Liz Seegert is an independent health journalist based in New York's Hudson Valley. Subscribe to Scientific American to learn ...

Emiliana Simon-Thomas is science director of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She ...

Darwin A. Guevarra is an assistant professor of psychology at Miami University. He studies affective processes, such as ...

Xuhai “Orson” Xu is an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University. He studies human-computer ...

A map of DNA methylation changes in human organs—from the stomach to the retinas—could help researchers discover more targets ...

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Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly understood ...

A cable design that sends light through air rather than solid glass could cut signal loss and make long-distance ...

Overcoming three recent failed tries, Elon Musk’s rocket company successfully flew its reusable jumbo booster and upper-stage ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

Surgeons think the first transplantation of a pig lung in a human is an exciting step forward for the field, but many ...

A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors ...