Social Sciences

How a Russian dialect coach helped Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie master challenging Russian sounds and build a believable accent

Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence suggests

When a young Katharine Burr Blodgett joined future Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir at the General Electric Company’s industrial research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y, it was the start of her brilliant career

The story of a woman whose discoveries in materials science quietly shape our everyday world but whose legacy was long eclipsed by the famous scientist she worked with at the General Electric Company

The remains of a teenage boy who lived around 27,000 years ago suggest he was attacked by a cave bear—some of the first direct evidence of a predator attacking an ancient human

Why can people watch the same video footage and see different things? Neuroscience can help explain

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave might shed light on when early humans migrated to Australia

Play this crossword inspired by the February 2026 issue of Scientific American

Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their spread

Giant atoms; corpses for science

Letters to the editors for the October 2025 issue of Scientific American

The Nobel Prizes remind us how science can unite society and inspire hope for the future