A personal account of a hobbyist who spiraled into obsessive stock trading is shining ...

Picture yourself sitting across from a financial advisor who's charging you fees that slowly drain your retirement savings. For decades, retirees had no choice but to trust the numbers presented to ...

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

"Point Taken: A gamified intervention that creates enlightened disagreements" Should we drop standardized testing for college or Ph.D. admissions? Allow athletes to join teams based on gender identity ...

Our ability to observe and forecast severe weather events has improved markedly over the past few decades. Yet hazardous weather continues to cause loss of life and result in other preventable social ...

For the first time researchers demonstrate in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making. For the first time ...

Animal survival depends on effective attack and defense strategies, yet how these behaviors arise remains unclear. Addressing ...

During my visits to several schools in villages and nearby semi-urban areas, I encountered a troubling contradiction at the heart of science and mathematics education. These subjects—meant to explain ...

How Seed Oils Became Controversial—And What the Science Really Says A food scientist debunks the vilification of seed oils on social media and explains what research says about them. Why flu cases are ...

Researchers documented the activity of neurons that shape directional navigation as bats explored a remote island off the ...