February 25, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Heart disease in young women projected to rise sharply by 2050 A new projection study estimates that nearly a third of women aged 22 to 44 will have been diagnosed with a cardiovascular disease by 2050 By Lauren J. Young edited by Claire Cameron…
It’s time to rethink our relationship with AI Flavio Coelho/Getty Images It is undeniable that the launch of ChatGPT was a historically significant event, but is that because it was the first glorious step towards a superintelligent future or because it was the start of a world filled with AI snake-oil salespeople? I’ve long thought…
February 25, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Economist Larry Summers resigns from posts at Harvard after ties to Epstein spark scrutiny Former Harvard president Larry Summers will step back from his teaching and faculty positions at the end of the academic year By Claire Cameron edited by Clara Moskowitz David Paul…
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, with the giant planet behind it in a view from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy The story of Saturn, its rings and moons, may have started with its largest moon, Titan. A collision between an early proto-Titan and a smaller object about 400 million years ago could have set into…
Think about your breakfast this morning. Can you imagine the pattern on your coffee mug? The sheen of the jam on your half-eaten toast? Most of us can call up such pictures in our minds. We can visualize the past and summon images of the future. But for an estimated 4% of people, this mental…
TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images Mas Subramanian accompanies his wife, Rajeevi, to art museums all over the world. But, until fairly recently, he rarely lingered over the paintings. While she could spend hours with Monets and Picassos, he was content to pass the time with a book instead. “You go and see everything,” he…
Tiny, repeating detachments between sole and floor — thousands of times a second — create the distinctive squeak heard on the court, data show.
February 25, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Trump’s State of the Union speech made no mention of Make America Healthy Again On Tuesday the U.S. president largely steered clear of his administration’s health care agenda amid a broader push to downplay antivaccine efforts ahead of upcoming midterm elections By Tanya Lewis…
Reconstruction of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis Gabriel Díaz Yantén, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. An almost-complete skeleton of a dinosaur that weighed less than a small chicken has provided new insights into the evolution of alvarezsaurs, which are among the smallest dinosaurs that ever lived. The 95-million-year-old fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis was found at the La Buitrera…
For the first time, scientists have directly observed metal pollutants leaching from a piece of orbital junk: a SpaceX rocket as it burned in the atmosphere. Such pollutants can damage the ozone layer, meaning the findings will help monitor potential harms from space debris, researchers report February 19 in Communications Earth and Environment. While humans…
