When I went vegetarian a decade ago, I found it pretty painless to pass on most animal-based dishes. Burgers? Plant-based…
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On balance, science tends to follow a slow and incremental path: new observations build on previous findings, often over many…
GPT-4 is built by OpenAIGSTech / Alamy Stock Photo The AI behind popular chatbot ChatGPT has been updated to a…
If she hits just the right pitch, a singer can shatter a wine glass. The reason is resonance. While the…
Graphical abstract. Credit: Science of The Total Environment (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162600 Brazil must protect and restore its dry forests and…
Few threats are more damaging to a vineyard or citrus grove than a blight of sharpshooters. The half-inch-long insects are…
This artist’s conception illustrates a supermassive black hole (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. Now…
The luminous, hot star known as Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124)IMAGE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team About 15,000…
The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago,…
An illustration of Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth. (Image credit: DOERS)The deepest depths of the sea are found…
CLIMATEWIRE | A panel of climate experts convened by the United Nations is calling for international regulations to extend into the…
Tanya Lewis: Hi. I’m Tanya Lewis. Josh Fischman: And I’m Josh Fishman. We’re Scientific American’s senior health editors. Lewis: Welcome…
[]A gold pendant recently unearthed in Denmark bears the earliest known inscription featuring the Norse god Odin.[]Archaeologists think the pendant…
“Man is a wolf to man,” wrote the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. And given the atrocities we inflict on one…
Energy-efficient ways of cooling buildings and vehicles will be required in a changing climate. Researchers at Linköping University have now…
Aerogel that will be used to stabilize the fission fuel in the new FFRE. Credit: NASA / Ryan Weed Novel…
Giving experiences like ice skating as gifts and cutting down on food waste will keep your Christmas greenMassimo Borchi/Atlantide Phototravel/Getty…
Headaches are extremely common and they can take many forms, ranging from mild to debilitating and lasting minutes to days.…
Insects play crucial roles in almost every ecosystem — they pollinate more than 80% of plants and are a major…
Sun dogs You aren’t seeing triple. Sun dogs, brightly coloured blobs of light sometimes visible on either side of…
[]One of the deepest ocean trenches on Earth, the Kermadec Trench in the South Pacific, is home to rarely seen…
Dr Jody Hobson-Peters looks at cells used for the vaccine manufacture in culture in a container held by Dr Jessica…
Here’s something else chess players need to keep in check: air pollution. That’s the bottom line of a newly published…
[]A close-up of the mummified bear’s head. (Image credit: Press service of the North-Eastern Federal University)[]A perfectly preserved, mummified bear…
WITHOUT meaning to sound ungrateful, it really is the comedown after the festive cheer: the dreaded thank-you notes. Perhaps you…
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital (AP-HP), Inserm in the Imagine Institute, Université Paris Cité and the Alfort…
A study led by a North Carolina State University researcher found that under more severe climate warming scenarios, the inventory…
The rituals we build around Santa may be more for our benefit than for our children’s©Martin Parr/Magnum Photos ROHAN KAPITÁNY…
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at his Plains, Ga., home last month. Much has been written about…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The latest report into the rights of children in Aotearoa New Zealand has painted a mixed…