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Former NASA Leaders Are Sounding the Alarm on Budget Cuts

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

Are You Flourishing? This Global Study Has Surprising Takeaways

Diagnosing Male Infertility with a Mechanical Engineering Twist

Could We Speak to Dolphins? A Promising LLM Makes That a Possibility

Do Mitochondria Talk to Each Other? A New Look at the Cell’s Powerhouse

How to Make Gold, Flamingo Food Tornado, and Kosmos-482 Lands

Could Freezing Arctic Sea Ice Combat Climate Change?

Sinking Cities, Waving Cuttlefish and Falling Spacecraft

This Podcast Was Recorded Inside a Particle Collider

Rejecting Toxic Fitness Culture with Casey Johnston

Jupiter’s Cyclones, Amazon’s Satellites and T. rex Collagen

The Fungi Facing Extinction and the Conservationists Working Hard to Protect Them

Griefbots Offer AI Connections with Deceased Loved Ones

Scientific American in 1925: Solar Eclipses, Seances and Some Strange Inventions

How to Become an Urban Naturalist

Our Fear and Fascination around Snakes

Childhood Illnesses Surge, Magnetic Poles Wandered, and a Colossal Squid Is Found

From the Internet’s Beginnings to Our Understanding of Consciousness, This Editor Has Seen It All

A Disinfectant That’s More Powerful Than Bleach—And Safe for Your Skin

A Long Day on Uranus, a Better Method of Making Coffee and Dinos Fossils in Decline

How Are Prenatal Blood Tests Detecting Cancer?

Treating Bacterial Vaginosis as an STI Could Improve Outcomes

How the Science of Safety Helps Tackle Global Risks [Sponsored]

Yodeling Monkeys, Increasing Measles Cases and Stressed Out Americans