- January 27, 2024
Puns, Pranks and Puerile Humor: Silly Stories about Serious Science
February 1, 2024 4 min read Seventy-one essays of science trivia, from duck penises to hangover myths By Amy Brady NONFICTION How to Win Friends
Climate Concern Grows Nationwide, Even in Some Republican States
CLIMATEWIRE | American voters are increasingly concerned about global warming, a new national public opinion analysis found, but that hasn’t changed the deeply partisan lens through
Pink Fairy Armadillos Have a Weird Double Skin Not Seen in Any Other Mammal
January 20, 2024 3 min read Pink fairy armadillos evolved a unique double skin millions of years ago as they moved underground in response to
Ocean Trawling May Release Locked-Away Carbon
CLIMATEWIRE | Dragging giant nets along the seafloor to catch fish — a practice known as bottom trawling — has long been criticized by environmentalists as
Preventing Child Abuse Should Not Be Controversial. My Own Hate Mail Reveals That It Is
In my senior year of college, I began my first job as a social worker, counseling victims of sexual assault. I began every morning determined
What’s Behind the ‘Arctic Blast’ Plunging into the U.S.?
January 12, 2024 3 min read This week’s cold snap across the U.S. will be one of “the most impressive Arctic outbreaks of this century,”
Wildfire Risk Maps Haven’t Kept Up with Wildfire Risks
CLIMATEWIRE | For years, Colorado’s wildfire risk map was so inaccurate that state officials all but ignored it. It was long outdated, especially in the state’s
How Networked Incitement Fueled the Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection
The shocking events of Jan. 6, 2021, signaled a major break from the nonviolent rallies that categorized most major protests over the past few decades.
The Surprising Health Benefits of Dog Ownership
Andrea Thompson: Ever since I was a kid, I wanted a dog. But it wasn’t until I was an adult–newly laid off and missing a
Readers Respond to the September 2023 Issue
January 1, 2024 4 min read Letters to the editors for the September 2023 issue of Scientific American Credit: Scientific American, September 2023 INTELLIGENCE PROBE In