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Scroll through TikTok and you’ll see binaural beats recommended for everything from stress, to sleep, to super-focus time.I get it. Every time I put this kind…

September 16, 20253 min readThe Problem with Billionaire ScienceScience may need to increasingly rely on wealthy patrons, but privately funded projects don’t always pan outBy David…

Science under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World Michael E. Mann & Peter J. Hotez PublicAffairs (2025)Months into President…

September 16, 20253 min readOctober 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years AgoCharming quarks; the first Batman signalBy Mark Fischetti 1975, Advent of Tomography:…

Frances Glessner Lee discovered her true calling later in life. An heiress without formal schooling, she was in her 50s when she transformed her fascination with…

New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, show eighth-graders’ science scores have fallen 4 points…

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, faced the Senate finance committee in a tense and combative hearing on Thursday, during which lawmakers questioned his…

Five years ago, investor Katelin Holloway made what she calls a “literal moon shot” investment. A founding partner of the generalist venture firm Seven Seven Six…

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on all things AI, follow Hayden Field. The…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina became one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the U.S. After…