EARTH
99 Percent Chance 2016 Will Be the Hottest Year on Record
The streak of record warm months continues, thanks to El Niño and global warming
Space
Mystery of Martian Methane Deepens
Climate
Genetically Engineered Crops Are Safe and Possibly Good for Climate Change
Mental Health
Magic Mushroom Drug Lifts Depression in Human Trial
Evolution
Evolution
Alliance of Bacterial Strains Disables Antibiotics
Evolution
Evolution
Visualizing the Mammals That Ate Dinosaurs
Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Repeated Sub-Concussion Head Impacts May Affect Eye Function
Policy & Ethics
Policy & Ethics
Pfizer Ban on Lethal Drug Sales Complicates Executions in 20 States
Environment
Environment
Gridlock over Italy's Olive Tree Deaths Starts to Ease
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Magic Mushroom Drug Lifts Depression in Human Trial
Psilocybin shows higher remission rate than SSRI drugs in U.K. study
Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
Underwater Archaeologists Find Ancient Butchering Site in Florida
Tools and bones add to evidence of pre-Clovis humans in America
It's Time to Retire Premed
The existing system of premedical education is broken, and needs to be fixed
Is Zika How Humanity Ends?
Probably not, but pathogens that damage brains may earn a special place in cosmic hell
Beyond Resveratrol: The Anti-Aging NAD Fad
Whenever I see my 10-year-old daughter brimming over with so much energy that she jumps up in the middle of supper to run around the table, I think to myself, “those young mitochondria.” Mitochondria are our cells’ energy dynamos.
Special Report
The Future of Medicine 2016
Medicine
Beyond chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, doctors are uncovering new ways to harness the power of the patient’s immune system to combat cancer
Editor's Picks
Neuroscience
What Neuroscience Says about Free Will
Sustainability
Electric Cars Are Not Necessarily Clean
Neurological Health
On the Brink of Breakthroughs in Diagnosing and Treating Autism
Policy & Ethics
Why Malthus Is Still Wrong
Videos
Visualizing the Mammals That Ate Dinosaurs
Artist James Gurney explains how he modeled and painted the extinct Volaticotherium featured on Scientific American’s June 2016 cover and inside the magazine. Central to his reconstruction was a model with anatomically accurate muscles built atop fossil bones.
