Colon cancer is pretty nasty—and scientists have now identified a very specific oral bacterium that may drive its progression. Thanks to Susan Bullman Dr. Martha Zepeda Rivera 🇲🇽 (she/her) CJohnstonLab for sharing your work, and Lauren J. Young for the edits! My first for Scientific American.

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If you plan to enjoy all the solar eclipse splendor, a reminder to double-check if your eclipse glasses are safe or fake. Here's a great explainer by Sarah Sloat Scientific American 😎 scientificamerican.com/article/eclips…

For science journalists, the combo of earthquake plus eclipse plus double cicada brood is like our super bowl, presidential election and oscars all in one week scientificamerican.com/article/earthq… by Andrea Thompson on Scientific American

My first Scientific American article is up! It's on my ticker-tape synesthesia! Spoken words automatically turn into written ones in my head. scientificamerican.com/article/my-syn…

Before writing this I had no eclipse plans and then when reporting this out was told many times how lame that was and now I'm gonna go to the path of totality, baby! So I hope this article helps you not only avoid burning your lil eyes but inspires you too:scientificamerican.com/article/eclips…

In this special April issue, we predict an eclipse of the eclipse, and reveal the physics of love and where dark matter hides.

Read it now 🔗 trib.al/ONv2o0E

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Asian American groups have many commonalities that bind us, but our health and disease risks can be vastly different. Recognizing our diversity is quite literally a life or death matter. Words for JAMA by Jyoti Madhusoodanan and illustration by alprazolam 🫀✍🏽. bit.ly/49irCHo

Come for the gorgeous comet photo, stay for some cool science about it! scientificamerican.com/article/stunni…

today, Scientific American is launching a new expert-written column on the science behind parenting and how to parse through some of the advice that's out there.

here's our intro.

send your ideas to opinion#sciam.com and share this with your networks.

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for those who don't know, i still make the Popular Science podcast (@Weirdest_Thing)—and i'm looking for guests for season 8!!!!!

come talk about your favorite thing for 10 mins (as long as it has some tangential relation to science or tech) 🥰

reply or shoot me a DM :)

People in the U.S. don't understand who's getting abortions and why, and that's a problem: scientificamerican.com/article/who-ge…

Writing notes by hand is a better way to learn than typing, a whole bunch of studies now show. (Whether or not you can read the notes later is a different problem) scientificamerican.com/article/why-wr… on Scientific American

Come work with us! Scientific American is hiring interns for news, opinion and graphics. Links below: News: careers.springernature.com/job/New-York-N… Opinion: careers.springernature.com/job/New-York-O… Graphics: careers.springernature.com/job/New-York-G…

Finally published after weeks of reporting!
How a neglected post-war photography archive was rediscovered, saved, meticulously digitized -- all 1.7 million physical prints! -- and is now informing ground-breaking new research on Earth's past (and future). eenews.net/articles/beer-…

These are fascinating graphics showing demographic changes & family size. How many living kin does a woman have around the world? (And I think it's the first time we've used the delightful term 'nibling' at @SciAm) scientificamerican.com/article/shrink…

My first for @SciAm! I cover a recent study on how demographic changes may shift the size/composition of extended families + what this means for older adult/child care

Thanks Lauren J. Young for the amazing edits & Amanda Montañez for the stunning graphics! scientificamerican.com/article/shrink…

I drank the Charged Lemonade and learned a thing or two about caffeine 🔋 My latest for The Atlantic:

theatlantic.com/health/archive…

I've got all the content you need today with why it is so cold scientificamerican.com/article/whats-… and that thing we do about ice scientificamerican.com/article/why-do…

I love being a reporter for the opportunity to descend rabbit holes of my own interest—and change my mind. This service journalism piece on vagus nerve stimulation made me reconsider the potential of non-pharmaceutical approaches to treating #LongCovid .
scientificamerican.com/article/zappin…