The Cancer Center director at Stony Brook Medicine who came from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in August, Bergan has ambitious plans for research in a unit he hopes will have greater reach ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

For thousands of years traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners have checked patients’ tongues as part of a full examination, carefully scrutinizing their color, shape and coating in an ...

With each turn of the news cycle, you may wonder how anyone in their right mind, seeing what they’re seeing, could still hold differing political views from your own. I wrestle with some of these ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: RSV,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from MSD, Sanofi and AstraZeneca. Abigail Echo-Hawk believes in the ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. Scientific American celebrated its 180th birthday on August 28, 2025, by highlighting ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

A poster-size version of the front page of the very first issue of this magazine hangs in the lobby of Springer Nature’s New York City office. I walk past it multiple times a day, and one line of text ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a ...

It has been a decade since legendary actor Alan Alda was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and to his credit he is still getting after it at 90. And recently, the iconic “M*A*S*H” star revealed what ...

Alan Alda, known best for his role at “Hawkeye” in M*A*S*H, opened up about his long battle with Parkinson’s diseased. The nearly 90-year-old actor was diagnosed in 2015 and revealed what keeps him ...