SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (April 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mind Stretching Shapes’ – The loops, knots and structures pushing the boundaries of math…
Rachel Crowell, Violet Frances
Hannah Nordhaus
HARVARD MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Falling Behind’ – Boys, men, and the new gender gaps…
What to do as men and boys fall behind by Nina Pasquini
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge by Joyce E. Chaplin
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970 by Daniel Stone
SCIENCE MAGAZINE (April 3, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Sounds Like Imaging’ – Thin sound sheets visualize living opaque organs…
Multiple companies aim to build pilot plants using twisted magnets
Skeletons from an ancient, lush interlude offer genetic peek at a lost population
Study is the first to show an animal combining different calls to make new meanings
NATURE MAGAZINE (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Double Impact’ – Whole genome duplication drives multicellular adaptation over 5,000 generations in the lab…
A well-timed atmospheric river dropped enough snow on Greenland for its ice sheet to lose 8% less mass than expected.
The paralysing toxin deployed by the male blue-lined octopus might help to protect him from being eaten.
The drop in body temperature that occurs during a torpid state is linked to molecular markers of longer life in mice.
Prosthetic appendage uses three layers of touch sensors to accurately differentiate between textures.
THE NEW ATLANTIS (March 18, 2025): The Spring 2025 issue features How the water system works, how virologists lost the gain-of-function debate, living well with AI, a physics that cares, and more…
For years, scientists kept the debate about risky virus research among themselves. Then Covid happened. As President Trump prepares to crack down on virology research, the expert community must face up to its own failures.
From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.
Between SpaceX’s breakthroughs and Trump’s inaugural promise, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity. But it can’t be realized as an eccentric’s project or a pork banquet. Here’s a science-driven program that could get astronauts on the Red Planet by 2031.
Fetal and infant brains offer clues to when human experience begins
Floods threaten to spread sediments laden with toxicants
In trio of studies, scientists explore life in the mysterious hadal zone
Some termination letters cite “biological realities” to dismiss usefulness of such research
At least 1.1 million years old, a fossil face suggests more than one type of early human inhabited Europe
NATURE MAGAZINE (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Good Or Bad?’ – Simple two-point rating system curbs racial bias in the gig economy.
The presence of a pattern called a sleep spindle helps to predict which people will recover from an unresponsive state.
A network of two polymers plus sulfuric acid allows a hydrogel to keep its elasticity and softness at extreme temperatures.
Clay figurines found on top of the remnants of a pyramid in what is now El Salvador might have been used in public ceremonies.
Analysis of satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin and New Guinea helps to show that ‘secondary’ roads take an outsized toll.
THE SCIENTIST MAGAZINE (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Peto’s Paradox’ – How gigantic species evolved to beat cancer…
Scientists dive into the genomes of whales, elephants, and other animal giants looking for new weapons in the fight against cancer.
Every DNA fragment tells a story. Forensic experts use these genetic breadcrumbs to solve old mysteries and modern crimes.
Younger individuals are developing colorectal cancer earlier in life compared to older generations, and scientists don’t know why.
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR (March 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Tiger, Tiger’ – Searching for the elusive big cat means learning to see the world anew…
At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind By Elizabeth Kadetsky
The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks By Jessie Wilde
Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present By Charles G. Salas
NATURE MAGAZINE (March 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Fungal Waves’ – How mycorrhizal fungi build supply-chain networks for underground nutrient exchange…
Granite from the chunk of Earth’s crust called the Lhasa terrane did not come from India, as had previously been thought, but from much further afield.
The James Webb Space Telescope uncovered repeated flares from the supermassive object called Sagittarius A*.
The standard protective dose is almost 14,000 units, but even 500 units raises antibody levels sufficiently to do the job.
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