Reports

The promise and challenges of new gene therapies for sickle cell disease

These medical rebels are changing the way healthcare is done around the world

What humans really evolved to eat, why some people can be heavy but healthy, and what revolutionary weight-loss drugs are teaching us about appetite, pleasure and the brain itself

There is a lot of parenting advice out there. Scientific American wants to wade through it and give you the most current, rigorous evidence to help you make the best decisions

Less than two years after the arrival of ChatGPT, people are using machine learning to decode ancient scrolls, study theological riddles and investigate intelligence itself

April 8, 2024’s total solar eclipse, visible from parts of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, is the last opportunity to see this phenomenon across North America until 2044

The U.S. is beginning an ambitious, controversial reinvention of its nuclear arsenal. The project comes with incalculable costs and unfathomable risks

Here are solutions to improve students’ emotional, physical, and mental health and to boost educational outcomes

Climate change is making wildfires more likely and more intense, exposing more people to dangerous wildfire smoke. Scientists are continuing to learn how much damage that smoke can do to the environment and human health

Summer heat is increasingly breaking records as the climate warms. As we describe in our roundup, heat can be deadly. Make sure that you take extra precautions to stay cool

Spacecraft will explore hidden oceans and the possibility of life on the moons of Jupiter

Honoring women at the forefront of science