Smoke from northern Minnesota and western Ontario wildfires is pouring over the Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic and Northeast, bringing record levels of hazardous air pollution to major cities ...

The term ‘Heritage’ is not always an easy word for people to define. However, a word that is often used to describe one’s heritage is legacy. It is what we have done in the past, and what we will pass ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On the first Earth Day, in 1970, I was an ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In an age where we take the search for signs ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Minnesota Twins are my favorite baseball ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Viennese physician Josef Breuer ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The recent deaths of Freeman Dyson, Philip ...

The Daily Mail: “AI-Powered Scans Can Identify People at Risk of a Fatal Heart Attack Almost a Decade in Advance …” The Next Web: “This Scary AI Has Learned How to Pick Out Criminals by Their Faces” ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As the national conversation about how women ...

First, some basic facts to convey the scale of the problem. Cancer is the second most lethal disease in the U.S., behind only heart disease. More than 1.7 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer ...

Octopuses do the darndest things. Like kill their mate during mating—by strangling him with three arms, according to new observations from the wild. Hold on a second, you say. Strangling octopuses?

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As another decade ends, change is in the air.