Percentage of each state’s residents that were also born in that state: Data vs. model with endogenous migration. Notes: The…
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An equatorial skymap of all 1975 YSE DR1 transients as of 2021 December 20, each marked as a circle with…
More than three times as many houses and other structures burned in Western wildfires in 2010-2020 than in the previous…
In an extremely rare case, doctors surgically removed a fetus from the brain of a 1-year-old child. Doctors found the…
Recyclable materials collectors at work in Brazil. Credit: Jannsen Santana, Daiane Scaraboto and Flavia Cardoso When Luiz Inácio Lula da…
Keeping indoor spaces comfortable takes a lot of power. About half the energy Americans use in their homes goes toward…
Hundreds of scientists around the world are looking for ways to treat heart attacks. But few started where Hedva Haykin…
Astronomers using the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, have uncovered…
This is Science, Quickly, a podcast from Scientific American. I’m Stefano Montali. If I asked you to visualize, say, Harry…
New research from the Centre for Cancer Immunology at the University of Southampton, published ahead of World Cancer Day (4…
A lawsuit in Texas not only has the potential to further restrict abortion access in the United States — but…
Credit: University of New Mexico Trickle-down economics may have more than one meaning in New Mexico. The traditional definition explains…
CLIMATEWIRE | There’s a growing consensus among climate scientists that in order to avoid the worst effects of global warming, humanity…
Credit: Dr. Louise Boronyak and Bradley Smith Since European colonization, farmers have often viewed dingoes as the enemy, waging war…
Take apart your laptop screen, and at its heart you’ll find a plate patterned with pixels of red, green, and…
There’s a floating garbage dump orbiting Earth, and it’s getting fuller every year. Space debris — known colloquially as space junk…
If you’ve ever heard the term “alpha wolf,” you might imagine snapping fangs and fights to the death for dominance.…
When I went vegetarian a decade ago, I found it pretty painless to pass on most animal-based dishes. Burgers? Plant-based…
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…