Chloé Cooper Jones debuts as Orion’s new travel columnist.
Microbial diversity loss seen after a course of some commonly prescribed antibiotics can persist for years.
A compact device can produce a magnetic field that is more than 800,000 times stronger than Earth’s.
Compounds that are used to make plastics and personal-care products were found in all types of marine environment, a meta-analysis shows.
Muscle mass increased or remained stable relative to body weight in middle-aged mice and humans on GLP-1 drugs.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘A Galactic Mystery’ – Missing Dark Matter presents a Cosmic conundrum.
High in the Rockies, researchers are discovering that wind-borne pollution and rising heat are fueling unprecedented algal blooms by Cody Cottier
Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways by Melinda Wenner Moyer
Now Medical Studios, Jen Christiansen
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Bottleneck Recovery’ – Population expansion and genetic reshuffling in koalas…
Induced pluripotent stem cells could help treat diseased hearts and brains
Leaders acknowledge White House role in recent controversial moves
Proposed rule at National Institute of Standards and Technology would limit lab access to a few years
The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”
Field pennycress could become a valuable winter crop, with benefits for both carbon storage and farm profitability.
Engineered Escherichia coli could open the door to more sustainable routes to new drugs and other chemicals.
The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory.
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Gone Fishing’ – Social cues inform foraging.
Beneath the South Pole, two seismometers will probe the planet’s interior and monitor movement of Antarctic ice
After Maduro, Venezuelan researchers hope to rebuild the industry that supported the country’s scientific workforce
First-time posters to arXiv now need an endorsement from an established author
Effect could lead to MRI-like diagnostics and switchable, remote-controlled drugs
Doctor, writer, musician, and orator: Rudolph Fisher was a scientist and an artist whose métier was Harlem By Harriet A. Washington
The music of Jimi Hendrix continues to strike a chord By James McManus
When a filmmaker wanted to understand the war that changed his father, he decided to make a documentary By Thomas A. Bass
Two deaths nearly five decades apart and the hospital that felt like a nightmare By Natalie Angier
Symmetrical arrangements of botanical motifs indicate a grasp of spatial division long before the advent of formal written numbers.
A drop in precancerous growths in women who hadn’t received the jab suggests the existence of a ‘herd effect’ against the virus.
Better understanding of multi-year global weather cycles could help airlines to reduce fuel consumption and cost.
Particularly talented canines have sociolinguistic skills akin to those of young toddlers.
ORION MAGAZINE: The Winter 2026 Issue features the elusive cryptid—creatures that, despite mysterious sightings, dedicated societies, and extensive mythologizing, have not been scientifically proven to exist. Across the issue, writers grapple with questions of belief: Why do we want to believe in the things that we do? What might our enthusiastic focus on creatures like Bigfoot be preventing us from seeing, and protecting, in the real world? What do the stories we tell about the natural world really reveal about ourselves? Ranging from the playful to the impassioned, the fantastical to the deadly serious, Cryptids: On the Trail of Bigfoot and Other Improbable Beasts offers a tour through a menagerie both real and imagined. Inside:
Drugs that limit the activity of cells called neutrophils could make heart attacks less severe without compromising the immune system.
Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters.
What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.
A huge data set has confirmed a long-theorized relationship between the size of stock trades and the impact on prices.
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