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Photos produced by artificial intelligences could alter the performance of other AIs if used in training data setsDALL-E The popularity…
A University of Alberta researcher is one step closer to demonstrating the potential of a brain molecule called fractalkine to…
Minks in Spain, seals in Scotland, sea lions and dolphins in South America: a number of mammal species have recently…
Researchers recently simulated a quantum network larger than the city of Paris, FranceNisian Hughes/Getty Images Soon, we may be living…
People with a higher cumulative estrogen exposure throughout their life may have a lower risk of stroke, according to a…
Last September, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft smashed into an asteroid, deliberately altering the rock’s trajectory through space…
In 2020, amid the first pandemic lockdowns, a scientific conference scheduled to take place in India never happened. But a…
A team of researchers at the University of Houston is reporting the success of their new method for the early…
An artist’s interpretation of the marine life unearthed at the Waterloo Farm site in South Africa, including the giant fish…
While residents in California are still dealing with damage from last month’s floods — after years of devastating droughts –…
Olrog’s gull (Larus atlanticus) has dark wingsJacinto Escaray/Shutterstock The dark colours on the top of the short, wide wings of…
CLIMATEWIRE | Algal blooms are growing bigger and more frequent worldwide as ocean temperatures rise and circulation patterns change. Climate change…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain U.S. elementary school students do not particularly benefit from being taught by teachers of the same…
Protesters demanding a “loss and damage” deal at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, EgyptSOPA Images Limited/Alamy Another year,…
Colombian environment minister Susana Muhamad has triggered fear among researchers that she will protect, rather than reduce, a growing population…
Perhaps unknowingly, airline passengers who lived through the outage of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Notice to Air Systems (NOTAM)…
Mounds of salt on the Salar de Uyuni, BoliviaJami Tarris/Stone RF/Getty Images A longstanding mystery about how salt dissolves in…
The skeletal remains of two Bronze Age brothers buried more than 3,400 years ago in what’s now northern Israel reveal…
For the first time, scientists generated stem cells from bats that can give rise to any type of cell found…
Flash Joule heating can be used to make carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers from mixed waste plastics, a method that…
Scientists have found the secret behind a property of solid materials known as ferroelectrics, showing that quasiparticles moving in wave-like…
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New research has found some antidepressants may be effective in treating certain chronic pain conditions, but others lack convincing evidence…
Volatile chemicals of tsetse flies. Methyl palmitoleate (MPO), produced by the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans, elicits physiological responses from olfactory…
SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify [Music] DelViscio: This is Jeff DelViscio, chief multimedia editor here at Scientific American. Bose: And this is…
Tapping into your “muscle memory” to tie your shoes or play an instrument may feel automatic — but to execute…
More than 3 million adults were forced to evacuate their homes in the past year because of a natural disaster,…
My hometown of Los Angeles is home to the earliest reported earthquake dating back to 1769 (and, of course, many more since…