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EvolutionAugust 19, 2025

Humans Aren’t as Special as We Once Thought

Other species exhibit capabilities that were once thought to be exclusive to Homo sapiens

Kate Wong

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The EnvironmentAugust 27, 2025

Mining the Deep Sea Could Threaten a Source of Ocean Oxygen

Rachel Feltman, Jeffery DelViscio, Alex Sugiura

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ReproductionAugust 27, 2025

What Falling Global Birth Rates Really Mean for the Future

Lynne Peeples, Nature magazine

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SpacecraftAugust 27, 2025

SpaceX Successfully Launches Starship Spacecraft after String of Mishaps

Dan Vergano

GamesAugust 27, 2025

Spellements: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Emma R. Hasson

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WeatherNovember 11, 2022

Weird Weather: How to Tell a Williwaw from a Haboob

Mark Fischetti

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Public HealthAugust 26, 2025

Repeated Heat Waves Can Age You as Much as Smoking or Drinking

Freda Kreier, Nature magazine

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AstronomyAugust 26, 2025

New Instrument Checks on Proxima Centauri’s Planets

Ivan Farkas

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Public HealthAugust 26, 2025

Microplastics Could Be Turning Bacteria into Drug-Resistant Superbugs

Marta Zaraska

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Celebrating 180 Years of Scientific American

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Neurotic Cats, One-Eyed Aliens and Hypnosis for Liars Are among the Historical Gems Reported in Scientific American

Mark Fischetti

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The UniverseAugust 15, 2025

One Year after Scientific American’s First Issue, the Solar System Grew by a Planet

Phil Plait

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HealthAugust 25, 2025

Scientific American Celebrates 180 Years with Stories of Scientific U-turns

Rachel Feltman, Jeffery DelViscio, Alex Sugiura

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OpinionAugust 1, 2025

U.S. Science and Scientific American Have Weathered Attacks Before and Won

Dan Vergano

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CultureAugust 19, 2025

180 Years of Standing Up for Science

David M. Ewalt

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September 2025 Issue

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Public Health

Can Peanut Allergies Be Cured?

Maryn McKenna

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History of Science

What Happens When an Entire Generation of Scientists Changes Its Mind

Charles C. Mann

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Neuroscience

How Scientists Finally Learned That Nerves Regrow

Diana Kwon

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Sustainability

Plastics Started as a Sustainability Solution. What Went Wrong?

Jen Schwartz

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Cosmology

The Universe Is Static. No, Expanding! Wait, Slowing? Oh, Accelerating

Richard Panek

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Biology

How RNA Unseated DNA as the Most Important Molecule in Your Body

Philip Ball

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Games

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Spellements

Create as many words as you can!

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Math Puzzles

Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.

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Science inspired games, puzzles and quizzes

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Particle Physics

The Secret to the Strongest Force in the Universe

Stanley J. Brodsky, Alexandre Deur, Craig D. Roberts

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Mathematics

Tomorrow’s Quantum Computers Threaten Today’s Secrets. Here’s How to Protect Them

Kelsey Houston-Edwards

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Quantum Physics

Quantum Weirdness in New Materials Bends the Rules of Physics

Douglas Natelson

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Quantum Physics

The Little-Known Origin Story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics

Michelle Frank

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Particle Physics

Physicists Make Matter out of Light to Find Quantum Singularities

Charles D. Brown II

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Particle Physics

Why Aren’t We Made of Antimatter?

Luke Caldwell

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The Mystery of America’s Peanut Allergy Surge—And the Promising Science behind New Treatments

Rachel Feltman, Jeffery DelViscio, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura

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What Can Nature Teach Us about Sex and Gender?

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Public HealthAugust 25, 2025

RFK, Jr., Demanded a Vaccine Study Be Retracted—The Journal Said No

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History of ScienceAugust 19, 2025

What Happens When an Entire Generation of Scientists Changes Its Mind

Total reversals in scientific thinking are rare—but earth-shattering

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Public HealthAugust 25, 2025

Human Case of Flesh-Eating Screwworms Detected in U.S.

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AstronomyAugust 26, 2025

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Planetary ScienceAugust 19, 2025

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