How Gaslighting Manipulates Reality
Gaslighting isn’t just between people in a relationship—it involves social power, too
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How Parents' Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children
Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways
Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Have Devastating Health and Financial Impacts, Landmark Study Showed
The researcher who led the Turnaway Study explains how being denied an abortion had lasting negative effects on those who were forced to carry their pregnancies to term and on their children...
Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down
The pioneering probes are still running after nearly 45 years in space, but they will soon lose some of their instruments
The First Milky Way Black Hole Image Lets Scientists Test Physics
The first image of the behemoth at the center of our galaxy opens new avenues for understanding the nature of black holes
JWST's First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology
The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images of the distant universe shocked astronomers. Is the discovery of unimaginably distant galaxies a mirage or a revolution?
Women Are Creating a New Culture for Astronomy
A new generation of scientists are challenging the biased, hierarchical status quo
Astronomers Gear Up to Grapple with the High-Tension Cosmos
A debate over conflicting measurements of key cosmological properties is set to shape the next decade of astronomy and astrophysics
This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives
Heat waves broke temperature records around the world this past summer, but it will still be one of the coolest summers of the next few decades
How Migrating Birds Use Quantum Effects to Navigate
New research hints at the biophysical underpinnings of their ability to use Earth’s magnetic field lines to find their way to their breeding and wintering grounds
Antarctica's Collapse Could Begin Even Sooner Than Anticipated
Two expeditions to the Thwaites Ice Shelf have revealed that it could splinter apart in less than a decade, hastening sea-level rise worldwide
The Mystery of Milky Seas Is Finally Being Solved
Scientists are uncovering more about an eerie phenomenon that has bewildered seafarers for centuries
Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom
Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade
Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power
Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic
COVID Long Haulers Are Calling Attention to Chronic Illnesses
But society is not prepared for the growing crisis of long COVID
Citizen Militias in the U.S. Are Moving toward More Violent Extremism
In some members, a longing for “simpler” times is giving rise to deadly activities
Departments
- From the Editor
A Year of Wonder, Awe and Discovery
- The Science Agenda
Contagions Worse Than COVID Will Prevail if Neglect of Global Public Health Continues
Evidence Shouldn't Be Optional
- Graphic Science
How Climate Change Will Hit Younger Generations
- News
Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID
Russia Is Using 'Digital Repression' to Suppress Dissent
- Opinion
Research on Gun Violence Has Been Thwarted: It's Now More Urgent Than Ever
Anti-Trans Laws Will Have a Chilling Effect on Medicine
