Scientific American

Scientific American

[:es]Fields Medals Are Concentrated in Mathematical ‘Families’[:]

[:es]In mathematics, as in many fields, who you know matters. An analysis of mathematicians’ “ancestors” (their graduate school advisers) as well as their descendants (the students they advised) shows that […]
Scientific American

[:es]See the Highest-Resolution Atomic Image Ever Captured[:]

[:es]Scientists achieved a record level of visual detail with an imaging technique that could help develop future electronics and better batteries[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Artificial Proteins Never Seen in the Natural World Are Becoming New COVID Vaccines and Medicines[:]

[:es]Researchers have begun to crack the code of protein structure, allowing them to remake, well, everything[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Human Evolution Led to an Extreme Thirst for Water[:]

[:es]We are more dependent on water than many other mammals and have developed a host of clever strategies for obtaining it[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Why Deadly ‘Black Fungus’ Is Ravaging COVID Patients in India[:]

[:es]Standard treatments such as steroids, as well as illnesses such as diabetes, make the fungal infection worse[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Our Memory Is Even Better Than Experts Thought[:]

[:es]In some respects, memory is poor. In others, it is astonishingly good[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Brood X Cicadas Are Emerging at Last[:]

[:es]The Great Eastern Brood has been underground for 17 years. Here’s what the insects have been up to down there[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Quantum Astronomy Could Create Telescopes Hundreds of Kilometers Wide[:]

[:es]Astronomers hope to use innovations from the subatomic world to construct breathtakingly large arrays of optical observatories[:]
Scientific American

[:es]How a Carnivorous Mushroom Poisons Its Prey[:]

[:es]Scientists have known for decades that oyster mushrooms feasted on roundworms—and they’ve finally figured out how their toxins work[:]