Rachel Feltman: Happy Halloween, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Halloween is pretty much my favorite holiday. That’s mostly because of the crisp autumn ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. When someone we love dies we often yearn for the impossible: one more conversation.

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re mainly going to focus on one major story from last week: Hurricane Melissa. Here to ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Headaches are incredibly common, but they’ve gotten surprisingly little attention from scientists. If you're enjoying ...

Season 8’s “Virtual In-Stanity” is one of the many episodes that makes use of the wild CIA experiments and technologies for its story, but this is likely one of the most twisted takes on it. After ...

We come into the world screaming and vulnerable—entirely dependent on adult caregivers to keep us safe and teach us how to connect with others. The nature of these earliest relationships influences ...

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This valuable study investigates how perceptual and semantic features of maternal behavior adapt to infants' attention during naturalistic play, providing new insights into the bidirectional and ...

Stories describing what can happen when science is manipulated or misapplied are among the winners of the 2025 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Winning journalists also did stories on science at ...

Ashley's new confidence enrages estranged husband Terry, who stalks her to a secluded lot, ready to reclaim control in the deadliest way. A small-town marriage ends in tragedy when a man who uses a ...

A bloody clash between Bostonians and the British army leaves five dead in the Boston Massacre. On October 1st, 1768, General Gage and the British Army arrive in Boston to begin their occupation.