Author: Scientific American

Wegovy and similar weight-loss medications are becoming widely prescribed for teenagers with obesity, but little is known about their long-term effects

The Spanish brought peaches to the U.S., but Indigenous peoples spread the fruit across the eastern half of the U.S.

If you’ve ever seen faces in clouds, these heavenly entities will leave you haunted

An open body of water can be particularly eerie. It’s part of what led creator and author Geo Rutherford to make her viral videos on Spooky Lakes.

Damage from Hurricane Helene forced the only abortion clinic in western North Carolina to shutter, disrupting health care for pregnant people across a large region

Social wasps can hold their liquor

Apple experts divide time into “before Honeycrisp” and “after Honeycrisp,” and apples have never tasted so good

Her name was on the patent for tamoxifen, but Dora Richardson’s story was lost until now

In a new book, a long-time foreign correspondent examines the underappreciated links between climate change and violent conflict

Human echolocation repurposes parts of the brain’s visual cortex for sound, even in sighted people