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In the death throes of Boris Johnson’s government in the summer of 2022, Nadhim Zahawi was appointed chancellor by an increasingly desperate prime minister determined to…

On a cold morning in December 2024, florist Madeline King was on a buying trip to her local wholesaler when a wave of dizziness nearly knocked…

Updated at 12:00 p.m. ET on January 3, 2026The Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime lasted 12 years before America ended it today. This seems to be…

A group of progressive politicians and advocates are reframing emissions-cutting measures as a form of economic populism as the Trump administration derides climate policy as a…

It’s two days before Thanksgiving and Hillary Cohen and Samantha Luu are trying to figure out how they’re going to cook 120 turkeys with limited oven…

The entire women’s soccer audience is keeping an eye on the free agency race for Trinity Rodman. As 2025 comes to a close, a new wrinkle…

December 10, 20253 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAncient Humans Were Making Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Scientists RealizedMaking fire on demand was a milestone…

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is the biggest shake-up to federal higher education policy in more than a decade. And while the bill passed on…

Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us Julia Belluz & Kevin Hall Avery (2025)In 2019, Kevin Hall, a physicist turned nutrition…

Chapter 4“It Was All About Being the Only Hospital”Moore didn’t stay long in Albany. He knew the fight to overcome the competition from Palmyra would always…