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By Laura Helmuth

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It’s a big year for us at Scientific American. We relaunched our podcast series, called Science Quickly, which is reaching more podcast fans than ever. (I highly recommend our recent series on the biggest birds in the history of the world.) We’re updating our customer service platform to make it easier to subscribe and give gifts. Our engineering team is strengthening our infrastructure to make our website faster and improve the user experience.

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Laura Helmuth was formerly editor in chief of Scientific American. She previously worked as an editor for the Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian and Science. She is a former president of the National Association of Science Writers. She is currently a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's standing committee on advancing science communication and an advisory board member for SciLine and The Transmitter. She has a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley. She recently won a Friend of Darwin Award from the National Center for Science Education. Follow her on Bluesky @laurahelmuth.bsky.social

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