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Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

From figuring out how often you go to the bathroom to potentially being used to prosecute you, your trusty smartphone might not be so trusty in a post-Roe […]

After last year’s heat crisis, Pacific Northwest emergency managers, doctors and even transit systems are using lessons learned to prepare for this summer -- […]

Famed seismologist Lucy Jones explains how building methods and quake dynamics interact—and what to do about the problem -- Read more on […]

With reproductive rights being dismantled, social media companies need to stop propagating lies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

As abortion access becomes more limited in the U.S., primary care providers can and should provide these services to people who need them -- Read more on […]

The researcher who led the Turnaway Study explains how being denied an abortion had lasting negative effects on those who were forced to carry their […]

Researchers tricked out conventional camera traps to snap headshots of Puma concolor, revealing a better way to track the elusive species. -- Read more on […]

The coating deters microorganisms to fight both food waste and foodborne illness -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

We need to make firearms safer, and to do that, we need more robust research funding -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

But the technique must remain in the firefighting toolbox, a new U.S. Forest Service report says -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The detected strain can sometimes cause severe disease in people who are not vaccinated against polio -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

A study of more than 11,000 felines reveals the benefits of genetic testing before breeding -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Will governments apply lessons learned from COVID to this latest viral outbreak? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world’s biosphere  -- […]

The rapid expansion will have significant impacts on ecosystems and the people and animals who rely on them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

An emergency medicine physician remembers witnessing the carnage of more than one mass shooting -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The launch comes after the hottest first two weeks of June ever recorded in Spain -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

A cone snail’s poison helps to form a fast-acting insulin -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission is sparking a frenzy of exciting new astrophysics research -- Read more on […]

Small nations that have done little to cause global warming stand to suffer immeasurably and are increasingly vocal about receiving compensation -- Read more […]

The war in Ukraine shows the urgency of nuclear arms control -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

These organisms’ private “mucospheres” play an outsize role in the planet’s carbon cycle -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com