The very best electric toothbrushes vibrate or rotate to remove around 20% more plaque than a standard manual toothbrush. They…
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When looking for the best online coding courses, it’s important to consider as many perspectives as possible. Some people seek…
About 15 million years ago in a warm coastal sea covering what is now southern Maryland, the ocean surface suddenly…
Different new routes for constructing SMSIs were concluded, where the activity, selectivity, and stability of the supported metal catalysts are…
Researchers have created a liquid biopsy test, which uses two circulating proteins, to test for major liver diseases. The test…
The discovery of poliovirus in New York state, London and Jerusalem this year has taken many by surprise — but…
Electronics are getting increasingly expensive so it can be difficult to find a good deal these days, but Best Buy’s…
[]Hot yoga benefits include more than leaving your class sporting a glistening sheen of sweat. Perceived benefits of hot yoga…
A new technique that can analyse how drug molecules bind to proteins in tissue samples could offer an improved route…
Among other things, the SwRI-led PUNCH mission will image coronal mass ejections, such as this Aug. 31, 2012, event. The…
Thanks to COVID vaccines, more people were immunized in 2021 than in any other year in history. Yet that same…
Bronze Age blades made of obsidian from Melos. Credit: Deanna Aubert A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is…
In an analysis of medical information of more than 6,000 American adults with a history of cardiovascular disease (CVD), researchers…
A study found that most people in the United States dramatically underestimate their fellow citizen’s support for action to address…
The majority of days every year could become dangerously hot in many parts of the world if warming reaches 3°C…
[]If you have just been diagnosed with an underactive thyroid, you may be wondering whether there is a specific hypothyroidism…
That’s no moon. That’s a moonlet.NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) (opens in new tab) spacecraft just beamed back the…
Homo neanderthalensis adult male. Reconstruction based on Shanidar 1 by John Gurche for the Human Origins Program, NMNH. Credit: Chip…
Sensitive test to detect a possible fifth fundamental force known as the chameleon force provides the best evidence yet that…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A group of international scientists led by Cornell University is—more rigorously and systematically than ever before—evaluating…
Embryo-like structures grown in an incubator instead of a uterus could lead to better treatments for infertility and a range…
Credit: Scott Warman on Unsplash Labels alerting customers that products contain ingredients from genetically engineered plants may reduce sales, at…
[]You’ve probably heard of cross training in the context of exercise, as this method of training has become popular among…
Astyanax mexicanus cave fish have adapted to an incredibly tough environment: chilly, pitch-dark caves that flood about once a year,…
This podcast was produced for The Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board…
From mobile phones to cloudy glass panes: annoying reflections often hinder the propagation of waves. TU Wien (Vienna) and the…
The blades of a wind turbine are typically designed to be replaced about every 20 years. This means that, as…
The rules of wrinkling are surprisingly hard to pin down. Using experiments, simulations and mathematical proofs, a team has uncovered…
In Liu Cixin’s short story “The Wandering Earth (opens in new tab)” (first published in Chinese magazine Science Fiction World…
Humans are famously social animals. But they are not alone in their tendency to team up with other individuals of…