Author: Scientific American

Intense health anxiety is a true mental illness and threatens lives. The good news is that it’s treatable

Changing the ocean’s chemical and biological makeup could force it to pull vast amounts of planet-warming carbon from the atmosphere. But is that a line we want to cross?

U.N. statistics show progress toward the goal of gender equality but a long way left to go

Science in meter and verse

The fossil-fuel industry argues that we can’t live without its deadly products. It is wrong

Oak trees have genetic flexibility that allows them to solve ecological problems. But even they will need our help to survive climate change

Archaeological and genetic discoveries topple long-standing ideas about the domestication of equines

The far side of the moon offers grounds for compromise between advocates and opponents of lunar development

Alcohol in space; basking in the limelight

The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons we can’t explain