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The Real Reason Autism Rates Are Rising

Trump Cuts Should Trigger Loud Protests from Scientific Societies

North America May Be Dripping Away Deep under the Midwest

Shift from Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy Will Persist despite Trump Policies, New Analyses Say

NASA and NOAA Trump Funding Cuts Jeopardize These Key Climate and Space Projects

Alan Turing’s Lost Work Could Reveal How Tigers Got Their Stripes

The Dire Wolf Hoopla Hides the Real Story: How to Save Red Wolves

Why Does Vaccine Hesitancy Occur, and How Can People Combat It?

Our ‘Technofossils’ Will Define Us Forever

Hypochlorous Acid Is a Natural Disinfectant for Surfaces and Skin

A Colossal Squid Has Been Filmed in the Deep Sea for the First Time

Harvard’s Stand against Trump Interference Cheered by Scientists despite Risk to Research

Tech Use Associated with Reduced Dementia Risk in Older Adults

Offshore Wind Power Poses Only Limited Risk to Whales, Government Watchdog Report Finds

How and Where Is Nuclear Waste Stored in the U.S.?

Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Loud Snoring in Kids

Why Some Animals Live for Only Days and Others Live for Thousands of Years

These Mysterious Shapes Are at the Heart of Math’s Biggest Puzzles

There Is No Such Thing as a Climate Haven

Science Crossword: Hidden Figures

Readers Respond to the January 2025 Issue

Poem: ‘Live and in Color’

Mysterious Dark Comets Could Unlock Solar System Secrets

Miners Are Pulling Valuable Metals from the Seafloor, and Almost No One Knows about It

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

Math Puzzle: Construct the Dice

Male African Elephants Were Once Thought to Be Solitary—New Research Reveals They Have Complex Social Networks

Hypochlorous Acid Is Trending in Skin Care and Cleaning—But Does It Work?

Contributors to Scientific American’s May 2025 Issue

Beautiful Shapes, a Magic Molecule and Elephant Bromances

A New Bee Crisis Could Make Your Food Scarce and Expensive

Is Public Transit Really Safer than Driving?

Fusion Energy Needs Continued U.S. Leadership to Secure Our Energy Future

Why Are Rare Earth Metals So Precious?

Lofty Math Problem Called Hilbert’s Sixth Closer to Being Solved

Can AI Let Us Chat with Dolphins?

Disaster Experts Are Missing Hurricane and Flood Meetings because of Trump Travel Restrictions

Neutrino Mass Mystery Shrinks with Latest KATRIN Results

Replacing Federal Workers with Chatbots Would Be a Dystopian Nightmare

Does Your Language’s Grammar Change How You Think?

Length of a Day on Uranus Revised, Pour Height Influences Coffee Quality, and Plastics Recycling Falls Short

This Butterfly’s Epic Migration Is Written into Its Chemistry

This Robot Copies Life—By Decomposing

HIV, Trans Health, and Covid Research Targeted by Trump Cuts to NIH

Crows Are Surprisingly Good at Geometry

JWST Spots Remains of Alien Planet That Fell into a Star

Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’

Three NASA Climate Satellites Are Dying. There’s No Plan to Replace Them

Getting Rid of FEMA Will Bankrupt Small Towns

What Is a Star?