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Origami is the art of folding paper, but what’s the most times you can fold a paper in half? (Image…
Robots have been designed to move in ways that mimic animal movements, such as walking and swimming. Scientists are now…
On the website Infinite Conversation, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog and the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek are having a public…
Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human – but is there more to it? The brain’s…
The Renpho smart scale is one of the best devices for measuring body fat that we’ve tested. Despite its low…
Oral cancer is the 13th most common type of cancer globally, and oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCCs) account for more…
Plan design view of a single SRM 3461 device. Credit: National Institute of Standards and Technology Atomic force microscopy (AFM)…
Every once in a while we publish a story that makes the editorial team at Scientific American melt. When we…
Using specially designed diamonds with nitrogen-vacancy centers, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a technique…
Atrial and ventricular fibrillations are dangerous heart arrhythmias that claim millions of lives each year. Current treatment for them is…
Evidence of the economic opportunities that a circular economy could bring is mounting. The potential environmental impact is also clear.…
Zebra finches sing in group contexts and breeding status influences song at the nest and at these aggregations. (A) Song…
A beaver stands on top of its dam. (Image credit: Troy Harrison via Getty Images)Beavers are renowned for building dams,…
[]Grief is something nearly everyone will experience at some point in their lives. It can be overwhelming and confusing, and…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Editor’s Note (12/20/22): This…
The Japanese Hakuto-R lander is vying to be the first privately funded spacecraft to land on the moon Space 28…
Sixty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, U.S. military scientists achieved a major feat. They extracted a…
Just like many of our readers, Scientific American editors love our dogs, cats and other pets (just try to stop…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain High fertilizer prices could put an additional 100 million people at risk of undernourishment, a study…
Most people have two sex chromosomes, either two X’s or an X and a Y, which give rise to female…
If humans are ever going to be able to regrow damaged tissues the way lizards and fish routinely do, it…
Fragments of temperate rainforest grow in parts of England, Wales and Scotland, and with the right action we could help…
Credit: Dawn Quadling/Shutterstock Biodiversity refers to the variety of life found on Earth and underpins the natural systems which grow…
Though plants can serve as a source of food, oxygen and décor, they’re not often considered to be a good…
As viruses such as COVID-19 spread, they can become endemic in new regions. (Image credit: Peter Zelei Images via Getty…
Versatile, facile and low-cost single-cell isolation, culture and sequencing by optical tweezer-assisted pool-screening. Credit: Liu Yang Researchers from the Qingdao…
By Michael Le Page The Amami spiny ratASATO KUROIWA For any mammal, the loss of the Y chromosome should mean…
Researchers have identified different pathways that lower a mouse’s desire to eat when it’s in pain – and a similar…
Credit: ESA—European Space Agency Recently, Andreas Mogensen, now getting ready for his “Huginn” mission to the ISS in 2023, stopped…