The idea was that high-powered lasers would propel tiny probes to 20 percent of the speed of light, impelling them with ...

Black Americans face a significantly higher risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias than white Americans. Researchers are ...

Aposter-size version of the front page of the very first issue of this magazine hangs in the lobby of Springer Nature’s New ...

Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few ...

I swim up, rapt, to visibility. I whisper my secret only to you, the clue, first word of the organic story. The ancient ...

When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The ...

More than 13.8 million Americans could have Alzheimer’s by 2060, and at the rate care facilities are closing, many of them ...

New Alzheimer’s drugs known as anti-amyloid therapies may slow disease progression—but they also carry serious risks, ...

While our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease is far from complete, the latest therapies, and others in more than 100 ...

The global incidence of Alzheimer’s is increasing at a rapid rate. In the U.S., more people than ever are being diagnosed ...

Early studies suggest that lifestyle changes such as diet, exercise and social engagement may help slow or prevent ...

Letters to the editors for the May 2025 issue of Scientific American ...