How Does the Quantum World Cross Over?
The universe according to quantum mechanics is strange and probabilistic, but our everyday reality seems nailed down. New experiments aim to probe where—and why—one realm passes into the other...
Features
How to Overcome Antiscientific Thinking
Convincing people who doubt the validity of climate change and evolution to change their beliefs requires overcoming a set of ingrained cognitive biases
The Real Paleo Diet
Microscopic wear patterns on fossil teeth reveal what our ancestors ate—and provide insights into how climate change shaped human evolution
How Gene Expression Runs on a Clock--and What It Means for Medical Treatments
How the body's cycles went from folk medicine to modern science
Dogs Have a Lot More Neurons Than Cats
Dogs beat their domesticated rivals, cats, in a new attempt to measure cognitive power
Weather-Smart Electric Grids Are Needed for Wind and Solar Power to Surge
Renewable energy will rule only when weather data drive the design of a new electric grid
Buzz Kill: Our Best Weapons against Mosquitoes
As mosquito-borne diseases spread, scientists are fighting back with new poisons, traps and genetic engineering techniques
Departments
- From the Editor
Barriers between Realities: Irrational Thinking and the Quantum–Classical Divide
- Letters
Readers Respond to the March 2018 Issue
- Advances
Mystery of Earth's Missing Nitrogen Solved
How Perceptive Are You? Not Everyone Is the Same
Engineered Microbe Shakes Up the Tree of Life
Superslow Brain Waves May Play a Critical Role in Consciousness
First Woman Air and Space Museum Director Talks about Inspiring the Next Generation
In Case You Missed It
How to Convert Your Wall into a Giant Touch Screen
Wealthy Families Invest More in Sons
Gunshot Sensors Pinpoint Destructive "Fish Bombs"
- Forum
Relaxing Vehicle-Efficiency Standards Is a Truly Dangerous Idea
- The Science of Health
Extreme Flu? Weird Encephalitis? It May Be Your Genes
- The Science Agenda
Addicts Should Be Able to Shoot Up Legally in Safe-Injection Facilities
- TechnoFiles
Megamergers I'd Like to See
- Skeptic
Will Science Ever Solve the Mysteries of Consciousness, Free Will and God?
- Anti Gravity
A Look at the Inner Lives of 13 Species of Animals You Think You Know
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
"Foul Treachery" of Trotsky and Lenin in 1918; Phineas Gage's Brain in 1868
- Graphic Science
The Same Genes May Underlie Different Psychiatric Disorders
- Reviews
The True Point of Searching for Alien Life; the Misuse of Genetics and Other New Science Books
