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Illustration of Adam Bowman, a researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a member of Scientific American's inaugural Young American Scientists class. The graphic lists his age as 30 and his field as biophysics.
The cover of the July/August 2026 issue of Scientific American, with "The Young American Scientists" in the center.
The cover of the July/August issue of Scientific American. It is a special issue called The Young American Scientists and features images of a few researchers as well as colorful scientific art in the background.
The bingo card for Scientific American's summer reading challenge. It features an illustrated sun with glasses as the mascot. The card has 25 square blocks and each one contains a reading prompt for the challenge. There is one free space available in the center of the bingo card.
An animation brings the cover of the June 2026 Scientific American cover on quantum computing to life.
Poll results for "Choose your favorite dinosaur below" with a wide range of options. Triceratops and Stegosaurus lead, tied at 20 votes each.
Graphic shows a chart resembling a color wheel with 39 wedges, each representing one trait from the Autism Symptom Dimensions Questionnaire. The traits are grouped by color into 10 key symptom factors including basic social communication, repetitive motor behaviors and restricted interests.
Text reads "Escape the Headlines. Explore the Universe." Displayed above images of a Scientific American magazine and the publication's app and website, accompanied by a sticker reading "$1 for 90 Days--Subscribe Today"
A graphic reading "We're nominated for a Webby award: vote for us" with a golden laptop behind the text
A graphic reading "We're nominated for a Webby award: vote for us" with a golden laptop behind the text
An array of delicious pastries.
An illustration with a candle flame to the bottom left and the letters "TaN" with red arrows traveling from the flame through the letters.
A half-disk view of the moon, with a tiny crescent Earth above it.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch silhouetted against a view of bright Earth out the window of the Orion spacecraft.
NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch seen smiling in their orange flight suits on the helicopter that picked them up from the Orion capsule.
Six boats surround a space capsule with bright orange balloons on its top.
Three parachutes and a space capsule against dark blue ocean.
A "live" logo above a headline reading NASA's Artemis II crew returns to Earth. Above an artist's rendering of the Orion spacecraft entering Earth's atmosphere.
A "live" logo above a headline reading NASA's Artemis II crew returns to Earth. Above an artist's rendering of the Orion spacecraft entering Earth's atmosphere.
A graphic of the Artemis II reentry timeline. The process takes 13 minutes for the capsule to travel from 400,000 feet above Earth down to the ocean. Also marked are a communications blackout spanning from about 30 seconds to 6 minutes into the process and the parachute deploy from 10 to 12.5 minutes.
A "live" logo above a headline reading NASA's Artemis II crew returns to Earth. Above an artist's rendering of the Orion spacecraft entering Earth's atmosphere.
Headline reads: Why can't humans regenerate limbs? New research offers a clue. Over a cross section of a regenerating tadpole limb.
Headline: NASA's Dragonfly will explore the air, land and seas of Titan, Saturn's most mysterious moon. Over an artist's rendition of a drone flying over sand dunes.
Headline: Medieval poets wrote about auroras. Their work is providing clues to the solar cycle. Below an image of a magenta aurora.
Headline: How the wildlife trade boosts the chance of a disease jumping from animals to humans. Over an image of a smol screaming bat being held by a hand in work gloves.
Headline: Why bombing Iran's nuclear power plant could cause an environmental disaster. Above an image of Iran's Bushehr plant.
Headline reads: White House budget seeks to scrap 54 major NASA science missions. Over an image of Jupiter.
Headline: Two hundred chimpanzees are embroiled in a 'civil war'. Image below depicts a chimpanzee baring its teeth.