Today we begin a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...
February 26, 2021 — Tanya Lewis, Josh Fischman, Jeffery DelViscio and Sunya Bhutta
Scientific American ’s senior medicine editor Josh Fischman talks about issues in medicine and public health that will be affected by this election.
October 27, 2020 — Josh Fischman and Steve Mirsky
A high mountain in China turns into a safe haven for the declining insects
October 23, 2020 — Josh Fischman
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna win for technology that gives scientists unprecedented abilities to change the code of life
October 7, 2020 — Josh Fischman
It is time for a fresh approach to the illness
April 14, 2020 — Josh Fischman
The power packs drive mobile phones, laptops, electric cars and solar panels
October 9, 2019 — Josh Fischman
A new book shows off spectacular works of art inspired by mathematical principles
May 22, 2019 — Josh Fischman
Three scientists sped up evolutionary changes in the lab to make cleaner fuels and cancer drugs
October 3, 2018 — Josh Fischman
Dogs beat their domesticated rivals, cats, in a new attempt to measure cognitive power
June 20, 2018 — Josh Fischman
Three scientists developed microscope methods that use electrons and cold temperature to reveal tiny details of life’s machinery
October 4, 2017 — Josh Fischman
Thursday night's quake, near an undersea crust collision zone, was the strongest to hit Mexico in a century
September 8, 2017 — Josh Fischman
Jellyfish manipulate physics to become the most efficient animals moving in the sea
May 10, 2017 — Josh Fischman
California Gov. Jerry Brown gives strategy tips at huge research meeting; some scientists think there are opportunities they can seize
December 15, 2016 — Josh Fischman
A new seafloor microscope is revealing life-and-death battles between hair-thin creatures
December 2, 2016 — Josh Fischman
Here are treatments that have been well-studied, and the evidence for how well they work—or do not
November 12, 2016 — Josh Fischman
A trio who built motors and devices a fraction the size of a human hair has set the stage for a new type of industry
October 5, 2016 — Josh Fischman
Two scientists describe attempts to find genes that help endangered crops survive rising salt levels
July 16, 2016 — Josh Fischman
How many active volcanoes does the U.S. have? Where is sea level rising the fastest? These 10 questions test your risk savvy
June 23, 2016 — Josh Fischman
The effective swimming motions of jellyfish inspire submarine design and medical diagnotics
May 6, 2016 — Josh Fischman
Heavy rainstorms, tied to global warming, will not send gravelly, stony rivers raging over the landscape
May 5, 2016 — Josh Fischman
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