Scientific American

Scientific American

[:es]Scientists Failed to Use Common Sense Early in the Pandemic[:]

The WHO’s initial advice not to wear masks in the fight to contain COVID sowed dangerous confusion
Scientific American

[:es]Why Hatred and ‘Othering’ of Political Foes Has Spiked to Extreme Levels[:]

The new political polarization casts rivals as alien, unlikable and morally contemptible
Scientific American

[:es]Climate Change Is Central to California’s Wildfires[:]

Conservative pundits who tout land management as the main issue fail to see the big picture
Scientific American

[:es]Quantum Time Twist Offers a Way to Create Schrödinger’s Clock[:]

Physicists describe a way to merge quantum theory with Einstein’s special theory of relativity—and even a method to test it experimentally
Scientific American

[:es]Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50[:]

Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology
Scientific American

[:es]‘Hybrid’ Quantum Networking Demonstrated for First Time[:]

By exploiting the wave-and-particle-like nature of light, a new technique offers the best of both worlds
Scientific American

[:es]Tiny Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Search Anywhere in the Sky[:]

A much smaller and more reproducible version of LIGO could transform gravitational-wave astronomy
Scientific American

[:es]Why Do People Avoid Facts That Could Help Them?[:]

Several studies suggest that individuals widely prefer to remain ignorant about information that would benefit them when it’s painful—and sometimes when it’s pleasurable
Scientific American

[:es]Rethinking Easter Island’s Historic ‘Collapse’[:]

Controversial new archaeological research casts doubt on a classic theory of this famous island’s societal collapse