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There’s no easier way to explore far-off planets or find your one true love than by reading a great book. Scientific American’s staffers may spend their…

Discovering nonfiction that reads like a story but keeps the scholarship front and center is the great white whale hunt for bookish adventurers. Countless authors attempt…

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…

Frozen dinners were useful when no one was home to cook. A fancy cheese or apple roll felt like a family treat. But not any more.…

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…

Researchers warn that U.S. data centers could devour vast amounts of energy and water unless stronger guardrails shape the industry’s growth.When Cornell University systems engineer Fengqi…

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health and human services (HHS) secretary, is planning to issue guidance encouraging Americans to eat more saturated fats, contradicting decades of…

Two decades ago, Sara Carlson, then a mother of three, was newly single because of a traumatic event, and the US’s food stamp program, now called…

As a mother of two, Paige Harris has noticed a change in the way she shops for her family.“Items that I have bought regularly have gone…

Nine months after Donald Trump took office, promising to reduce prices on “day one”, a clear majority of Americans say their monthly costs have risen by…