Scientific American

Autism researchers are working to counter a federal autism advisory panel that has vaccine skeptic members and, they say, a “striking absence of scientific expertise” spklr.io/6014EHL1p

Agnes Pockels achievements in surface science have long been overshadowed by a popular and likely untrue story that she became interested in the subject while doing the dishes spklr.io/6016EHIir

This science-fiction movie plays with quantum physics, space travel, astrobiology and mass-to-energy conversion spklr.io/6018EHI9q

Just how big can a star become? The answer depends on when in cosmic history you’re asking the question spklr.io/6016EHxSk

For years, ACIP has advised U.S. vaccine policy. But after changes to its members made by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. were challenged in court, the Trump administration is apparently changing tack spklr.io/6015EHQLJ

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds spklr.io/6010EHQ3C

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years spklr.io/6018EHQ62

Retatrutide is among a new class of weight loss drugs being tested for their effectiveness spklr.io/6017EHtSU

Gallup’s annual world happiness ranking for 2026 explores how the use of social media influences well-being spklr.io/6013EHtqd

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language preservation spklr.io/6015EHtz9

The conjecture—now known as Faltings’s Theorem—concerns the number of special points on a curve spklr.io/6013EHscf

Or When can mathematicians reverse engineer basketball tournament results from your friends’ brackets? spklr.io/6019EHsd1

The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A cataclysmic collision with another nearby galaxy may be the culprit spklr.io/6015EHsn1

A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy still holds for spaceflight’s future spklr.io/6019EHoXX

By plying its ground-penetrating radar in the depths of Mars’s Jezero Crater, this rover has found even older deltas buried beneath those seen on the surface from space spklr.io/6019EHonP

We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say spklr.io/6012EHor4

New satellite data come up dry as the search for lunar ice continues spklr.io/6012EHouo

The role of the thymus in our long-term immunity and health is poorly understood. A new study suggests we need to pay attention spklr.io/6015EHWFS

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible spklr.io/6016EHWUr

About 800,000 acres have burned because of these fires, with at least one person reported dead spklr.io/6012EHWoQ