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What the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Means for Science Start-ups

Bailouts mean customers’ deposits are safe, but the Silicon Valley Bank’s demise has sparked concern about future investment in small tech companies

Forever Chemicals Are Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water

Experts hope that with the incoming Biden administration, the federal government will finally regulate a class of chemicals known as PFASs

A Four-Day Workweek Reduces Stress without Hurting Productivity

The results of a test involving dozens of employers and thousands of employees suggests that working only four days instead of five is good for workers’ well-being—without hurting companies...

Spotlight on Women in Science

Honoring women at the forefront of science

Lab-Leak Intelligence Reports Aren’t Scientific Conclusions

Intelligence reports supporting the lab-leak theory for COVID are not based in science

Science Out of the Box

Black Inventor Garrett Morgan Saved Countless Lives with Gas Mask and Improved Traffic Lights

In 1916 he strapped on his “safety hood” and dragged rescuers to safety, but racism prevented him from being hailed as a hero 

A Climate Scientist Is Evaluating the U.S.’s Spy Programs

President Joe Biden named an expert on paleoclimatology to a White House intelligence panel

FBI Takes Down Hive Criminal Ransomware Group

A cybersecurity expert explains how the FBI’s operation against the ransomware group Hive will impact the rest of this criminal industry

Science News Briefs from around the World: February 2023

Sharks wielding research cameras in the Bahamas, Mexico’s spider monkey diplomacy, a carbon “time bomb” in the Republic of Congo, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits...

Adorable Voles, Life as We Don’t Know It and Better Cement

Love in the brain, how dreams predict disease and better words for climate change in this month’s issue of Scientific American

Readers Respond to the October 2022 Issue

Letters to the editor for the October 2022 issue of Scientific American

Science News Briefs from around the World: January 2023

Synchronizing chimpanzees in Zambia, a plankton-trapping ecosystem in the Maldives, Neandertal teeth from Spain, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits

What’s on the Horizon for 2023

Scientific American editors share what scientific events they are paying attention to as 2023 begins

Restrictions on Psilocybin ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Are Easing as Research Ramps Up

Here’s how the psychedelic substance’s legal status has been shifting

Readers Respond to the September 2022 Issue

Letters to the editor for the September 2022 issue of Scientific American

Science News Briefs from around the World: December 2022

Lightning-resistant trees in Panama, an Australian avian arms race, hydrogen-powered trains in Germany, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits

It’s Time for Congress to Support Fusion Energy

Fusion devices for clean, safe, and affordable electricity and industrial heat are making advances and need a push

How Metabolism, Heavy Elements and Quantum Entanglement Really Work

Gravitational waves, the evolution of human metabolism, theodiversity and quantum entanglement in this month’s issue of Scientific American

Readers Respond to the August 2022 Issue

Letters to the editor for the August 2022 issue of Scientific American