Love in the brain, how dreams predict disease and better words for climate change in this month’s issue of Scientific American

An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us

New research findings, combined with philosophy, suggest free will is real but may not operate in the ways people expect

Scientists working for the oil giant Exxon in the 1970s and 1980s estimated temperature increases with remarkable accuracy. Those findings could now be used as evidence in climate litigation

Scientists and manufacturers are charting a path toward material sustainability

A new technology could wipe out whole species. Is it a magic bullet or a genetic atom bomb?

Scientists cannot always differentiate between research abstracts generated by the AI ChatGPT and those written by humans

Scientists have long known that ancient people living in Siberia made their way into what is now North America. Mounting DNA evidence suggests migration also happened in the opposite direction

A rare flower encased in amber is the largest one ever found and dates from around 40 million years ago

The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters

In the first Lost Women of Science Shorts podcast, host Katie Hafner dives into the life and work of Leona Zacharias—a brilliant researcher who, before reporting this story, Hafner only knew as her grandmother

Racism and overstressed teachers help explain high expulsion rates for Black preschool boys

Clues to the origin of this enormous cloud of gas have been maddeningly vague

California has been hit by repeated storms fueled by torrents of moisture called atmospheric rivers that will only intensify in a warming climate

A newly discovered interaction related to quantum entanglement between dissimilar particles opens a new window into the nuclei of atoms