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Climate models that looked at temperature change could not foresee the effects of drought and fire suppression -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The United States needs to repair the environmental damage that the Trump administration has wrought, both within the U.S. and across the world -- Read more on […]

Our November issue features space wars, a mysterious disorder of mind and brain, and past pandemics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Research reveals techniques that boost accuracy -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The upcoming debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump may be one of the least consequential in decades, experts say -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Any extraterrestrial organisms we find will be made of the same atoms we are—yet their existence will be profoundly important to us nonetheless -- Read […]

President Trump, a congressman and conspiracy fantasists have repeated the myth. But three kinds of evidence point to more than 218,000 U.S. deaths -- Read […]

Ancient sediments show rapid warming and rising seas caused massive thaws that unleashed carbon into the atmosphere -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The independent advisers to the CDC and FDA will not bend to politics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Decades-old specimens solve a long-standing mystery -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Targeting recall processes could let people who are in the disease’s early stages access what they currently can’t remember -- Read more on […]

The diminutive world and others like it could help astronomers probe the mysteries of planet formation -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Researchers say three ancient leather balls, dug up from the tombs of horsemen in northwestern China, are the oldest such specimens from Europe or Asia. […]

His inflammatory appeals are less likely to activate the same decision-making circuits as in 2016 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Journalist Robert Whitaker is more concerned than ever that psychiatric medications do more harm than good -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

An air cargo system in 1920 was ahead of its time -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Here are pandemic highlights for the week -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Despite conflicting data, the highly anticipated results will make the treatment a standard of care in the U.S. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

A vaccine made by Pfizer could seek emergency approval by the third week of November, but it likely won’t be available to the public until mid- to late […]

Researchers dissolved a sugary treat underwater to understand the origin of spiky rock forests -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

From mammals to mollusks, animals living among humans lose their antipredator behaviors. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Several law experts say it is important for judges to understand issues of science relevant to cases they are hearing -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Nirav Shah directs Maine’s response, which is seeing impressive results despite risk factors -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The spacecraft’s first attempt to gather material from the space rock’s surface could become the largest nonlunar sample return in history -- Read […]

Three cases across the world highlight the dangers of challenging the status quo -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com