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A new report from the HHS that is critical of gender-affirming care for minors updates a similar, widely criticized report in May...

Strong evidence suggests that food allergies are caused by a lack of exposure to food allergens—not by exposure to toxins...

NASA spacecraft across the inner solar system captured new views of Comet 3I/ATLAS—the third known interstellar object...

Humans and their ancestors have likely been kissing for a very long time...

Researchers tracked thousands of Americans for decades, finding no links between ingesting recommended levels of fluoride and lower cognitive skills.....

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient s...

E-mails between Larry Summers and the now deceased financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2018 and 2019 have raised questions about a relatio...

Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole universes. What they’re findin...

A tiny, misplaced label may have slowly loosened a critical wire on the ship that hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, eventually causing a...

The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store...

Melatonin supplements have become a ubiquitous sleep aid, but research shows that benefits are modest, and the heart health effects of long-term use a...

The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others...

As holiday feasts and stress approach, an expert explains how to keep your gut healthy without skipping the stuffing....

If you enjoyed Beth Gardiner’s feature about big oil’s bet on plastics, here are more books curated by Scientific American...

In recent weeks, dozens of infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulism in an outbreak linked to ByHeart powdered infant formula...

Deep emotional distress after birth kills many mothers. A new kind of drug offers better, faster treatment...

When anyone can forge reality, society can’t self-govern. Borrowing Denmark’s approach could help the U.S. restore accountability around d...

Letters to the editors for the July/August Issue 2025 issue of Scientific American...