Culture

Red and Blue Protesters Marching on United States Flag

OpinionOctober 29, 2024

People Overestimate Political Opponents’ Immorality

To heal political division, start with common moral ground, a study suggests

Curtis Puryear, Emily Kubin, Kurt Gray

A closeup of a centipede show on a white background.

CultureOctober 22, 2024

Jeff VanderMeer on How Scientific Uncertainty Inspires His Weird Fiction

In Absolution, the fourth novel in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach saga, scientists try to know the unknowable

Amy Brady

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Students sit at bamboo desks while attending class at Green School on May 20, 2013 in Badung, Bali, Indonesia. The classroom is in a building structure is made from bamboo with open sides and a thatched roof

OpinionOctober 21, 2024

Worldschooling Is Catching On. Here’s What You Need to Know

People are pulling their kids out of traditional education to learn while they travel. Data on educational success are limited, but there are other reasons to consider worldschooling

Jennie Germann Molz

Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump, photographed from behind in silhouette, speaks from behind a glass barrier. In the distance beyond the silhouette of Trump, podium and stage, the audience and several American flags can be seen

OpinionOctober 17, 2024

Donald Trump Wants to Make Eugenics Great Again. Let’s Not

Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era

Arthur Caplan, James Tabery

Cover of the November 2024 issue of Scientific American.

CultureOctober 15, 2024

Lucy Turns 50, and Dark Energy Gets More Mysterious

What works to improve health equity? And it might be time to end the leap second

Laura Helmuth

Cover of the June 2024 issue of Scientific American

CultureOctober 15, 2024

Readers Respond to the June 2024 Issue

Letters to the editors for the June 2024 issue of Scientific American

Aaron Shattuck

Image of a woman and a man, Miriam Quick and Duncan Geere

CultureOctober 15, 2024

Contributors to Scientific American’s November 2024 Issue

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories

Allison Parshall

Illustration of three patients getting their blood pressure, lungs listened to and bandage placed by three different arms

CultureOctober 15, 2024

Cultural Competency in Health Care Can Save Lives

Medical professionals who connect with their patients’ language and culture provide better care

Rod McCullom

A medical technician performs a sonogram on a pregnant patient

OpinionOctober 11, 2024

Third-Trimester Abortions Are Moral and Necessary Health Care

Abortions after 20 weeks are about ending suffering. To deny someone that care is barbaric

Cara C. Heuser

Illustration of silhouetted giant hand controlling a man with puppet strings on a blue background

OpinionSeptember 26, 2024

Milgram’s Infamous Shock Studies Still Hold Lessons for Confronting Authoritarianism

Why ordinary people will follow orders to the point of hurting others remains a critical question for scientists—though some answers have emerged

Laura Niemi, Edouard Machery, John M. Doris

PsychologySeptember 20, 2024

Moral Judgments May Shift with the Seasons

Certain values carry more weight in spring and autumn than in summer and winter

Anvita Patwardhan

Illustration of ear with sound waves on blue background

OpinionSeptember 18, 2024

How Your Brain Tells Speech and Music Apart

Simple cues help people to distinguish song from the spoken word

Andrew Chang

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