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Parts of the East Coast from Maryland up through southeastern New England are set to experience blizzard conditions with a winter bomb cyclone Sunday night into…

In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out…

One year ago this week, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm vaccine opponent, environmental lawyer and politician Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as head of the $1.7…

The future of the American west hangs in balance this week, as seven states remained at a stalemate over who should bear the brunt of the…

February 11, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmThis ancient South American kingdom ran on bird poopMaize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.The French philosopher and scientist René Descartes famously wrote, “I think, therefore I…

An impressively brilliant African American 14-year-old sent a thoughtful response to the column I published yesterday on the policing of Black men in America. He began…

Content creators and influencers in the US are now increasingly dominating requests for O-1 work visas. Astoundingly, the number of O-1 visas granted each year increased…

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…