Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. It goes without saying that a lot has changed at Scientific American since our first issue came out in 1845.

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. With everything from bird flu to norovirus making headlines these days, it can feel like the world is just packed ...

But Kennedy’s greatest breach with the scientific consensus was likely his insistence that autism is an “epidemic” that must be caused by an environmental exposure that has been introduced ...

But a leaked draft of the president’s 2026 budget request, which Scientific American has reviewed, instead calls for canceling Roman. “This is nuts. You’ve built it, and you’re not going ...

When Scientific American reached out to Faust for comment, he said he couldn’t speak for Harvard. “What I can say on behalf of myself is that I had been seriously considering submitting my ...

Understanding a simple-looking sentence such as “I read this article yesterday” actually requires some sophisticated conceptual computation: a subject (“I”) performed an action (“read ...

The National Institutes of Health said it pulled the policy because of language on diversity and inclusion, in line with directives from the Trump administration ...

But new research published on March 28 in Nature Geoscience suggests that a long-lost geological plate may be siphoning rock from the bottom of the North American craton, eroding it from below ...

Some species seem to live fast and die young. Others, though, “appear not to age,” says João Pedro de Magalhães, a molecular biologist at the University of Birmingham in England. He is ...

Among the affected projects is a joint research effort between the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) and the Air Force Research Lab, Scientific American has learned. If you're ...

According to one estimate, every American consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles every year. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by ...

There are only so many colors that the typical human eye can see; estimates put the number just below 10 million. But now, for the first time, scientists say they’ve broken out of that familiar ...