Archives: Scientific American
Quantum Astronomy Could Create Telescopes Hundreds of Kilometers Wide
Astronomers hope to use innovations from the subatomic world to construct breathtakingly large arrays of optical observatories
How a Carnivorous Mushroom Poisons Its Prey
Scientists have known for decades that oyster mushrooms feasted on roundworms—and they’ve finally figured out how their toxins work
Is the Standard Model of Physics Now Broken?
The discrepancy between the theoretical prediction and the experimentally determined value of the muon’s magnetic moment has become slightly stronger with a new result from Fermilab. But what does it mean?
Forgotten Memories of Traumatic Events Get Some Backing from Brain-Imaging Studies
A new wave of research seeks neurological signatures for a type of amnesia
The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands
Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the U.S. and increasingly around the world
Guardians of the Microbial Galaxy
Culture collections of bacteria play an unheralded but crucial role in science
Pilot Whales Show Possible Orca-Mimicking Repertoire
Southern long-finned pilot whales’ calls could help them outsmart an apex predator
This Sea Slug Can Chop Off Its Head and Grow an Entire New Body—Twice
It is one of the “most extreme” examples of regeneration ever seen
100-Million-Year-Old Seafloor Sediment Bacteria Have Been Resuscitated
The evidence mounts that bacteria can be effectively immortal
AI System Can Sniff Out Disease as Well as Dogs Do
Researchers are training algorithms to emulate trained dogs’ ability to detect cancer and other diseases, perhaps including COVID-19