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This episode was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors.Michael Benson: So the snowflakes were a different…

Six months away from its 250th year, the United States of America is still in its infancy. It is an empire forever moving and shifting, trying…

Composer Peter Hugh White and librettist Clare Heath join host Rosie Millard in front of a London audience to explore why the story of chemist and…

Park Chan-wook is a master of genre — he’s put his visceral, cheeky stamp on romantic noir, action thrillers, gothic horror and, now, blistering satire. Set…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.You might know Chris Hadfield as the International Space Station commander who famously sang David Bowie’s “Space…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to…

There are two types of horror – one that shocks you into more inventive ways to hide behind a pillow; and the other that creeps under…

Industrial Light and Magic has defied gravity and other forces to remain a leading light of the visual effects sector for half a century. As the…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.The natural world is full of sexual diversity—traits that challenge binary definitions of male and female—but traditional…

I’m looking out at Alcatraz Island from a Mediterranean restaurant in San Francisco with hundred-dollar fish entrées on the menu. As I make small talk with…