:32:49

Tiny Footprints May Have Been Made by World's Smallest Nonavian Dinosaur  

The raptorlike prints could also have been from juveniles of a larger species -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-05 07:55:09

How to Turn Failure into Success    

Research reveals strategies for staying motivated in the face of challenges  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-05 07:18:51

Cyberchondriacs Just Know They Must Be Sick  

Researchers are unraveling the psychological reasons why some people relentlessly self-diagnose themselves online for hours a day -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

what do you think? 2019-04-05 07:12:21