WHO Calls for Emergency Meeting as Chinese Virus Spreads to Health Care Workers

The new coronavirus has sickened people in several countries, and there has been at least one confirmed case of human-to-human transmission | Continue reading


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Is Iron Deficiency Causing Your Hair Loss?

Is your hair falling out? Nutrient deficiencies may be to blame. Reversing it starts with finding the cause | Continue reading


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Physicists Probe Validity of Einstein's Gravity on Cosmic Scales

New tests could verify the general theory of relativity, or find flaws | Continue reading


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Hookworm Runs Rampant in Schools

Originally published in March 1915 | Continue reading


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A Simple Twist of Thermodynamics Could Lead to Greener Refrigeration

Fibers that become colder when they are untwisted could inspire more environmentally-friendly fridges | Continue reading


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Old Drug, New Tricks: Existing Medicines Show Promise in Fighting Cancer

Dozens of compounds approved for other purposes can kill cancer cells selectively | Continue reading


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Old Drug, New Tricks: Existing Medicines Show Promise in Fighting Cancer

Dozens of compounds approved for other purposes can kill cancer cells selectively | Continue reading


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How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?

Do you really need eight hours of sleep each night to thrive? Savvy Psychologist Dr. Jade Wu breaks down the eight-hour sleep myth and offers three ways to find the best sleep for you | Continue reading


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The Unexpected Diversity of Pain

It comes in many types that each require specialized treatment, and scientists are learning to diagnose different varieties | Continue reading


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How the Fight over a Hawaii Mega-Telescope Could Change Astronomy

Thirty Meter Telescope controversy is forcing scientists to grapple with how their research affects Indigenous peoples | Continue reading


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Microplastics Pollution Is Everywhere. Is It Harmful?

Microplastics are everywhere. They've made their way into our food and water supply. There's no doubt we're ingesting them. Are they harmful? | Continue reading


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How Gut Microbes Shape Our Response to Drugs

The human microbiome activates some medicines, inactivates others and provokes side effects | Continue reading


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Catastrophic Australian Bushfires Derail Research

But scientists see chance to control invasive species and study ecosystem disruption | Continue reading


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7 Benefits of Swimming and How to Get Them

Get-Fit Guy takes a deeper dive into some of the more surprising benefits of going for a swim | Continue reading


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Readers Respond to the September 2019 Issue

Letters to the editor from the September 2019 issue of Scientific American | Continue reading


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Supercomputer Scours Fossil Record for Earth's Hidden Extinctions

Paleontologists have charted 300 million years of Earth’s history in breathtaking detail | Continue reading


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To Conserve Marine Species, Make Protected Areas Mobile

Because climate change is shifting ocean ecosystems, sanctuaries need to shift with them, experts argue | Continue reading


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This Fish Knows How to Stick Around

The remora clings to other fish—and appears to use an unusual sense of touch to do so. Christopher Intagliata reports.  | Continue reading


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Is Eating Late Bad for Your Heart?

The American Heart Association suggests that late night eating might increase your risk of heart disease. But how solid is the evidence? | Continue reading


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Kill-Switch for CRISPR Could Make Gene-Editing Safer

Anti-CRISPR proteins could bolster biosecurity and improve medical treatments | Continue reading


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Earth's Magnetic Field Is Drastically Revised

Originally published in March 1965 | Continue reading


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Are Human Body Temperatures Cooling Down?

A new study finds that average temperatures have dropped over the past century and a half | Continue reading


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The 2010s Were the Hottest Decade--The 2020s Will Top Them

By the mid-2030s, global temperatures will likely top 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels | Continue reading


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Does Social Media Cause Depression?

The answer’s not black-and-white | Continue reading


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"Birdbrain" Turns from Insult to Praise  

Some avian species use tools and can recognize themselves in the mirror. How do tiny brains pull off such big feats? | Continue reading


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The FCC's Approval of SpaceX's Starlink Mega Constellation May Have Been Unlawful

A new paper suggests that the agency broke U.S. environmental law in its approval of the satellites and that if it was sued in court, it would likely lose | Continue reading


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Poetry: Maria Sibylla Merian, January 1670

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Possible Missing Link in Alzheimer's Pathology Identified

It may open the door to new treatments and explain why previous ones failed | Continue reading


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A Chameleon City Is Built to Make Movies

Originally published in April 1915 | Continue reading


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What's Inside? Meat vs. Meatless Burgers

A look at ingredients and nutrition | Continue reading


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Johns Hopkins Scientists Give Psychedelics the Serious Treatment

The first research center of its kind in the country is bringing renewed rigor to the investigation of the drugs’ therapeutic uses | Continue reading


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Antarctic Is Ripe for Invasive Species

Mussels and crabs are two of the creatures most likely to invade Antarctica in the next 10 years, a panel of scientists say. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading


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Bacteria-Filled Bricks Build Themselves

The microorganisms transform sand and gelatin into a living construction material | Continue reading


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World's First "Living Machine" Created Using Frog Cells and Artificial Intelligence

Scientists used computer algorithms to develop a programmable organism made of frog DNA | Continue reading


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The Curious Case of Proxima C

Astronomers continue to gather evidence for a second world around the sun’s nearest neighboring star | Continue reading


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Mysterious, Dusty Objects Are Swarming the Milky Way's Core

Swirling around our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, these objects share properties with both stars and gas clouds | Continue reading


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Democratic Candidates Agree on Climate Change, Except for Role of Natural Gas

Whether to allow fracking and the use of natural gas as a transition fuel emerged as a rare point of contention in last night’s debate | Continue reading


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Can We Predict Earthquakes At All?

If we can predict hurricanes, floods, and tornados to differing degrees of reliability, why don’t we know when the next big earthquake will come? | Continue reading


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Glacial Lake Outburst Floods: A New Climate-Related Threat from Above

As the climate changes and glaciers melt, a lesser-known threat lurks in alpine areas: glacial lake outburst floods. These events happen rapidly, releasing huge amounts of water with little or no warning. Unsuspecting communities lying in the flood path can suffer serious losses. … | Continue reading


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Glacial Lake Outburst Floods: A New Climate-Related Threat From Above

As the climate changes and glaciers melt, a lesser-known threat lurks in alpine areas: glacial lake outburst floods. These events happen rapidly, releasing huge amounts of water with little or no warning. Unsuspecting communities lying in the flood path can suffer serious losses. … | Continue reading


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Tunnels Would Be Cheaper than Police

Originally published in December 1868 | Continue reading


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Diving Beetles Dramatically Take Down Tadpoles 

Insects have an outsize impact on their vertebrate prey  | Continue reading


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Will Taal Volcano Explosively Erupt? Here's What Scientists Are Watching

The seismic rumblings of the Philippines’ second most active volcano hold clues to what it might do | Continue reading


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Bacteria Helped Plants Evolve to Live on Land

Soil bacteria may have taken residence in early algae species, gifting the algae with the ability to withstand drier conditions on land. Annie Sneed reports. | Continue reading


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Astronomers Just Found (Another) Potentially Habitable Exoplanet. What Happens Next?

NASA’s TESS spacecraft identified the unusual world around a red dwarf | Continue reading


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Wildfires Could Transform Amazon from Carbon Sink to Source

Rising temperatures and increased deforestation increase the risks for CO 2 -emitting fires | Continue reading


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People's Body Systems Age at Different Rates

Individuals have an “ageotype” that’s specific to one organ system, which could be targeted in order to extend healthy life | Continue reading


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Truly Secure Voting Is on the Way

Unfortunately, it won’t be here by 2020 | Continue reading


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