A winter bomb cyclone is expected to bring blizzard conditions across parts of the East Coast from Maryland up through southeastern New England Sunday night into Monday morning. But what, exactly, is a blizzard? A blizzard doesn’t always mean “a lot of snow,” though it can certainly bring heavy snowfalls, as this storm is expected…
February 18, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm This fossilized vomit is older than the dinosaurs Vomit is gross—but 290-million-year-old vomit is a scientific marvel By Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea Thompson An artist’s rendering of Dimetrodon teutonis vomiting; two of the smaller reptilian animals found in the regurgitalite are depicted in…
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Your home is a death trap. It is a place where, if you’re not careful, your furniture can topple and crush you. You can burn yourself on the stove, choke on a meal, slip in the shower or drown in the…
February 21, 2026 5 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Italy promised durable Olympic medals. Science had other plans. A small design flaw in the medals for the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina turned a durability promise into a very public stress test By Eric Sullivan edited by Andrea Thompson Italy’s state mint…
In June 2025, a year-long investigation exposed an illegal trade smuggling timber from protected areas in the Congolese rainforest into neighbouring Burundi. Award-winning Burundian journalist Arthur Bizimana and his collaborator Martin Leku, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, risked their safety by travelling deep into the rainforest — the world’s second-largest — to gather…
February 18, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Scientists may have just solved one of the strangest mysteries of Greenland’s ice sheet Below the surface, Greenland’s ice appears to be churning up, a process one scientist described as akin to a “boiling pot of pasta” By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire…
People who order low-cost versions of the wildly popular weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound from so-called compounding pharmacies might soon see disruptions in their medication. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently announced plans to crack down on the active pharmaceutical ingredients used in glucagonlike peptide 1 (GLP-1) drugs produced at compounding pharmacies, which make…
February 19, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm A pair of gut bacteria may cause constipation A new study pinpoints two species of bacteria that work together to dry out the lining of the gut and cause constipation By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron Kirn Vintage Stock/Corbis via Getty Images…
February 19, 2026 1 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm China is reportedly testing a new airborne wind turbine This gravity-defying machine appears to work much like a ground-based wind turbine—but in the air By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron Wind turbines in the city of Yancheng in the Chinese province of…
February 19, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Cats’ cancer genes show striking similarity to humans’ Researchers sequenced the genomes of tumors from almost 500 domestic cats and found remarkable parallels with human and dog cancers By K. R. Callaway edited by Claire Cameron Targeted treatments for cats with cancer might be…
