Tag: Scientific
What Happens When an Entire Scientific Field Changes Its Mind
If there is a beginning time point for the Age of Scientific Reversal, it may be 1887—the year when Albert A. Michelson and...
Contributors to Scientific American’s September 2025 Issue
August 19, 20254 min readContributors to Scientific American’s September 2025 IssueWriters, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the storiesBy Jen Schwartz...
The Scientific Debate over Colossal’s ‘De-extinct’ Dire Wolves
For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists...
Scientific American Is Older Than the Discovery of Neptune
In astronomy, 180 years is a very long time—maybe not for the goings-on in the universe but certainly for our understanding of it.When...
Wordology | 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...
Did Disease Defeat Napoleon? | Scientific American
August 10, 20252 min readDid Disease Defeat Napoleon?Napoleon's campaign against the Russian Empire was one of the most costly wars in history. Many...
Congressman Eric Sorensen on Defending Climate Science, Depoliticizing Weather and Bringing...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Representative Eric Sorensen of Illinois spent 22 years forecasting the weather on television before...
Ocean Livestream Captivates Argentina Amid Scientific Research Cuts
new video loaded: Ocean Livestream Captivates Argentina Amid Scientific Research CutsBy Jamie Leventhal and McKinnon de Kuyper•August 8, 2025As Argentina’s president cut funding...
Neurotic Cats, One-Eyed Aliens and Hypnosis for Liars Are among the...
Scientists are trained to thoroughly investigate their new ideas. Sometimes, however, their preliminary research can go down strange rabbit holes, leading to interpretations...
Science Jigsaws | 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...
