Extreme heat across much of India and neighbouring Pakistan in March and April exposed more than a billion people to…
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Fishers in Cambodia recently received a massive surprise when they reeled in a gigantic 400-pound stingray. The hefty ray was…
Abortion makes many people uncomfortable. I get it. When I was an ob-gyn resident, I recall telling my supervising physician…
Researchers have used the strongest magnetic field ever measured to search for exotic particles called magnetic monopoles, but they came…
“In high-poverty schools that were remote for more than half of 2021, the loss was about half of a school…
While working to map every cell in the human body, scientists uncovered an elusive type of immune cell that first…
Recovering from an injury is somewhat of an art, as professional sportspeople and their teams will attest. It takes a…
It all began late one night in June 2004, with a small dot swimming into view through the optics of…
Imagine you are an expectant parent. Just a couple of months into your pregnancy, you opt for an easy genetic…
AI company DeepMind has built a tool that can create working code to solve complex software challenges Technology 2 February…
Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, was the first planet to be discovered using a telescope. It is an…
For much of the past few decades motor vehicle crashes were the most common cause of death from injury—the leading…
A study recently completed at the University of Helsinki revealed that the fungal microbiota in the gut is more abundant…
Another cloud of Russian space debris has bloomed in orbit. An Earth-orbiting object cataloged as #32398 broke up on April…
Newcastle University scientists have found new types of plastic loving bacteria that stick to plastic in the deep sea that…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most Americans say they want a more equal society, yet policies aimed at increasing equality for…
The U.S. Supreme Court is about to make a huge mistake. If the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson…
For the first time, it is possible to see the quantum world from multiple points of view at once. This…
Healthy sleep is a basic physiologic need. In its absence, a myriad of processes in the body can go terribly…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Labeling the credibility of information sources does not shift the consumption of news away from low-quality…
CLIMATEWIRE | Right now, 12 wildfires are burning through nearly 280,000 acres in five states. Many more will burn in…
MECHANICAL MYSTERY “Wonder of the Ancient World,” by Tony Freeth, describes the Antikythera mechanism, a Greek astronomical calculation machine. As…
During spring in the Pacific Northwest, meltwater from thawing snow rushes down rivers and the wind often blows hard. These…
ARGENTINA As ice fields in the Patagonian Andes shrink, the tectonic plates underneath them are simultaneously pushing upward. Researchers found…
The health of residents living alongside a bus route in Gothenburg, Sweden, became considerably better when hybrid buses were replaced…
Picking the best Fitbit used to be easy because the options were limited, but the company now offers a diverse…
The Roman bust after it was bought by Laura Young. It was sold at a Goodwill in Austin, Texas for…
CLIMATEWIRE | As an intern for Dow Chemical in high school and college, Jalonne White-Newsome thought she’d found her life…
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans can be forgiven if they’ve lost track of the latest variants circulating nationally…
Tanya Lewis: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Tanya Lewis. On Monday a Supreme Court draft opinion was leaked,…