How can I trust that my information will be safe? That’s the question I hear as a young Black doctor working in clinical research when I speak to Black African and Caribbean communities about joining genetic studies. You don’t have to search far to find mistrust – or the reasons for it. Take the infamous…
Axolotls are famous for their ability to regrow significant parts of their bodies. But according to recent research, these frilly-headed salamanders, which are native to lakes and wetlands around Mexico City, can perform an even more extraordinary biological feat: they can completely regrow their thymus, a complex organ instrumental to the immune system in most…
South Australia has built huge solar farms like this one in in Port Augusta Brook Mitchell/Getty Images As South Australia gets close to its goal of running purely on solar and wind energy, its electricity prices have dropped by a third in a year and are now the lowest in Australia. The state serves as…
February 14, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm AI just got its toughest math test yet. The results are mixed Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot By Joseph Howlett edited by Claire Cameron Interim Archives / Contributor…
In Vigil, a dying oil magnate is visited by ghosts liebre/Getty Images VigilGeorge Saunders, Bloomsbury In general, I am not a fan of novellas (or short novels). Just as I am sinking into them, they finish. However, while interesting people keep writing interesting-sounding works like these, I feel obliged to keep reading them, and this…
February 14, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm How often do people fall passionately in love? The answer may be less than you think A large survey of U.S. singles reveals the different ways people experience passionate romantic love By Allison Parshall edited by Tanya Lewis Anna Vereshchak/Getty Images On average, single…
Jessie Buckley as Agnes in Hamnet AGATA GRZYBOWSKA/2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC The film Hamnet, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, rightly emphasises the relationship between people and nature. We meet Agnes (Jessie Buckley, pictured above), Hamnet’s mother and wife of William Shakespeare, in the woods, asleep. She is said to be the daughter of a wood…
In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes. These all deserve deeper dives, but perhaps black holes deserve one most of all because, technically speaking, they do provide the deepest dive you…
We are far more likely to find love with someone we already know Thomas Hoepker/Magnum Bonded by EvolutionPaul Eastwick, Cornerstone Press Most of us can tell tales of lost loves and romantic rejections, and psychologist Paul Eastwick is no different. As an undergraduate at the end of the last millennium, Eastwick fell for a fellow…
Late on Tuesday night, the city of El Paso, Tex., learned that the airspace over El Paso International Airport had been closed as of 11:30 P.M. local time. The ban, initially posted as lasting 10 days, was then shortened to a matter of hours. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy later announced on X that the…
