Storm-Tossed Baby Pterosaurs Died with Broken Wings, Fossil Evidence Suggests
About 150 million years ago storm winds snapped bones in the wings of baby pterosaurs, sending them tumbling to their deaths in a muddy lagoon in what is now Germany
A Mammoth Toothache: Bacterial Community Discovered in Mouth of Ancient Mammoth
How the Math of Shuffling Cards Almost Brought Down an Online Poker Empire
Kids from Marginalized Communities Are Learning in the Hottest Classrooms
Math Puzzle: Find the Unknot
This Gloriously Weird Fish Has Teeth on Its Forehead for Sex
How the Brain Tells Imagination from Reality
Gene Therapy Marks a Turning Point for Rare Skin Diseases
Acne Vaccines Could Offer Robust Defense
One Year after Scientific American’s First Issue, the Solar System Grew by a Planet
Scientific American Celebrates 180 Years with Stories of Scientific U-turns
U.S. Science and Scientific American Have Weathered Attacks Before and Won
Quantum Physics Is Bizarre. So Why Have We Loved It for 100 Years?
Can Peanut Allergies Be Cured?
What Happens When an Entire Generation of Scientists Changes Its Mind
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The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’
Building Intelligent Machines Helps Us Learn How Our Brain Works
Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences
How the Brain ‘Constructs’ the Outside World
How to Read Hurricane Maps and Avoid Common Mistakes
The Storm That Drowned a City—And the Science That Saw It Coming
Mining the Deep Sea Could Threaten a Source of Ocean Oxygen
Scientific American Celebrates 180 Years with Stories of Scientific U-turns
Small, Easy Acts of Joy Mean Big Gains in Happiness
A community science project finds that modest reminders to find joy in the day can have benefits that are on par with those of more ambitious well-being interventions
How the Math of Shuffling Cards Almost Brought Down an Online Poker Empire
Card dealers create a unique deck with each shuffle, something computers cannot replicate
How the Brain Tells Imagination from Reality
Seeing and imagining use similar brain machinery. New research reveals the brain circuit that identifies what is real, which may help scientists understand conditions such as schizophrenia
What’s the Smallest Particle in the Universe?
The answer to this supposedly simple particle physics question isn’t so simple
New Knot Theory Discovery Overturns Long-Held Mathematical Assumption
Mathematicians have unraveled a key conjecture about knot theory
Should You Spend $2 to Win $1.7 Billion? Inside Powerball Math
Winning more than $1 billion in Powerball is an exciting possibility, but keeping a cool math mind can help you decide whether that opportunity is worth your $2 bet
