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This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.Exactly 39 years after Julia Ward Howe’s…

Updated at 10:01 p.m. ET on January 3, 2026Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been forcibly taken from Venezuela and are being moved to…

December 26, 20253 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm12 of the Best Interviews Scientific American Did in 2025—on AI, Headaches, and MoreFrom an interview with…

The United States has imposed visa bans on five Europeans, including a former European Union commissioner, accusing them of pressuring tech firms to censor and suppress…

When Czech writer Karel Čapek coined the word “robot” in his 1920 play R.U.R., he imagined tireless “artificial workers” liberating people from drudgery. The lead character…

Rod Paige, an educator, coach, and administrator who rolled out the nation’s landmark No Child Left Behind law as the first African American to serve as…

December 7, 20253 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmDeath by Fermented FoodSome fermenting foods can carry the risk of a bacterium that produces an extremely…

Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are the 67 new…

Battles over what children should learn in history classes, a fixture of American education debates over the past five years, are once again heating up as…

As a child growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in the 1970s and 80s, Sean Sherman, an Oglala Lakota member and a…