It is no secret that money shapes our health. From pharmaceutical ads to research agendas, money has always been part of medicine. What’s new is the scale, speed and intimacy of it all. A wave of new players is nudging our everyday health choices, often stepping into the cracks left by overstretched healthcare systems. And…
January 30, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Another Earth or a blip in the data? We may never find out An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed…
Tim Winton: “There may be places on our planet where the reality of our burning world can still be overlooked or evaded. Australia is not one of them.” Shutterstock / Vibe Images My grandparents were born at the end of the 19th century, in the era of the horse and cart. My mum and dad…
January 30, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Moltbot—what happens when AI stops chatting and starts doing This open-source agent installs software, makes calls and runs your digital life—redefining what “digital assistants” are supposed to do By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Eric Sullivan The Moltbot logo is seen displayed on a…
“On and on we go, hour after hour, over country as black as the night sky, across a fallen heaven starred with eruptions of white ash and smears of milky soot.” Tim Winton’s Juice Shutterstock / Denis Torkhov So I drive until first light and only stop when the plain turns black and there’s nothing…
January 30, 2026 1 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm 3,000-light-year-long jet offers new clues to first black hole ever imaged Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the supermassive black hole M87* By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron The…
Edward Jenner performing his first vaccination against smallpox in 1796 Ernest Board/Wellcome Collection/De Agostini via Getty Images A new look at one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in history, which rapidly eradicated smallpox in Copenhagen in the early 1800s, has uncovered possible lessons for boosting vaccine uptake in modern times. Smallpox was a devastating…
January 30, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA stresses ISS crew safety as it gears up for next astronaut launch After evacuating four astronauts from the ISS last month, NASA is looking ahead to its next crewed mission to the space station By Claire Cameron edited by Jeanna Bryner NASA is…
Mars is the location for two new science fiction novels out in February dottedhippo/iStockphoto/Getty Images Do you want to travel to Mars, to an alternate version of 1939 London or even to the very far future? If so, then February’s science fiction is for you, with all three flavours on offer from our authors. I’m…
January 29, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high Americans are living longer than ever but still well behind the life expectancy of other developed countries By Jeanna Bryner edited by Claire Cameron Amanda Montañez; Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (data) The latest death data…
