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Introducing Scientific American’s New Today in Science Newsletter

Laura Helmuth

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How to Protect Yourself from Smoky Wildfire Air

Lauren J. Young

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How to Use the Air Quality Index

Stephanie Pappas

Lung Cancer Pill Halves Risk of Death in Some People

For lung cancer patients who have a specific genetic mutation, taking a pill called osimertinib after surgery greatly reduced the risk of lung cancer recurrence

Meghan Bartels

Electronics

Introducing Scientific American’s New Today in Science Newsletter

Laura Helmuth

Pollution

How to Protect Yourself from Smoky Wildfire Air

Lauren J. Young

Pollution

How to Use the Air Quality Index

Stephanie Pappas

Animals

Octopuses Redesign Their Own Brains When They Get Chilly

Rachel Nuwer

Sociology

E. Jean Carroll’s Case Reveals the ‘Double Victimization’ of Sexual Assault Survivors

Adam Galinsky | Opinion

Vaccines

mRNA Vaccines Could Prevent Diseases in Farm Animals

David Verhoeven and The Conversation US

Space Exploration

Space Exploration

Scientists Make Best-Yet Map of Solar System’s Interstellar Boundaries

Theo Nicitopoulos

Neuroscience

Where Imagination Lives in Your Brain

Ingrid Wickelgren

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Why Do Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs?

Crablike bodies are so evolutionarily favorable that they’ve evolved at least five different times

Laurel Hamers and LiveScience

India Cuts Periodic Table and Evolution from School Textbooks

The periodic table, as well as evolution, won’t be taught to under-16s in India as they start the new school year

Dyani Lewis and Nature magazine

How Dreams Reveal Brain Disorders

Examining dream content can assist in the diagnosis of psychiatric and neurological illnesses. What does fighting off a lion mean?

Marie-Neige Cordonnier

The Pandemic Caused a Baby Boom in Red States and a Bust in Blue States

The COVID pandemic caused a U.S.-wide decline in fertility rates, but red states actually saw increases

This Massive Scientific Discovery Sat Hidden in a Museum Drawer for Decades

The fossil was a prehistoric bird called Pelagornis sandersi, and its wings stretched out twice as wide as those of the great albatross.

Natural Disasters

How Long Will Wildfire Smoke Last, and Where Will It Spread?

Smoke from record-setting wildfires in Canada has blanketed parts of the eastern U.S., but shifting summer weather patterns should bring relief

Meghan Bartels and Andrea Thompson

Special Report

Inside the New Missions to Jupiter's Moons

Inside the New Missions to Jupiter's Moons

Planetary Science

Spacecraft will explore hidden oceans and the possibility of life on the moons of Jupiter

May 1, 2023

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Videos

Listen to the Astonishing 'Chirp' of Two Black Holes Merging

Some of the most violent cosmic collisions occur silently in the vacuum of space, but with the right instrumental ears, we can still hear it happen. Here's how.

June 1, 2023

Pollution

Will the Chesapeake Bay Become a Dead Zone?

May 3, 2023

Conservation

This Astoundingly Simple Ancient Technique Is Helping to Beat Back Drought

April 20, 2023

Dark Matter

Vera Rubin Lives On in Lives of the Women She Helped in Astronomy

March 31, 2023

Microbiology

Mysterious Microbes in Earth's Crust Might Help with the Climate Crisis

March 29, 2023

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