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Letters to the editors for the May 2024 issue of Scientific American

Days spent in a desk chair can lead to heart disease or cancer. Getting up often and exercising more vigorously can stave off the ill effects

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories

This month’s issue covers the reasons it’s so hard to go back to the moon, the science of empathy and new advances in treating sickle cell disease

Illuminating the experience of people living with sickle cell could improve patients’ lives and enhance all of medicine

A biography of the scientist whose work led to fears of a ‘population bomb’

When different chickadee species meet, they sometimes choose each other as mates—with surprising results

Best baseball batting order; mummies demystified

Improving sickle cell care by expanding treatment options, advancing new therapies and amplifying the voices of people with the disease

A new generation of treatments addresses the trauma that often underlies addiction

In Pillars of Creation, Richard Panek gets up close to the JWST

Life expectancy for people with sickle cell in the U.S. has increased to about 50 years, but some people with the disease still face stigma and other barriers in health care