Your Phone Could be Used to Prosecute For Getting an Abortion. Here's how.

Technology editor Sophie Bushwick breaks down  precedent for using your phone to monitor personal health data. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

1w

If Sea Ice Melts in the Arctic, Do Trees Burn in California?

A new study links sea ice decline with increasing wildfire weather in the Western U.S. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

2w

How to Care for COVID at Home, and Is That Sniffle Allergies or the Virus? COVID Quickly, Episode 30

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

2w

How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy's Black Hole

It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

3w

Two-Headed Worms Tell Us Something Fascinating about Evolution

Researchers looked back at more than 100 years of research and found that a fascination with annelids with mixed up appendages was strong—and that research still has relevance... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

3w

The Harmful Effects of Overturning Roe v. Wade

A landmark study of women who were turned away from getting the procedure found that being forced to have a child worsened their health and economic status. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

3w

Safer Indoor Air, and People Want Masks on Planes and Trains: COVID Quickly, Episode 29

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

4w

Climate Change Is Shrinking Animals, Especially Bird-Brained Birds

As the world warms, many animals are getting smaller. For birds, new research shows what they have upstairs may just make a different in how much smaller they get. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Apr 2022

Cosmic Simulation Shows How Dark-Matter-Deficient Galaxies Confront Goliath and Survive

A research team finds seven tiny dwarf galaxies stripped of their dark matter that nonetheless persisted despite the theft. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Apr 2022

The Benefits of Hybrid Immunity, and Venturing Back to the Office: COVID Quickly, Episode 28

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Apr 2022