Humans Evolved to Exercise
Unlike our ape cousins, humans require high levels of physical activity to be healthy
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Loopy Particle Math
Scientists are creating mathematical tools to identify novel particles and phenomena at the world's largest particle accelerator
What Can Baboon Relationships Tell Us about Human Health?
Strong relationships seem to help baboons overcome early life adversity, and that could have big implications for human health
Does Weight-Loss Surgery Rewire Gut–Brain Connections?
Bariatric procedures are revealing new insights into the dialogue between bowel and brain
Scrubbing Carbon from the Sky
Can we remove enough CO2 from the atmosphere to slow or even reverse climate change?
Clinical Trials Have the Best Medicine but Do Not Enroll the Patients Who Need It
Most cancer patients never get into lifesaving drug trials because of barriers at community hospitals
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- From the Editor
How Physical Activity and Gut–Brain Connections Combine to Make Us Healthier
- Letters
Readers Respond to the September 2018 Issue
- Advances
A Blood Test for the Body's Clock
Glaciers "Sing" as They Crack at Night
How Many Manatees Are There? There's an Algorithm for That
Google Searches Could Predict Heroin Overdoses
The Lawn Grass Probably Isn't Greener
Simple Genetic Mutation Helped Humans Become Endurance Runners
In Case You Missed It
New App Helps People Remember Faces
How Brain Injuries Deprive People of a Sense of Free Will
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Diversity in the Lab Makes Me a Better Scientist
- The Science of Health
What Ails a Woman's Heart
- The Science Agenda
It's Time to Get Arsenic and Other Toxic Substances out of Baby Food
- TechnoFiles
What's Changed Since My First Column for Scientific American
- Recommended
Standout Science Visualizations, the Quest for Quasicrystals and Other New Science Books
- Skeptic
The Case for Scientific Humanism
- Anti Gravity
Ravenmaster Christopher Skaife Tells of His Relationships with the Tower of London's Resident Birds
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
The Fight over Abortion Heats Up, 1969; The Price of Helium, 1919
- Graphic Science
Take Your Pills When Your Genes Are Most Active
