Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria J Marshall/Tribaleye Images / Alamy Drug-resistant gonorrhoea is on the rise worldwide, but a new antibiotic could buy us more time before the emergence of completely untreatable strains of the bacteria, which is known to potentially raise the risk of infertility. The sexually transmitted infection is estimated to affect more than 80…
December 11, 2025 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm U.S. Approves First Device to Treat Depression with Brain Stimulation at Home The FDA has approved a device that aims to treat depression by sending electric current into a part of the brain known to regulate mood By Claire Cameron edited by Tanya Lewis…
Disney’s famous Mickey Mouse character will soon be available for use in AI-generated videos Greg Balfour Evans / Alamy The world’s best-known AI company and the world’s best-known entertainment firm have come to a surprise agreement to allow AI versions of some of the most iconic characters in film, TV and cartoons to be used…
Early Earth got much of its water from relentless bombardment by water-rich asteroids and icy comets. Now, scientists say the young planet had a way to hold onto much more of that water than once thought: Rocks deep in Earth’s belly may have contained up to 100 times more water than previously estimated, researchers report…
December 11, 2025 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Measles Outbreaks Accelerate as U.S. Inches Closer to a Disease Tipping Point More than 1,900 people, mostly children, have been sickened by measles in the U.S. in 2025. The outbreaks are moving the country toward losing its measles-free status by early next year By…
A Pacific white-sided dolphin approaching a killer whale, as recorded from a camera worn by the killer whale University of British Columbia (A.Trites), Dalhousie University (S. Fortune), Hakai Institute (K. Holmes), Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (X. Cheng) Killer whales and dolphins have been working together to hunt salmon in the northern Pacific…
December 11, 2025 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm People Are Using TikTok to Sell Endangered Animals to Eat TikTok is rapidly growing in Africa and is being used to sell bushmeat, underscoring the role of social media in the global illegal wildlife trade By Sam Meadows edited by Andrea Thompson A pangolin…
We may have misunderstood the genetic basis of psychiatric conditions CNRI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY An analysis of gene variants in more than a million people diagnosed with neurodivergencies and mental health conditions – by far the largest study of its kind so far – has found that 14 conditions typically regarded as distinct actually fall into…
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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And in pictures it kind of looked like the diminutive robot in the Disney-Pixar film WALL-E—just much, much larger. On supporting science journalism If you’re enjoying this…
