Scientific American

Scientific American, often referred to as SciAm, is a well-known American magazine that focuses on popular science. For over 170 years, it has provided monthly insights into scientific topics for an educated audience, ensuring the writing is clear and accompanied by high-quality color graphics. Renowned scientists, such as Albert Einstein, have written articles for this magazine. It is recognized as the oldest magazine in the U.S. that has been published continuously on a monthly basis.

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What Will Happen to Opioid and Drug Overdose Deaths after CDC Cuts?

1 day ago | scientificamerican.com | Lois Parshley

At an addiction conference in Nashville, Tenn., in late April, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., spoke about his own experience with drug use. “Addiction is a source of misery. It’s also a symptom of misery,” he said. Kennedy’s very personal speech, however, ignored recent federal budget cuts and staffing reductions that could undo national drug programs’ recent progress in reversing overdoses and treating substance use.
Proposed Federal Budget Would Devastate U.S. Space Science

2 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Nadia Drake

Late last week the Trump Administration released its detailed budget request for fiscal year 2026 —a request that, if enacted, would be the equivalent of carpet-bombing the national scientific enterprise. “This is a profound, generational threat to scientific leadership in the United States,” says Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at the Planetary Society, a science advocacy group.
Heat Safety Experts behind OSHA Rules Were Laid Off, which Could Make It Easier to Scrap Regulations

3 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Ariel Wittenberg

CLIMATEWIRE | When federal regulators were crafting a first-ever proposal to protect workers from extreme heat, they relied on government health experts who had been working on the deadly effects of high temperatures for years. Now that entire team is gone due to President Donald Trump's personnel purges.
Bizarre Quantum Universe

3 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

In 2022 three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving something astonishing: the universe is not locally real. In other words, particles don’t have fixed properties until they are measured.
The World Isn't Ready for the Mental Health Toll of Extreme Heat

4 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Madhusree Mukerjee

The coming summer is forecast to be a scorcher across the U.S. And climate scientists predict that at least one of the next five years will beat 2024 as the hottest year ever recorded globally. As heat waves are getting more intense and prolonged, their effect on the mind and body are also becoming more dire. Children and older people, as well as those who work outdoors, are most at risk. So are those with mental health disorders.
Sahara Dust Clouds Are Heading to Florida and Beyond

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Meghan Bartels

Clouds of dust drifting from the Sahara Desert over the Atlantic Ocean could make for unusual-looking sunrises and sunsets, as well as potentially drier weather, over Florida and parts of the southeastern U.S. in the coming days. What’s HappeningBetween late spring and early fall, dust from the Saharan gets blown out over the Atlantic Ocean every three to five days.
Lawmakers Form First Extreme Heat Caucus, Citing ‘Deadly Risk’

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Ariel Wittenberg

CLIMATEWIRE | An Arizona Democrat and a New York Republican are teaming up to form the Congressional Extreme Heat Caucus in an attempt to find bipartisan solutions for deadly temperatures. “We hope this caucus can make sure the United States is better prepared for the inevitable increase in temperatures, not just in Arizona and the Southwest but all across the country,” Arizona Rep. Greg Stanton (D) said in an interview. He's creating the caucus with New York Rep.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX City Starbase Faces Opposition from Its Texas Neighbors

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Paola Rosa-Aquino

Before SpaceX’s Starship lost control and exploded over the Indian Ocean during its ninth test flight, the 400-foot-tall megarocket blasted off from Texas’s newest city. Starbase, situated on 1.5 square miles of the Lone Star State’s southernmost tip in the Rio Grande Valley, is mostly made up of SpaceX employees living on company-owned property and abuts a habitat for endangered wildlife, as well as a public beach.
Why Do We Launch Space Telescopes?

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Phil Plait

On April 24, 1990, NASA and the European Space Agency launched an astronomical revolution. When the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into the sky on that day, it carried the Hubble Space Telescope in its payload bay, and the astronauts aboard deployed it into low-Earth orbit soon thereafter.
Heat Is Killing Oil Workers. The Industry Is Trying to Kill a Rule That Would Protect Them

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Ariel Wittenberg

CLIMATEWIRE | The oil and gas industry is pushing the Trump administration to kill a proposed rule that would protect workers from extreme heat, arguing that it jeopardizes the president’s vision of achieving “energy dominance.”The opposition comes as people who work in U.S. oil and gas fields face increasingly dangerous conditions as global temperatures swell with rising levels of climate pollution. The industry is among the nation’s leading workplaces for heat-related deaths and injuries.