Fat Is Not the Problem--Fat Stigma Is
“Health experts” are sending incorrect and destructive messages about the relationship between weight and wellness
Observations
Opinion, arguments & analyses from guest experts and from the editors of Scientific American
The Last Good Gig: A Summer at the South Pole
Nobody has lukewarm feelings about Antarctica, and some people don’t fit in anywhere else
A Fight for the Purity of the Night Sky
The recent controversy over a constellation of SpaceX satellites echoes a similar uproar that happened back in the early 1960s
Pluto Redux
The faraway world’s demotion more than a decade ago opened a celestial can of worms
Computing Biology's Future
Life scientists need new training to grapple with their discipline’s explosion of data
It Takes a Village to Declassify an Error Bar
Identifying an interstellar meteorite— ‘Oumuamua’s cousin — required a national-security waiver...
Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
If we don’t know how AIs make decisions, how can we trust what they decide?
A Bulwark against Trump's Stem Cell Ban
California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a kind of mini-NIH, does crucial basic research without federal funding
Nobel Laureate Recalls Zoo Inspiration
As a boy, George P. Smith was fascinated by reptiles. In this interview with Scientific American , Smith talks about how his scientific interest changed from reptiles to molecular biology—and led to his Nobel Prize-winning work using evolutionary principles to develop systems that make it possible to create entirely new kinds of pharmaceuticals...
Her Nobel Research Outshines Her Star Turn
Nobel Laureate Frances H. Arnold talks to Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina about her work, which takes advantage of the evolution algorithm to make entirely new enzymes that can perform useful chemistry...
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