You Really Can Learn in Your Sleep
Experimental techniques demonstrate how to strengthen memories when our brains are off-line
Features
How Cooperating Microbes Shaped Life on Earth
Microbial partnerships turn out to be more common and influential than scientists could have ever imagined
The Search for the Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe
Astronomers have found some of the most distant galaxies in the universe, opening a window on a previously unknown period of cosmic history
Geometry versus Gerrymandering
Mathematicians are developing statistical forensics to identify districts that disenfranchise voters
The Science of Inequality
How high economic inequality negatively impacts nearly every aspect of human well-being—as well as the health of the biosphere
The American Economy Is Rigged
And what we can do about it
How Economic Inequality Inflicts Real Biological Harm
The growing gulf between rich and poor inflicts biological damage on bodies and brains
Algorithms Designed to Fight Poverty Can Actually Make It Worse
How algorithms designed to alleviate poverty can perpetuate it instead
How Economic Inequality Harms the Environment
Power imbalances facilitate environmental degradation—and the poor suffer the consequences
How the Trust Trap Perpetuates Inequality
Corruption, distrust and inequality reinforce one another in a destructive loop
The Harm That Data Do
Paying attention to how algorithmic systems impact marginalized people worldwide is key to a just and equitable future
Departments
- From the Editor
Learning While Sleeping; the Challenges of Inequality
- Letters
Readers Respond to the July 2018 Issue
- Advances
CRISPR Gene Editing Shows Promise for Treating a Fatal Muscle Disease
Scientists Create Artificial Wood That Is Water- and Fire-Resistant
Visualizing Specific Impacts of Climate Change Could Change Behavior
Artificial Intelligence Is Learning to Keep Learning
What Linguistics Can Tell Us about Talking to Aliens
Female Cockroaches May Cluster Together to Avoid Male Harassment
Why Are There So Few Female Leaders?
Redefining the Kilogram
Scientists Identify Genes Linked to REM Sleep
In Case You Missed It
- Forum
Income Inequality's Most Disturbing Side Effect: Homicide
- The Science of Health
Why Oral Cancer Threatens Men
- The Science Agenda
Voters Need to Elect a Congress That Will Hold the Executive Branch Accountable
- TechnoFiles
How Good Is Tesla's "Enhanced Autopilot" Feature?
- Recommended
The Roots of Data Visualization, Why We Kill Ourselves, and Other New Science Books
- Skeptic
The Singular of "Data" Is Not "Anecdote"
- Anti Gravity
Factors That Up the Chances an Exotic Pet Gets Released into the Wild
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
November 1918: Peace Arrives, but Influenza Sweeps the World
- Graphic Science
Illicit Nuclear Bomb Tests Get Pinned Down