
Brain-Reading Devices Help Paralyzed People Move, Talk and Touch
Implants are becoming more sophisticated—and are attracting commercial interest
Implants are becoming more sophisticated—and are attracting commercial interest
The same physics that makes quantum computers powerful also makes them finicky. New techniques aim to correct errors faster than they can build up
Scientific American asks experts in medicine, risk assessment and other fields how to balance the risks of COVID with the benefits of visiting public indoor spaces
A debate over conflicting measurements of key cosmological properties is set to shape the next decade of astronomy and astrophysics
Child development researchers are investigating whether the pandemic is shaping early brain development and behavior
Scientists are beginning to dream of how a new generation of super-heavy-lift rockets might enable revolutionary space telescopes and bigger, bolder interplanetary missions
A new generation of scholars working in the Holy Land remain haunted by scripture and riven by modern politics
Modern brain science as we know it began with the work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, whose creative thought sprang from memories of a childhood spent in the preindustrial Spanish countryside...
If the invisible matter does not appear in experiments or particle colliders, we may have to find it in space
Waking yourself from the twilight state just before sleep may help you to solve a challenging problem, a study shows
Radical reconstruction in Seattle is bringing nearly dead urban streams back to productive life
What happens when a deadly virus hits a vulnerable society
Overheating is a major problem for today’s computers, but those of tomorrow might stay cool by circumventing a canonical boundary on information processing
Surprising supply chain breakdowns
COVID energized the Black Lives Matter movement—and provoked a dangerous backlash
The need to reinvent the World Health Organization has become abundantly clear
A new generation of scientists are challenging the biased, hierarchical status quo
How do we live with it?
The pandemic pushed researchers into new forms of rapid communication and collaboration
It’s no longer possible to separate science and politics
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