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I have treated more than 200,000 patients in almost 40 years of practising medicine. Autism is a complex disorder which can present in many different ways…

September 16, 20254 min readContributors to Scientific American’s October 2025 IssueWriters, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the storiesBy Jen Schwartz Chris GunnThe Lives…

Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty,Melanie Stewart-Smith andVictoria FarncombeFame Under Fire podcastGetty ImagesEmmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, are planning to present photographic and scientific evidence to a US court…

August 30, 20255 min readTurn the Page on Summer: August’s Essential Book PicksCheck out this collection of nonfiction and fiction books recommended by Scientific AmericanBy Brianne…

If there is a beginning time point for the Age of Scientific Reversal, it may be 1887—the year when Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley…

August 19, 20254 min readContributors to Scientific American’s September 2025 IssueWriters, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the storiesBy Jen Schwartz David CheneyBrain WashingDavid…

In astronomy, 180 years is a very long time—maybe not for the goings-on in the universe but certainly for our understanding of it.When Scientific American published…

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei…

August 10, 20252 min readDid Disease Defeat Napoleon?Napoleon’s campaign against the Russian Empire was one of the most costly wars in history. Many soldiers died of…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Representative Eric Sorensen of Illinois spent 22 years forecasting the weather on television before winning his congressional…