How Mammals Conquered the World after the Asteroid Apocalypse
They scurried in the shadows of dinosaurs for millions of years until a killer space rock created a new world of evolutionary opportunity
Features
How the Brain 'Constructs' the Outside World
Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish
Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Are Finally Coming into Focus
Twenty years after their initial detection, enigmatic blasts from the sky are starting to deliver tentative answers, as well as plenty of science
U.S. Kids Are Falling behind Global Competition, but Brain Science Shows How to Catch Up
Paid parental leave and high-quality child care improve children’s brain development and prospects for a better future
Special Report
Innovations In
The Urgent Need to Improve Health Equity
A special package highlights problems and solutions
Mental Health Care Should Be Available for All, Not a Luxury
The stress of COVID fractured a system that was already cracked
HIV Care Has Improved Dramatically--But Not for Everyone
The HIV/AIDS crisis has lessons for the COVID pandemic and other health inequities
People Who Are Making Health Care More Fair
Four innovators are finding new solutions for the problem of injustice
Science Still Doesn't Understand How Our Sex Affects Our Health
Our X and Y chromosomes represent the biggest genetic difference in our species. Medicine routinely ignores their influence. Why?
Tuberculosis Is the Oldest Pandemic, and Poverty Makes It Continue
Tuberculosis is preventable and curable, yet it afflicts one quarter of the world’s population—mostly because of poverty
Discrimination Is Breaking People's Hearts
Heart attacks, strokes and other consequences of cardiovascular disease are particularly dangerous for people who face inequity
Departments
- From the Editor
Mammals' Perseverance, Fast Radio Bursts and Health Justice
- Letters
Readers Respond to the February 2022 Issue
- Advances
Researchers Made a New Message for Extraterrestrials
How Parachute Frogs Took to the Sky
Insights from Pregnancy Could Help Fight Cancer
Marine Microbe Lures Prey into Custom Slime Traps
Science News Briefs from around the World: June 2022
See Crystals Form a Mesmerizing World of Microscopic Landscapes
AI Can Predict Potential Nutrient Deficiencies from Space
Redwoods Grow Weird Leaves to Suck Water from Air
Common Drugs Pollute Rivers on Every Continent
New 'Ionogels' Are Tough, Stretchable and Easy to Make
Acne Inflammation Discovery Could Lead to New Treatments
- Forum
There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID
- The Science of Health
Your Body May Be Able to Repair Its Arthritic Joints with Help from Drugs or Surgery
- The Science Agenda
To Prevent Nuclear Annihilation, Resume Negotiations Immediately
- Recommended
A Playbook for Science Denial, 'Scientific Phallocracy' in the Animal Kingdom, and More
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: June 2022
- Graphic Science
How Skin Cancer Rates Vary across the Globe
- Meter
Poem: 'Vaulted Seeds,' after the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
- Mind Matters
Most of Us Combine Personality Traits from Different Genders
- Observatory
Predatory Journals That Publish Shoddy Research Put People's Lives at Risk
