How working memory could give rise to consciousness(scientificamerican.com)

41 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | 37 comments

Becoming a dad changes men's brains(scientificamerican.com)

53 points by momentmaker 4 months ago | 35 comments

Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging(scientificamerican.com)

34 points by beardyw 9 months ago | 31 comments

Thunderstorms Have Caused $45B in Damages in the U.S. in Six Months(scientificamerican.com)

33 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 13 comments

GDP is the wrong tool for measuring what matters (2020)(scientificamerican.com)

36 points by simonfxr 3 years ago | 10 comments

Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science(reason.com)

405 points by Bostonian 1 year ago | 746 comments

Reason opinion piece by Jesse Singal arguing that Scientific American's departing editor made the magazine ideologically biased, undermining trust in science.

The Fall of Scientific American(thenation.com)

49 points by littlexsparkee 2 days ago | 32 comments

A Nation investigative article on how Springer Nature pressured Scientific American's editorial staff over political coverage, leading to unionization efforts and the magazine's sale to LabX.

How the U.S. became a science superpower(steveblank.com)

420 points by groseje 1 year ago | 407 comments

Steve Blank blog post on how WWII-era science advisors and policy choices made the U.S. a science and engineering superpower while Britain fell behind.

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds(science.org)

402 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 350 comments

Science magazine news article reporting an analysis finding that sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake scientific papers.

U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators(science.org)

390 points by ceejayoz 5 months ago | 241 comments

Science magazine news article on new U.S. restrictions on researchers publishing with foreign collaborators; the capture shows a Cloudflare bot check.

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem(scientificamerican.com)

733 points by pr337h4m 6 months ago | 508 comments

Scientific American article about an amateur who used ChatGPT to prove a 60-year-old Erdős conjecture with a novel method.

U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office(science.org)

362 points by j_maffe 9 months ago | 270 comments

Science magazine news article reporting the U.S. federal government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhD employees since Trump took office; page shows Cloudflare check.