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Joints Are the Ultimate Flex

Weekend Rain Poses Landslide Risk in Wildfire-Scarred Los Angeles

Los Angeles Fires Force Us to Confront Our Dystopian Present

How Reality TV Helps Explain Trump’s Success

Trump Cancels Science Reviews at NIH, World’s Largest Public Biomedical Research Funder

Los Angeles Fires Delay Release of New Fire Risk Maps

The Health Effects of FDA-Authorized ZYN Nicotine Pouches

Teaching Evolution Has a Bright Future in the U.S.

Are Saturn’s Rings Vanishing? That Depends on Your Point of View

Community Science Initiatives You Can Do on a Trip to the Outdoors

The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake?

Remembering Margarethe Hilferding, the First Woman Admitted to Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic Society

Glowing “Mystery Mollusk” Finally Identified

The Latest on Bird Flu in Humans, Cats and Chickens

Trump’s Revocation of Environmental Justice Order Will Hurt Marginalized Communities

Do Chatbots Just Need More Time to ‘Think’?

Why Grapefruit Interferes with Medication, and What to Do about It

How Sports Betting Apps Use Psychology to Keep Users Gambling

Are Cats Actually Liquid?

My Climate Protest Arrest Shows the Problem with ‘Social Tipping Point’ Theory

Rare, Record Florida Snow Explained

Here’s What’s in ‘Stargate,’ the $500-Billion Trump-Endorsed Plan to Power U.S. AI

What Trump’s Executive Orders Mean for Science

Scientific American’s 10 Most Anticipated ‘Microhistories’ Coming Out in 2025

Earth Sings with Mysterious Chorus Waves—And Deep Space Does, Too

Why Does Snow Bring Childlike Joy?

Modi’s Government Aims to Trample India’s History

Our Ears Share a Common Ancestry with Fish Gills

What the Federal Court Decision on Net Neutrality Means for the Internet

Why the Paris Climate Treaty Matters in 5 Graphics

Trump Declares Energy Emergency to Push Excess Fossil Fuel Production

‘Electronic Tongue’ Could Taste Your Drinks for You

Transcendent Thinking Boosts Teen Brains in Ways That Enhance Life

The Space Junk Crisis Needs a Recycling Revolution

Science Crossword: It’s All Coming Together

Renew Support for Renewable Energy

Readers Respond to the October 2024 Issue

Poem: ‘Mendeleev’s Nightmare’

Painful Endometriosis Can Affect the Whole Body, Not Only the Pelvis

Mysterious Blobs, Green Monsters and the Space Junk Crisis

Math Puzzle: Build a Square

JWST Photos Reveal Bizarre Physics of Supernova Explosions

How Neandertal DNA May Affect the Way We Think

February 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

Everyone Who Has Ever Been to Space, Charted

Could Seeding Farm Fields with Crushed Rock Slow Climate Change?

Contributors to Scientific American’s February 2025 Issue

Book Review: Tiny, Airborne Threats and Humans’ Reluctance to Face Them

Book Review: The Secret to Why Stories Endure through Generations

Book Review: A Fictional Dystopia That’s Chillingly Familiar