Scientific American

A national shortage in mental health clinicians existed before COVID-19. Now, health care organizations must decide how to rapidly scale ...

Climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic have featured heavily in this presidential campaign and are without question two of the ...

[A] new study suggests that there could be another key reason to get a flu jab this year: it might reduce ...

Smell loss is so common in people with [COVID-19] that some researchers have recommended its use as a diagnostic test because it ...

Do you get really stimulated by new ideas and imaginative scenarios? If so, you may have an influx of dopamine ...

A team from IBM and Pfizer says it has trained AI models to spot early signs of [Alzheimer’s, a] notoriously stealthy ...

Because concrete is porous and absorbs liquid, [temperature] changes often make its surface flake and peel. But researchers say a ...

The rise in hobby beekeeping, now a trendy activity for hundreds of thousands of Americans, followed strong awareness campaigns to “save the bees.” ...

On the whole, the research shows, conservatives desire security, predictability and authority more than liberals do, and liberals are more ...

Today, although most Americans trust information from physicians and medical scientists, public trust in the scientific community has become increasingly partisan, and conservatives and ...

Some have tried to identify ways in which we can discern if we are simulated beings. Others have attempted to ...

In the book [Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America], which ...

Even though vaccines have virtually eliminated the risk of many preventable diseases, there has been an increase in refusal and ...

Psychotherapy assisted by psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in “magic mushrooms,” seems to be remarkably effective in treating a wide range ...

[V]accines mimic a natural immune response, to the effect of developing long-term and in some cases lifelong immunity to reinfection ...

We live day and night inside the same walls. We fear touching groceries that arrive at our doorstep. If we ...

In the 2016 election, undecided voters were influenced by the brain’s fear-driven impulses—more simply, gut instinct—once they arrived inside the ...

So, is CBD a miracle cure? Despite its promise, if you’re someone who hopes to read that science proves CBD ...

Reading is a learned skill; no one is born reading. But learning to read relies on inborn human capacities for ...

As humans grapple with pandemic-induced isolation, science is starting to offer insight into what may be happening in our brains when ...

American teachers have not always been afforded the luxury of teaching evolution forthrightly. John Thomas Scopes, for example, was famously ...

Who wouldn’t want a better memory? After all, our recollections are fragile and can be impaired by diseases, injuries, mental ...

We lie when we think we can get away with it. We lie more in groups, especially if we see other ...

Darwin made astute observations about our kind and predictions about our ancient past based on the information that was available ...

IF comes in three main flavors: alternate-day fasting, when people alternate between feast days (eating normally or a little extra) and ...

Borrowing from decades of experience in producing snake antivenoms, scientists, veterinarians and technicians at a scientific and technical institute in ...

The rate of suicide—the second leading cause of death in the U.S. among people ages 10 to 34 and the ...

Wearable sensor technology, which helps doctors check a variety of health indicators, has in recent years advanced from bulky devices ...