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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Roman Gladiator Remains Show First Proof of Human-Animal Combat

1 day ago | scientificamerican.com | Gayoung Lee

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of such combat in the form of Roman gladiators’ remains. Most of what we know about the fights comes from indirect records, such as texts or illustrations that described the bloody, raucous events.
Treating High Blood Pressure Reduces Dementia Risk

3 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Liz Szabo

Treating high blood pressure for as little as four years can cut the risk of dementia by 15 percent, according to clinical a trial results published on Monday in Nature Medicine. In the investigation, intensive blood pressure reduction also lowered the risk of mild cognitive impairment, an early stage of memory loss in people who can still live independently, by 16 percent.
Quantum Randomness Could Create a Spoof-Proof Internet

3 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Gayoung Lee |Lee Billings

The allure of quantum computers is, at its heart, quite simple: by leveraging counterintuitive quantum effects, they could perform computational feats utterly impossible for any classical computer. But reality is more complex: to date, most claims of quantum “advantage”—an achievement by a quantum computer that a regular machine can’t match—have struggled to show they truly exceed classical capabilities.
NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other Vital Science

6 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Nadia Drake

Technicians at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are nearing the finish line on the space agency’s newest flagship astrophysics mission. Called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the eagerly awaited $3.5-billion observatory could solve the secrets of the dark universe, spot untold undiscovered worlds and light the way toward finding alien life.
Better Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Are Mandated for Europe’s Circular Economy

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | James Fernyhough

CLIMATEWIRE | BRUSSELS — Textiles, furniture, tires and mattresses will be subject to much stricter design standards to ensure they last longer, as the EU aims to stamp out wasteful consumption, the European Commission confirmed Wednesday. Steel and aluminum will also be included in the first wave of regulations under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), along with a range of electronic goods from mobile phones to fridges and washing machines.
Pedestrian Traffic Turns to Chaos at a Critical Angle, Mathematicians Find

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Gayoung Lee

Humans walking in crowds tend to form orderly lanes. It’s something we do “without even knowing [why],” says Iker Zuriguel, a physicist at the University of Navarra in Spain. But sometimes, such as in crosswalks during peak commuting times, that order turns to utter chaos. Mathematicians used physics models and gymnasium experiments to understand why and pinpointed a specific “critical angle” of the crowd’s movement—13 degrees—to explain why crowded pathways snarl to a standstill.
Rising Autism Rates Are Not an 'Epidemic'

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Stephanie Pappas

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, struck an alarmist tone about new findings that one in 31 eight-year-olds in the U.S. have an autism diagnosis at a press conference today. Kennedy called autism a “tragedy” that “destroys families.” And his statements also included assertations that autism experts say are out of date, such as the idea that autistic kids “regress” around their second birthday.
Shift from Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy Will Persist despite Trump Policies, New Analyses Say

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Benjamin Storrow |Brian Dabbs

CLIMATEWIRE | America’s energy transition will slow — but won’t stop entirely — if President Donald Trump is successful in repealing environmental regulations and slashing green subsidies, according to a pair of analyses released Tuesday. The annual energy outlooks from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and BloombergNEF offer a window to the country's potential energy future after Trump.
Alan Turing’s Lost Work Could Reveal How Tigers Got Their Stripes

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Manon Bischoff

Today mathematician Alan Turing is world-famous because he helped the Allies achieve victory against the Axis powers by deciphering an encryption that was considered unbreakable. That story inspired the 2014film The Imitation Game. Turing’s cryptographic work remained under wraps until the 1970s, however, so his incredible achievements only became known after his death. During his lifetime, Turing was known among certain experts.
The Dire Wolf Hoopla Hides the Real Story: How to Save Red Wolves

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Dan Vergano

Four cloned red wolves that fell out of the spotlight—hidden amid “de-extinction” hoopla about vanished dire wolves—tell the real secret to saving threatened species. And the answer isn’t a magical cloning technology. This month Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences announced the birth late last year of three gray wolf puppies with 15 gene variants that belonged to dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus); this large carnivore went extinct about 13,000 years ago.