Science

January 8, 2024 4 min read Recent Tesla Autopilot and Cruise robo-taxi news has raised public concern. Strong federal and…

Brianne Kane: Have you ever thought about how strange everything is? Ha, no—but really, something happens in January, when it…

January 3, 2024 4 min read Middle-aged stars hit cruise control, stifling their magnetic fields and resisting the slowdown that…

January 1, 2024 4 min read Letters to the editors for the September 2023 issue of Scientific American Credit: Scientific…

December 28, 2023 3 min read Here’s the best, most inspiring and coolest science we encountered this year By Sarah…

Three years after more than 3,600 health workers died of covid-19, occupational safety experts warn that those on the front lines…

January 1, 2024 3 min read Lunar influences, parallel universes, taking over a dead relative’s online identity, and more books…

December 21, 2023 4 min read For the first time, researchers have used behavioral measures, brain imaging and molecular biology…

December 18, 2023 3 min read The James Webb Space Telescope caught its second glimpse of the year of Uranus…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Have you planned…