Invasive spotted lanternflies are spreading across the metro areas of New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., despite professional and amateur attempts to reduce their numbers

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that surgeons could avoid them when removing a tumor

Simple cues help people to distinguish song from the spoken word

Play this crossword inspired by the October 2024 issue of Scientific American

This months issue covers the reasons its so hard to go back to the moon, the science of empathy and new advances in treating sickle cell disease

On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Central Europe and North Carolina have both been drenched by torrential rains

Rather than building an obsolescent, obscenely-over-budget jumbo rocket, NASA should turn to building truly innovative space technologies and plan a realistic lunar landing program

Illuminating the experience of people living with sickle cell could improve patients lives and enhance all of medicine

Study links choking under pressure to the brain region that controls movement

The predictive value of childhood screenings for autism and other conditions depends on how common the condition is, a limit that parents need to understand

AI fights conspiracy theories, Massachusetts leads the way on waste reduction, and more in this weeks science news roundup

The octopus sex chromosome appears to have been maintained over hundreds of millions of years, making it the most ancient of such chromosomes in animals

Clean indoor air protects against diseases such as COVID and flu, but were not doing enough to ensure it

The Federal Trade Commission is studying how companies use consumer data to charge different prices for the same product

Understanding how racism affects aging and the timing of menopause could lead to better screening and preventive care.

Reductions to American research at the South Pole could affect the politics of the southernmost continent

The Raygun Olympics fiasco points to how hip-hop scholarship is at risk of being colonized and undermined in academia

Not all cats are hydrophobic

A famous prediction that microchips improve exponentially over time can be applicable in unrelated developments, such as the technology used to discover colliding black holes

Dark matter may be lighter in mass than once hoped

A small study of transgender men taking testosterone revealed changes in immune pathways involved in responding to viruses and inflammation

As a result of phone bans, millions of students will stuff their phones into fabric pouches this fall

Training in symbolic logic is critical in many careers, for responsible citizenship and better lives. It is also an underexploited antidote to todays bizarre conspiracy thinking

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick speaks with Science Quickly host Rachel Feltman about how he captures jaw-dropping images from space

Caring for aging loved ones brings its own set of emotional and physical hurdles. Experts offer guidance on finding support.

Defending the U.S. is much more complicated in an era of climate change

Defending the U.S. is much more complicated in an era of climate change

After decades of work, physicists have finally broken into the atom to build the first nuclear clock

Mathematician Gauss left behind a trophy case of mathematical achievements to highlight on his tombstone, but above all he wanted a regular heptadecagon etched on it

Scientists have traced a baffling monotonous planetary hum that lasted for nine days back to a glacier in Greenland