Science Journalism

Learn why a comprehensive comparison of crocodile skulls, teeth, and jaws hints that generalists, not specialists are best built for longevity.

Hear takeaways from 35 years at Scientific American from Gary Stix, our recently retired mind and brain editor.

Genetic analysis of the giant woolly mammoth reveals a surprising amount of genetic diversity over a million years.

Learn why a black hole is becoming active and why experts still can't explain the source of its regular, periodic pattern of X-ray energy flashes.

Learn more about why some research suggests that not knowing can offer surprising benefits.

Learn more about the external factors that may cause you to age faster and the medical advancements that may help slow the aging process.

The high-speed collision may have played a role in forming continents, reshaping land, and creating conditions necessary for early life.

It's impossible to know exactly what ancient people saw in the night sky. Learn more about their relationships with outer space and possible aliens.

Increasingly crowded orbits full of satellites and debris pose potential hazards for services on Earth, and need regulation.

While the tool may require less chips to operate and demand smaller fees to run, it may also carry security risks.

Discover how probing the components of the half-asteroid, half-comet hybrids reveals that carbon dioxide was present during the solar system's formation.

This year saw several advancements across medicine, space technology, and AI that extend our knowledge in consequential ways.

Learn how the Tiffany Effect impacts our understanding of culture and the past.

Learn how violent solar storms shower Earth with radioactive atoms.

Learn how measuring and monitoring astronauts' cognitive abilities could improve performance, safety on longer missions.

Researcher draws on Parasaurolophus skull structure to build a device that emulates how the ancient creatures sounded.

Oak trees have genetic flexibility that allows them to solve ecological problems. But even they will need our help to survive climate change

New application of Raman spectroscopy imaging allows scientists to probe the chemical composition of sailors lost at sea over 500 years ago.

What works to improve health equity? And it might be time to end the leap second

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was given to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of an important gene-manipulating mechanism in cells