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2025’s Scientific Landscape Upended as Federal Overhauls, Public Health Setbacks, Climate...
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.As the year comes to an end, instead of catching...
Science Crossword: Pointing South | Scientific American
Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be...
Meet Your Plastic Pal | Scientific American
When Czech writer Karel Čapek coined the word “robot” in his 1920 play R.U.R., he imagined tireless “artificial workers” liberating people from drudgery....
Death by Fermented Food | Scientific American
December 7, 20253 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmDeath by Fermented FoodSome fermenting foods can carry the risk of a bacterium that...
Scientific American’s Best Nonfiction of 2025
Discovering nonfiction that reads like a story but keeps the scholarship front and center is the great white whale hunt for bookish adventurers....
Scientific American’s Best Fiction of 2025
There’s no easier way to explore far-off planets or find your one true love than by reading a great book. Scientific American’s staffers...
The Scientific American Staff’s Favorite Books of 2025
Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are...
Scientific American’s Best Fiction and Nonfiction Picks for Science-Minded Readers
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.One way that we here at Scientific American stay on...
WHO Unveils GLP-1 Guidelines | Scientific American
December 1, 20252 min readWHO Sets GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drug GuidelinesNew WHO guidance calls for a worldwide obesity treatment “ecosystem” to ensure that GLP-1...
Math Puzzle: Falling Through | Scientific American
Some say the reason most manhole covers are round is that a circle cannot fall through a smaller circular hole. Which of these...
