Here’s what Moderna’s latest mRNA cancer vaccine data actually show
The Moderna-Merck mRNA cancer vaccine helps prevent cancer recurrence and death, the new results show
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RFK, Jr., adviser Calley Means announces his resignation from the Trump administration
Means’s views on the COVID vaccine, raw milk and fluoride have all been criticized by health care professionals
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This implant burns up excess blood sugar with electricity
A new USB-sized device, tested in mice, could help people with type 2 diabetes better manage glucose levels
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Data centers are a target of modern warfare. How do we secure the infrastructure that runs our digital lives?
Attacks against data centers in Europe and the Middle East are raising questions as to how we protect the…
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The inside story behind OpenAI’s million-dollar math proof
AI’s solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the details of how it happened, preview a chaotic future for math—and…
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Astronomers unlock a mystery hidden in van Gogh’s The Starry Night
A misidentified constellation could revise the timeline for Vincent van Gogh’s creation of his iconic painting
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New superconducting chip aims to help tame fusion plasma
Researchers fed fusion data to a new chip to see whether it could spot signs that superhot plasma is about to go haywire
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Ancient Egypt’s first female king revealed by long-lost royal seals
Ancient Egypt’s first female ruler lived centuries before Nefertiti or Cleopatra
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National Science Foundation leader Brian Stone to retire with no clear replacement in sight
President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Stone, James O’Neill, has yet to have a confirmation hearing in the Senate,…
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Super Typhoon Champi sets the record for strongest storm of 2026
The cyclone’s winds hit 185 miles per hour—the strongest windspeed of any storm this year
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Report pinpoints future exploration sites on the moon
Besides building crewed outposts at the lunar south pole, where else should astronauts go on the moon? An authoritative…
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Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
For the first time, scientists can make quantum measurements on a positron particle
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A Wall Is Also a Road explores alien consciousness, slime mold life-forms and Pompeii
Slime mold aliens explore Pompeii—and humanity—in a new book by Annalee Newitz
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Republican congressional candidate Tom Stalcup on how both parties abuse science for political gain
Scientific American spoke to the candidate for Massachusetts’s fourth congressional district about climate change,…
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See the Orionids meteor shower at its peak this week
The shower’s shooting stars originate from Halley’s Comet
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Christina Applegate says she was misdiagnosed with MS—how could that happen?
The Emmy Award–winning actress revealed that a multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2021 was incorrect. It’s a surprisingly…
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The mathematical impossibility of making a perfect world map
Mapping a sphere onto a flat plane is mathematically impossible. But a better world map than the Mercator projection is
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Scientists left in the dark by National Science Foundation grant application delays
The Major Research Instrumentation program offers grants of up to $4 million to scientists buying or developing…
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Green stars do exist—and others shine pink or purple, too
The colors of dead stars come in a surprising rainbow of choices
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The Selfish Gene at 50
A half century ago The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins became an instant bestseller and transformed public awareness of…
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Inside the bold, quixotic quest to store planet-warming carbon in the ocean
These start-ups are trying to suck CO2 from the air and stash in the sea. Is it working?
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Why we probably live in a quantum multiverse
The once-fringe quantum Many Worlds theory now seems much more likely
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The provocative new theory that could explain aging and disease
Could disruptions in the flow of energy through mitochondria cause everything from type 2 diabetes to Alzheimer’s?
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Our love-hate relationship with social media
Regardless of whether social media addiction is real, these platforms hack the human brain, often to our detriment
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How a fusion start-up could help maintain the U.S. nuclear arsenal
The U.S. hasn’t detonated a nuclear weapon since 1992. Now a fusion start-up whose co-founders include former national…
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Why data centers are reviving solid-state transformers
Solid-state transformer designs have been around for decades. Now data centers may finally give the chip-filled devices…
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How your brain learns to cope with uncertainty
Can our “prediction machine” brains learn to handle a world in chaos?
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November 2026: Science history from 50, 100 and 150 years ago
In 1926 we wrote about how there was a good chance Mars had both plants and animals. And in 1876 we probed the…
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A graphic explainer of uranium enrichment
Inside the process of isolating uranium-235
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We’re addicted to social media. How do we get sober?
How doctors, scientists and “anonymous” programs are working to free people from their phones
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These extreme cosmic explosions are breaking physics
Astronomers are finally figuring out what powers mysterious gamma-ray bursts
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Play this crossword inspired by the November 2026 issue of Scientific American
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What actually makes ultraprocessed foods unhealthy?
Scientists can’t figure out why ultraprocessed foods are unhealthy for us—and new studies suggest that the “processing”…
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Readers respond to the June 2026 issue
Letters to the editors for the June 2026 issue of Scientific American
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