The Sciences

Scientists are figuring out the loss of smell in COVID—but not the energy of the not so empty cosmos

Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

Science in meter and verse

Mutual criticism in research is necessary, but it needn’t be nasty

Letters to the editor from the October 2020 issue of Scientific American

Despite slim evidence, testosterone is keeping some women off the field

We need to agree on the evidence—so we can disagree on what to do in light of it

Scientists decode how some snakes “see” in the dark

Top news from around the world

A catalog of Cas9 proteins could provide gene-editing variety

Fossils are being found worldwide, and there are plenty more to come

In conversation, the Harvard University professor explains his shocking hypothesis—and calls out what he sees as a crisis in science