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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.One way that we here at Scientific American stay on top of what’s…

HIGH TESTOSTERONEI’m grateful for the warnings threaded through Stephanie Pappas’s “The Truth about Testosterone” and would like to elaborate from personal experience. As a transgender man,…

Why aren’t more animals hermaphrodites? Snails and worms seem to have been successful using that method for sharing genes between any two individuals, but vertebrates evolved…

Letters to the editors for the June 2025 issue of Scientific American

(Program note: In order to reduce the competition for attention, this column’s Monday and Thursday schedule has been changed to Monday and Friday.) Monday’s post outlined…

The unveiling of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood – touted as the next Scarlett Johansson – was met with swift backlash in Hollywood. Here’s what Guardian readers…

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s tests your memory of books you may have read…

‘A dolphin among sharks’I met Bob in 1984 after he finished Out of Africa through a mutual friend in Malibu, and subsequently began to work for…

September 16, 20254 min readReaders Respond to the May 2025 IssueLetters to the editors for the May 2025 issue of Scientific AmericanBy Aaron Shattuck Scientific American,…

Must what goes up always come down? Sadia, via emailSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com.Readers replyI like Douglas Adams’ idea of flying: to throw yourself at the…