Scientifc America

Suppressing the flow of unwanted thoughts is possible and can help people cope with difficult memories

Millions of miles of U.S. rivers have dramatically improved in the half-century after the Clean Water Act, but climate change and other types of pollution still pose threats

Certain compounds in our skin determine how much we attract mosquitoes, new research suggests—and those compounds don’t change much over time

Climate change may be leading to strange hostilities between different animal species over limited resources

COVID and overdose deaths have sharply cut U.S. life expectancy, with Indigenous peoples experiencing the biggest decline

Researchers and tire companies hope drought-tolerant guayule can provide a sustainable economic boost to the water-stressed Southwest

The Iranian government is taking advantage of Internet shutdowns to push citizens onto a local intranet that is vulnerable to surveillance and censorship

Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y., had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements. In the final episode of this season’s Lost Women of Science podcast, we see how Y.Y.’s more than five decades of teaching educated a new generation of mechanical engineers, who credit her with helping to change the industry

Uganda’s Ebola incident commander talks with Scientific American about the outbreak’s spread, the country’s response and the risk of cross-border transmission

Fresh data from the Juno probe’s flyby of Europa could help scientists learn whether this icy moon of Jupiter is habitable—or even inhabited