December 23, 2025 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm U.S. Approves Wegovy Weight-Loss Pill, a Move That Could Transform Health Care A pill version of the popular GLP-1 weight-loss drug Wegovy has been green-lit for use in the U.S. Here’s what that means for health care By Lauren J. Young edited by Claire…
Blatten in Switzerland was buried by a landslide in May 2025 ALEXANDRE AGRUSTI/AFP via Getty Images In May, the village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps was destroyed when a huge chunk of a glacier collapsed, but thanks to careful monitoring, almost all of its residents were saved. The first sign of an impending disaster…
The pathogen that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is notorious for its ability to develop drug resistance. But now there are two more treatment options. In December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved zoliflodacin and gepotidacin, oral medications that can treat gonorrhea infections of the urethra or cervix that have not spread elsewhere…
December 23, 2025 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm 10 Discoveries That Transformed How We Thought about Health in 2025 From advancements in male birth control to the science of supplements, Scientific American highlights some of the most fascinating health and medicine stories of 2025 By Lauren J. Young edited by Andrea Thompson…
FOTOGRAFIA INC./Getty Images Cut your sugar, get some exercise, stop smoking, eat your vegetables, take supplements, don’t stress, sleep well. Every day, we are bombarded with information about how to live longer, healthier, happier lives. But there is one crucial piece of health advice I bet you have never been given. It’s probably the most…
From eclipses on demand to a rare interstellar visitor to the chances of Earth being flung out of orbit, some news in 2025 made us ponder our place in the universe. Here’s a look at some of our favorite space stories. A rare interstellar visitor The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of interstellar comet…
December 23, 2025 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Spectacular Cosmic Collision Captured in New Hubble Image NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 light-years away By Claire Cameron edited by Jeanna Bryner NASA, ESA, Paul Kalas (UC Berkeley); Image…
When I usually examine lichens, I am in a forest, peering at frilly growths on tree branches with my hand lens. Or on exposed rocks high in the Alps, or old gravestones, or the rocky seashore, in the zone where the seaweed stops growing but before bigger land plants take over. I have been looking…
Europa has a vast, salty ocean covered by a thick shell of ice Claudio Caridi / Alamy Europa’s liquid ocean may be sealed off from the surface under a frozen sheet six times thicker than the deepest Antarctic ice, making it harder for any life there to be detected. Thanks to the abundance of liquid…
December 19, 2025 Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm The Protectors: Inside the Desperate Rush to Save an Orca Community As endangered southern resident killer whales fight for survival, federal funding cuts threaten the scientists working to save them. By Carin Leong & Kelso Harper edited by Jeffery DelViscio Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Sign…
