Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
DA dives deeper into the lack of selections into this years Baseball Hall of Fame.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Renowned political science professor Carol Swain started out life with every possible disadvantage. She ended up teaching at two of the most prestigious universities in the country. How did she do it? She shares her story and her wisdom in this inspiring video.
The prospect of death by giant hornet has pushed some Asian honey bees to resort to a poop-based defense system-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Researchers help farmers in Namibia avoid costly cattle losses by tracking big cat hangouts-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Linguist Ben Zimmer says the pandemic has turned us all into amateur epidemiologists, utilizing terms like "superspreader" and "asymptomatic." Christopher Intagliata reports.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one from Panama about the toll lightning takes on tropical trees.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti talks about how this election will affect environmental science and policy.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Scientific American associate editor for sustainability, Andrea Thompson, talks about how climate science and policy will be affected by this election.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Scientific American's editor-in-chief sets up this week's series of podcasts about how this election could affect science, technology and medicine.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
More than 40 of the birds, in coalitions of three or four, may fight for days over oak trees in which to store their acorns.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
More than 40 of the birds, in coalitions of three or four, may fight for days over oak trees in which to store their acorns.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The volatile compounds released by microbial communities on cheese rinds shape and shift a cheese's microbiome. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The mass-extinction asteroid happened to strike an area where the rock contained a lot of organic matter and sent soot into the stratosphere, where it could block sunlight for years.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Planners returned water to Arizona's Santa Cruz River's dry bed in 2019, and various species began showing up the same day.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Researchers say three ancient leather balls, dug up from the tombs of horsemen in northwestern China, are the oldest such specimens from Europe or Asia. Christopher Intagliata reports.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
From mammals to mollusks, animals living among humans lose their anti-predator behaviors.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The ancestors of today’s dogs already exhibited some playfulness, which became a key trait during domestication.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A stretch of Neandertal DNA has been associated with some cases of severe COVID-19, but it’s unclear how much of a risk it poses. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Blue whales off the California coast sing at night until it's time to start migrating when they switch to daytime song.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com