The New Biography of the Sun
Our closest star has a much more exciting biography than scientists once assumed. New research illuminates the sun's past and potential future
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Sorry, Mom and Dad, Toys Cannot Supercharge Your Baby
Hundreds of toys promise to help babies read, learn, do math and walk earlier than expected—many without scientific backing
The Science of Endometriosis
Endometriosis spreads like a vine through the bodies of roughly 176 million women worldwide, causing agony and infertility. Science has struggled to understand the condition, but new research is sparking hope for improved treatments soon...
How Global Warming Is Shrinking Earth's Animals
A rise in global temperatures may be making all kinds of creatures smaller—a trend with worrisome implications
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The Biggest Questions in Science
An editorially independent special report on research into fundamental scientific mysteries, produced with support from The Kavli Prize
What Is Spacetime?
Physicists believe that at the tiniest scales, space emerges from quanta. What might these building blocks look like?
What Is Dark Matter?
An elusive substance that permeates the universe exerts many detectable gravitational influences yet eludes direct detection
What Is Consciousness?
Scientists are beginning to unravel a mystery that has long vexed philosophers
How Did Life Begin?
Untangling the origins of organisms will require experiments at the tiniest scales and observations at the vastest
What Are the Limits of Manipulating Nature?
By reaching down into the quantum world, scientists are hoping to gain more control over matter and energy
How Much Can We Know?
The reach of the scientific method is constrained by the limitations of our tools and the intrinsic impenetrability of some of nature's deepest questions
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- From the Editor
The Sun, Supercharging Babies and the Eternal Search for Knowledge
- Letters
Readers Respond to the February 2018 Issue
- Advances
Living on the Edge: Wildfires Pose a Growing Risk to Homes Built Near Wilderness Areas
Scent of Death: Honeybees Use Odors to Detect Deceased Broods
Oxygen Depletion Smothered Marine Life in Earth's Largest Mass Extinction
Stellar Effort: Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1 Billion Stars
Microbes Living in Antarctic Huts Produce Novel Chemical Compounds
The Quirkier Uses of Graphene
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Speaking a Second Language May Give Low-Income Kids a Boost
Being a Couch Potato May Change Your Personality
- Forum
We Should Teach All Students, in Every Discipline, to Think Like Scientists
- The Science of Health
Why We Won't Miss Opioids
- The Science Agenda
Indigenous Remains Do Not Belong to Science
- TechnoFiles
These Apps Don't Exist Yet--but They Should
- Recommended
Apollo, the Graphic Novel; Scientists on Acid and Other New Science Books
- Skeptic
Web Searches Reveal (in Aggregate) What We're Really Thinking
- Anti Gravity
A Book That Bills Itself as "the Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence"
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50/100/150 Years Ago: The Politics of Urban Riots in 1968
- Graphic Science
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