Michael Pollan sets out to explore the mysteries of consciousness in his new book, A World Appears ADDICTIVE STOCK CREATIVES / Alam What is consciousness? It is one of the most perplexing questions in science. You would expect our intimacy with it to give us a leg up in understanding how it works, but this…
March 3, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Help yourself to stronger immunity Supplements, surprising treatments, immunity-boosting vaccines and even exercises can help the immune system do its job By Josh Fischman You contain multitudes. Within you there are billions of defenders, ready to protect your health from threats arising both outside…
Want a good night’s sleep tonight? Pile your plate with plenty of fibre and plants Olga Pankova/Getty Images Eating more fibre may help you sleep more deeply, while consuming a wider variety of fruits, vegetables and nuts could help you nod off faster. That’s according to the most comprehensive look yet at how what we…
March 2, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Face of ancient human ancestor ‘Little Foot’ reconstructed for the first time “Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ancient hominins looked like By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by…
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March 2, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Ring the Fish Doorbell to help migrating fish navigate a Dutch canal A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell By K. R. Callaway edited by…
Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University)/LIGO Space-time is being driven apart. Every second that passes, the universe expands faster and faster. What is propelling this dramatic acceleration is an enigma, though – one scientists have known about, and searched for, for decades. Still, we are no closer to…
March 2, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Here are the flu strains health officials predict could hit hard next season The WHO has warned countries in the Northern Hemisphere to be prepared to fight influenza viruses that fall under the subtypes H1N1 and H3N2 and the lineage B/Victoria in the next…
If you imagine the story of the universe as a film endlessly in post-production, cosmologists would be its obsessive editors, constantly tweaking the narrative. The version they are working with is an astonishing cinematic achievement: it starts with a bang, space-time erupting out of nothing, before unfurling majestically with the formation of stars and then…
The percentage of U.S. high school students who aren’t getting enough shut-eye is climbing. U.S. medical societies recommend that teens sleep eight to 10 hours each night. But in 2023, 77 percent of high school students reported slumbering fewer hours than that, up from 69 percent of those surveyed in 2007. The overall rise was…
