Author: Scientific American

Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants

The rising moon looks huge on the horizon, but it’s all in your head

The next U.S. president will have to contend with regulations around AI—and the electorate is already facing AI-generated misinformation.

The Small Business Association has announced that loans to those affected by hurricanes and other disasters have been halted to wait for more money from Congress. But the House speaker says nothing will happen until after the presidential election

Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence

In a health care system that assumes older adults have family caregivers to help them, those facing dementia alone often fall through the cracks

In her book Wonder Drug, Jennifer Vanderbes explores the history of thalidomide’s secret history—and harms—in the U.S.

Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 million years, a new study suggests

Brain studies show that language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought