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Clinicians have long relied on memory loss as a leading indicator of cognitive deterioration. But recent research suggests that subtle changes in speech tempo may offer an earlier, more reliable signal. A consistent delay in everyday word…

The sun’s rhythmic rise and fall in the sky can make it easy to forget that our star is unpredictable—a roiling, burbling mass of magnetically knotted plasma that governs the entire solar system. But a new video from the European Space…

A major tectonic divergence in East Africa is progressing more rapidly than earlier models projected, intensifying scientific efforts to monitor what could become the Earth’s next ocean basin. The East African Rift System, a geologic…

If you’re looking for an excellent star projector that…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.

The French philosopher and scientist René Descartes famously wrote, “I think, therefore I am.” What he was getting at, in…

The patient: A 26-year-old woman in California

The symptoms: The woman was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in an agitated and confused state. She spoke rapidly and jumped from one idea to another, and she expressed beliefs that she could…

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can’t repair damage very well – or at least, that’s what has long been presumed. Scientists in Australia have now caught heart muscle cells freely

California wildfire smoke linked to increased autism diagnoses, new study finds