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A Car Crash Snaps the Daydreaming Mind into Focus
One researcher’s poorly timed attention lapse flipped a car—and pushed science forward.
4 years, 3 months ago
COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden's New Plan
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 J…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Atoms [Sponsored]
Gerd Binnig shared The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience in 2016 for inventing the atomic force microscope. What transformative impact has this invention ha…
4 years, 4 months ago
In Missouri, a Human 'Bee' Works to Better Understand Climate Change's Effects
Researcher Matthew Austin has become a wildflower pollinator, sans the wings.
4 years, 4 months ago
These Baby Bats, like Us, Were Born to Babble
The greater sac-winged bat develops its own language in much the way we do.
4 years, 4 months ago
Their Lives Have Been Upended by Hurricane Ida
Theresa and Donald Dardar lived their whole lives in coastal Louisiana. They knew the “big one” might come someday. It did, and now everything is unc…
4 years, 4 months ago
COVID, Quickly, Episode 13: Vaccine Approval, Breakthrough Infections, Boosters
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 J…
4 years, 4 months ago
Flexible Microprocessor Could Enable an 'Internet of Everything'
Researchers have developed a microprocessor built on high-performance plastic rather than silicon—and they say it could enable smarter food labels an…
4 years, 4 months ago
Years Before COVID-19, Zombies Helped Prepare One Hospital System for the Real Pandemic
An educational experiment used escape rooms and the undead to set the stage for a terrible situation that would become all too real
4 years, 4 months ago
The Incredible, Reanimated 24,000-Year-Old Rotifer
The last time this tiny wheel animalcule was moving around, woolly mammoths roamed the earth.
4 years, 4 months ago