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We all experience infantile amnesia, meaning we can't remember our very first years. Although babies do create lasting ...

The May issue of Science News always feels special to me because it is distributed to the more than 1,600 high school students from around the world who compete in the Regeneron International Science ...

User interface design expert Billy Hollis is annoyed when he spots even tiny application tweaks that could improve the intuitive experience for users. He finds them everywhere, even in our favorite ...

This podcast was produced for L’Oréal Groupe by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. Whether your hair is curly, straight or something in between ...

How does frailty impact outcomes after isolated tricuspid valve surgery—and what does it mean for transcatheter approaches? Harry Dauerman and Jennifer von Stein discuss real-world data that could ...

Mondo Duplantis can often make the pole vault look easy as he clears world-record heights. But as Athanassios Bissas explains ...