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The hidden genius behind nonreflective glass
Want to smell more attractive? Try these foods
A historic moon mission, AI that helps restore stroke patients’ voice and the oldest cave art ever found
The quest for Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA
What is consciousness, really?
EPA weakens air pollution rules, cancer survival soars, and NASA evacuates astronauts
How Venezuela’s Heavy Crude Shapes Climate Risks
The Great Seed Oil Panic
Woodpeckers Rock the Lab, AI Steps Out of the Chat Box, and Flu Hits Hard
Weighing the Good and Bad of Weight-Loss Drugs
America’s Children Face a New Era of Health Risk
How to Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick
ENCORE: Algorithmic Social Media Is Driving New Slang
ENCORE: Understanding the Science of ‘Squirting’
ENCORE: Science’s Greatest 180s
The Quest for Climate-Ready Christmas Trees
2025: The Year Science Was Shaken
The Hidden Voices of Monk Seals
Inside the Struggle to Save an Orca Community
Hobbit Disappearance Explained, Second-Hottest Year Looms, New Mpox Variant Found
Karen Hao on Why AI Is Reshaping Society
Can NASA Deliver on Perseverance’s Promise to Reveal Life on Mars?
CDC Vaccine Panel, Satellite Light Pollution, Puppy Power
New Hope for Treating Postpartum Depression?
Scientific American Picks the Best Reads of the Year
Thanksgiving’s Iconic Bird Is Thriving Again in the Wild
Tamer Raccoons, COP30 Recap, New Fluoride Research
The Hidden Worlds of ‘Nanocosmos’
Gut Health Tips for the Holidays
The Digital Time Capsule That Survived Two Decades
Can Vaccines Help Defeat Cancer?
Can AI Ease the Pain of Loss?
Why Some Foods Gross Us Out
The Science of Headaches
Why Defiance Can Be a Virtue
How Hurricane Melissa Became a Meteorologic Outlier
How to Trick-or-Treat Your Gut
How TikTok’s Algorithm Could Shift with a U.S. Spin-off
Mosquitoes Invade Iceland, Earth Darkens, and Bird Flu Returns
Why Medication Safety in Pregnancy Is Still a Mystery
The Science of a Convincing Sorry
Global Superbugs Surge, Chikungunya Hits Long Island, and Satellites Leak Data
The Meteorite That Vanished: El Ali’s Strange Journey
Why Is Lung Cancer Surging among Young Women?
Nobel Prizes, COVID Vaccine Updates and Malnutrition in Gaza
The Doctor behind the Commander in Chief
Chris Hadfield’s Fictional Universe Is Rooted in Real Space History
Enceladus’s Alien Ocean, Ancient Fungi and the Flavor of Influenza
Enter One of the World’s Quietest Rooms
What’s Driving Experts Away from the CDC?
Tylenol and Autism, a Shark Threesome and a Typhoon
The Dead Composer Whose ‘Brain’ Still Makes Music
Mary Roach on the Science of Swapping Human Parts
Vaccine Shakeups, Brain Injury Warnings and Boozy Chimps
Algorithmic Social Media Is Driving New Slang
The Role Our Microbiome Plays In Our ‘Gut Feelings’
Kissing Bugs, Koalas and Clues to Life on Mars
Unpacking the Brain’s Role in Inventing Your Perception
How a Tick Bite Can Make You Allergic to Meat
Marsquakes, Vaccine Politics and Mammoth Microbiomes
Inside the Turmoil at the CDC
Hurricane Forecasting 101
Katrina Was Predicted: Revisiting Warning Signs 20 Years Later
The Deep Sea’s Mysterious Oxygen Source
Science’s Greatest 180s
Could Peanut Allergies Be Cured?
Nature’s Sexual Spectrum Breaks the Binary
Chikungunya Outbreak, Glacial Outbursts and a New Human Ancestor
Dinner with King Tut Explores the Wild World of Experimental Archaeology
Living Longer, Aging Smarter [Sponsored]
Condoms and Vasectomies Aren’t Enough—Is a Male Birth Control Pill Next?
Cosmic Discoveries Soar as Earthly Health Decisions Stir Alarm
Climate Science Gets a Seat in Congress with Eric Sorensen
Former NASA Leaders Are Sounding the Alarm on Budget Cuts
Russia’s Earthquake, Wonders of Walking and Surprising Plant Genetics
Is AI Conscious? Claude 4 Raises the Question
Your Guide to Summer’s Extreme Weather, from Corn Sweat to Flash Floods
Summer Meteor Showers, Short Summer Days and Ancient Arthropods
Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is at Risk—And So Are We
What to Read on the Beach This Summer
Time Travel to Tide Pool 101 from Our July 1925 Issue
Dungeons and Dragons’ Popularity Grows—And Science Follows
The LIGO Lab Is Pushing the Boundaries of Gravitational-Wave Research
This Surgery Can Lead to Weight Loss—But Stigma Is Harder to Shake Off
Why Do We Sing? Musicologists and Neuroscientists Seek an Answer
What Does an Ailing Coral Reef Sound Like?
An Astronaut Shares His Passion for Space Photography—Live, from the ISS Cupola
Move Over Fireworks—Drone Shows Are Taking to the Skies
Talking to the Host of Drilled about the Legal Battles around Standing Rock
How to Fight Bird Flu If It Becomes the Next Human Pandemic (Part 3)
Bird Flu’s Jump to Cattle Took Dairy Farmers by Surprise (Part 2)
How Bird Flu Went from an Isolated Avian Illness to a Human Pandemic Threat (Part 1)
What No One Tells You about Testosterone Replacement Therapy
Why Your Gut Loves a Good Workout
CDC Vaccine Panel Fired by RFK, Jr., Oceans Grow More Acidic, and Pangolins Threatened by Hunting
These Adorable Hamster Dads Take Fatherhood Seriously
What ‘Immortal’ Jellyfish and Famously Old Tortoises Tell Us about Aging
Cosmic Coin Toss, Record Heat in the North Atlantic and Living Worm Towers
Is the National Weather Service Ready for an Extreme Summer?
Megalodon Diets, Teeth Sensitivity and a Bunch of Vaccine News