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Our neat ways of measuring tend to seem like they have always existed. A romp through history shows it is...

Editor’s Note (6/14/22): The current hearings on the January 6, 2021, insurrection, held by a U.S. House of Representatives committee,...

El Salvador has invested heavily in bitcoin and related infrastructure in a bold plan to build its economy around the...

If the stars hadn't aligned, two of the most remarkable spacecraft ever launched never would have gotten off the ground....

By Matthew Sparkes 3D rendering of a computer chipjiang jie feng/Shutterstock Hertzbleed, a newly identified attack that could be used...

Credit: Scientific American MIND, July/August 2022Advertisement A fascinating study was published in 2015 showing that in cultures with higher rates...

The US may restrict the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes because of potential harm to teenagers. But evidence suggests vaping is...

Every object we see is a mirror to some extent. The glassy surface of a lake on a windless day...

A new online atlas can predict how life expectancy is affected by contracting one of 1800 diseases – although the...

CLIMATEWIRE | The world’s first carbon border fee was always expected to roil nations that export their emissions through polluting...

Meteorite analysis hints that early Mars got important volatile elements like hydrogen and oxygen from meteorite collisions rather than a...

How many oil slicks are there in the ocean? Where are they, and where did they come from? These seem...

A group of several hundred polar bears in south-eastern Greenland often catch seals by waiting outside their prey's breathing holes...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Think of a top executive at a powerhouse company....

Panarea, a volcanic island near Sicily, Italy, is the site of plenty of underwater volcanic activity – which has now...

Fiction Power on Trial In a future where people hold the perpetrators of the climate crisis to account, what has...