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Why Building an Artificial Pancreas for People with Diabetes Is So Hard—And How Tech Is Finally Catching Up

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

How a father’s love, entrepreneurship and tech advances could lead to a working artificial pancreas

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Saving the Vision of People with Diabetic Retinopathy

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Diabetic eye disease robs sight from millions. But there are often ways to save vision

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Can Genetic Testing Predict Type 1 Diabetes? Experts Say Earlier Treatment Is Possible

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Genetic screening can mean that people at risk of type 1 diabetes get earlier treatment and better outcomes

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Meet the Advocates Who Are Changing Type 1 Diabetes Care for the Better

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Advocates are lightening mental health burdens, improving pregnancy care and helping patients in developing countries

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A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes May be Closer Than You Think

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

A new drug slows insulin-dependent diabetic deterioration and has sped up development of a complete remedy

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Advances in Type 1 Diabetes Science and Tech

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Living with type 1 diabetes today is leaps and bounds easier than it was decades ago. Things are only getting better

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Complex Life May Have Evolved Multiple Times

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once

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What Brain Science Reveals about Ethical Decline and Moral Growth

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Your brain gets used to wrongdoing. It can also get used to doing good

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November 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Curveballs; poison wallpaper

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Science Crossword: Organized Chaos

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Play this crossword inspired by the November 2025 issue of Scientific American

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NASA Is Crucial to the U.S. Winning the New Space Race

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

The U.S. wants to remain a superpower in space. It can’t without supporting NASA

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Poem: ‘In Reality’

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Science in meter and verse

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Math Puzzle: Find the Time

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Decode a confusing clock in this math puzzle

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Contributors to Scientific American’s November 2025 Issue

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories

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Readers Respond to the June 2025 Issue

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Letters to the editors for the June 2025 issue of Scientific American

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Workouts Help to Treat Cancer and Improve Survival

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Workouts seem to release body chemicals that improve cancer survival and limit recurrence

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Three Anti-Inflammatory Supplements Can Really Fight Disease, according to the Strongest Science

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Experts say the strongest scientific studies identify three compounds that fight disease and inflammation

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The Growing Global Burden of Type 1 Diabetes

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

This autoimmune disease impacts millions of people worldwide, with some underserved communities bearing the brunt

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A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

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Being Wrong Is a Scientific Superpower

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00am

Snake oil, smuggling and a fundamental change in the way we understand life

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