Stories by Andrea Gawrylewski

New research pins the maximum length of human life

If you understand how these systems operate, then you understand why they could change everything.

After a year of living cautiously and more isolated, here’s how to resume public routines

This revolutionary gene-editing system has taken science by storm.

You have 86 billion of them inside you, but do you understand how hard it was for us to learn that?

The mysteries packed inside these invisible space objects stretch our concepts of space and time.

Surprising new data from the Muon g-2 experiment are turning the classical model on its head

What the experts say people can do after they get a vaccine

These sometimes deadly packets of genetic information are more numerous in number than the stars in the cosmos.

How to feel less stressed and more empowered and to create a life of meaning—without your phone

Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

Vaccines are medicines that train the body to defend itself against future disease, and they have been saving human lives for hundreds of years.

Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

A surprising number of COVID-recovered patients deal with an array of troublesome symptoms, well after the disease is gone

Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

Top things our brains need to help us get through the coming months

Radioactive elements found in the cores of planets may determine which worlds might host living species

Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

With a vaccine in limited availability, many still need medicines to keep the virus at bay

Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American