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Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are the 67 new…

December 1, 20252 min readWHO Sets GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drug GuidelinesNew WHO guidance calls for a worldwide obesity treatment “ecosystem” to ensure that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are…

The Max Planck Institutes in Germany house cutting-edge equipment, such as this ultra-high vacuum facility at The Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle. Credit:…

Some say the reason most manhole covers are round is that a circle cannot fall through a smaller circular hole. Which of these other two-dimensional shapes…

Core Scientific shareholders on Thursday voted down an all-stock acquisition offer from partner and competitor CoreWeave that was valued at the time at $9 billion.  …

According to astronomersthe universe is 14 billion years old,a fact that makes the long scrollof my life—its fine brushstrokes of autumn leaves, incliningover a mountain pool;…

October 14, 20254 min readContributors to Scientific American’s November 2025 IssueWriters, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the storiesBy Jen Schwartz Lori YoumshajekianSupplements That…

October 14, 20253 min readBeing Wrong Is a Scientific SuperpowerSnake oil, smuggling and a fundamental change in the way we understand lifeBy David M. Ewalt Scientific…

October 8, 20253 min readScience behind Record-Breaking Everest Blizzard That Trapped HundredsA blizzard that trapped hundreds of trekkers on Mount Everest was truly “off the charts,”…

President Donald Trump on Monday urged pregnant people to ‘tough it out’ and shun Tylenol over an unproven link to autism, while also calling for major…