Studying quantum mechanics, which I’ve been doing for the last two-plus years, has served as an antidote to my tendency…
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Active reconfiguration of LDs upon nutrient reincorporation.(A) Nutrient reincorporation of S-1 leads to LD lipolysis (false color bright spots), while…
Animal-based products constitute a large portion of the average American’s diet, as well as the resources necessary to get them…
The Withings Body smart scale is decent enough: the set up is quick and it’s really easy to use, but…
There is plenty of ice and watery minerals underground at the poles of Mars, but NASA’s InSight lander found almost…
In this undated photo provided by Tennessee Aquarium, an endangered barrens topminnow is seen at the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga,…
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna waits to speak at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. France’s…
A scientist in Ukraine warns that the reactor at Europe’s largest nuclear power station is designed to protect against some…
It was a moderate hurricane whose damage seemed tame compared to the destruction five years earlier from Hurricane Maria. But…
Greenland’s variegated snailfish produces antifreeze proteins that stop large ice crystal formation, keeping the animal’s blood like a slushie, instead…
One of the long-promised benefits of quantum computers is simulating molecules very quickly, but it turns out that these extra-fast…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Around the world, public attitudes toward international politics are coalescing into two opposing blocks: liberal democracies…
Overall cancer death rates continued to decline among men, women, children, and adolescents and young adults in every major racial…
Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to COVID, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series! Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update…
To win at the card game of bridge, which is played between two sets of partners, one player must somehow…
An artificially intelligent algorithm has learned to recognise people from the way their hands shake when they hold a smartphone…
Ling Li, assistant professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has unlocked a mystery in the porous microstructures of…
One of the more poetic aspects of the universe is that frighteningly powerful and raging forces can sculpt objects of…
Like the flash of a garden snake darting through the grass, an undulating stream of plasma shoots across the sun…
After months of delay, the most powerful space rocket ever built has blasted off from its Florida launchpad, embarking on…
Just a stone’s throw from King Tut’s tomb, archaeologists have unearthed the pyramid of a never-before known ancient Egyptian queen;…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at The University of Queensland have found children in disadvantaged communities often go hungry when…
When researchers at Boston University (BU) in Massachusetts inserted a gene from the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 into a strain…
The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy has some of the most extraordinary regions of star formation of any galaxy we have…
Most people don’t think of turtles as being exceptionally chatty—or even making sounds at all. But research published today in…
Computing power of quantum machines is currently still very low. Increasing it is still proving to be a major challenge.…
In some circles, it’s known as climate reparations. In others, payments for “loss and damage.” Whatever the term, there are…
Early Wednesday (Nov. 16) morning, NASA finally launched its powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, a key milestone in the…
The evolutionary clade and biodiversity of green lizards of the genera Lacerta and Timon — reptiles common in the Mediterranean…
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Plön show that reputation plays a key role in determining which rewarding policies…