Stories by Carin Leong

On TikTok and other short-form video platforms, Scientific American explored the underground labs of Greenland, brand-new colors and the perfect way to make eggs

As endangered southern resident killer whales fight for survival, federal funding cuts threaten the scientists working to save them.

Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited insulin-producing cells into a man with type 1 diabetes—allowing him to make some of his own insulin without immunosuppressants.

People with this autoimmune disease face much shorter life expectancies in lower-income nations.

Take a walk through Prospect Park with Wild NYC writer Ryan Mandelbaum and learn to connect with nature no matter how urban your environment is.

We’re taking you inside MIT.nano, a clean laboratory facility that is critical to nanoscale research, from microelectronics to medical nanotechnology.

Inspired by a classic movie, conservationists are teaching endangered Northern Bald Ibises to fly south for the winter

Why are bears both adorable and deadly? Scientific American investigates why these apex predators are “friend-shaped”

Vaccine misinformation on social media, smartphone addiction in teens, and more are discussed in this week’s news roundup.

A noninvasive test for genetic material could predict embryo quality in IVF.

When symptoms start, COVID tests may say you’re not infected when you really are.

Nell Greenfieldboyce discusses her new book Transient and Strange, the intimacy of the essays and the science that inspired them.

In 2013 a new user named Cleo took an online math forum by storm with unproved answers. Today she’s an urban legend. But who was she? A 2023 editor's pick. 

The stories we tell about orcas might say more about us than about them

Residents of a mining town waits for economic recovery while physicists under their feet wait for answers from the universe.

Fewer kids got their routine childhood vaccines since before the pandemic. Are lack of access and a loss of trust in science to blame?

More than half of our diet consists of foods that have been industrially processed in some way, and they may be harmful to our health

The popular decongestant phenylephrine is not effective, an FDA panel found. Here’s what to use instead.

An astronomy festival in Italy opted to make all of its events and workshops multisensory. The organizers wanted to see whether sound, touch and smell can, like sight, transmit the wonders of the cosmos.

A blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive events: gamma-ray bursts. By listening to, rather than looking at, the data, she made a critical discovery and changed the field of astronomy.

Space is famously silent, but astronomers and musicians are increasingly turning astronomical data into sound as a way to make discoveries and inspire people who are blind or visually impaired.

Consumers can now get easy tests for Alzheimer’s. But these tests may not really help patients that much—yet.

Four decades into his activism, Robert Bullard looks back on his legacy and the work ahead.

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón discusses her involvement in NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and the inspiration behind her poem, which will travel onboard the spacecraft.