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Ice melt in the mountain range today is twice as fast as it was before 2000, once-secret images show | Continue reading
A new rule for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows states to set their own limits on carbon-emissions levels | Continue reading
Fish are high in omega-3 fatty acids. But what if you can't eat seafood? Can omega-3 enriched eggs or peanut butter provide the same health benefits? | Continue reading
Just two Y chromosomes exist in a huge population of U.S. Holsteins; researchers want to know what traits have been lost | Continue reading
A click-and-drag version of a common intelligence assessment more closely resembles real problem-solving | Continue reading
At Scientific American 's third Science on the Hill event, experts from academia and the private sector met at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill to talk with Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Mariette DiChristina about solutions to our plethora of plastics probl … | Continue reading
Louisiana and Texas accounted for half the money paid out by the National Flood Insurance Program since 1973 | Continue reading
Projects will probe topics including DNA mutation, fire behaviour and the birth of stars | Continue reading
Breakthrough demonstrations using defective diamonds, high-flying drones, laser-bathed crystals and other exotica suggest practical, unhackable quantum networks are within reach | Continue reading
Water plus rocks equal weird things – sometimes. Itacolumite is a rare sandstone riddled with tiny holes, leaving interlocking bits of mineral. | Continue reading
The bacteria, which normally live in warmer waters, have caused infections in waters near Delaware and New Jersey | Continue reading
If greenhouse gases are not curbed, 60 percent of the world will set monthly records by century’s end | Continue reading
Modern satellite imagery and 3-D modeling give us a new view of how Apollo 11 played out | Continue reading
Half a century after Apollo 11 , we remember how we achieved the impossible and why we need to do it again | Continue reading
Whether your graduation is coming up or twenty years behind you, we all have moments when we wonder whether we’re cut out for this adulthood thing | Continue reading
Confronting climate change, cultures with intensive, specialized land use were vulnerable. Those that endured cultivated multiple crops and helped edible rainforest species prosper | Continue reading
A monitoring device could measure overall power consumption and identify critical malfunctions | Continue reading
Two monkey species who last shared a common ancestor 3 million years ago have "eerily similar" alarm calls. | Continue reading
What is insulin and how do our bodies use it? | Continue reading
Wolves lack the muscles that allow dogs to raise their eyebrows and make puppy dog eyes | Continue reading
More efficient appliances and stricter building codes have driven significant declines in U.S. emissions to date | Continue reading
First gene associated with cannabis abuse likely affects how people respond to the drug | Continue reading
A German–Russian mission called SRG will detect millions of supermassive black holes, many new to science, and hundreds of thousands of stars | Continue reading
It could lead to drones that fly like bats | Continue reading
Advisory panel says US National Institutes of Health should treat sexual harassment more seriously and do more to help affected researchers | Continue reading
Researchers have teased out the aromas associated with a rainstorm and deciphered the olfactory messages they convey | Continue reading
A study in mice shows improved cognitive performance when these bursting signals move around memory circuits | Continue reading
The Defense Department recognizes the risks posed by climate change, but needs to do more to protect its facilities | Continue reading
Scientific American spoke with Scott Kelly about the hardships of life in zero gravity and what it was like coming back to Earth | Continue reading
People appear to consume between 74,000 and 121,000 microplastic particles annually, and that's probably a gross underestimate. | Continue reading
Cracking the nut’s “cyanide problem” could make it easier to cultivate sweeter varieties of this ancient snack | Continue reading
Prices on carbon are not strict enough to make significant dents in emissions | Continue reading
Ancient site points to weed’s role in burial rites | Continue reading
Recovering “ghost creeks” from past landscapes can help protect the city’s future amid climate chaos | Continue reading
At the third Scientific American “Science Meets Congress” event, “Solving the Plastic Waste Problem”, experts examined the question of biodegradability. | Continue reading
Ancient site points to weed’s role in burial rites | Continue reading
Much like Earth’s seas, the subsurface ocean of this icy moon of Jupiter contains sodium chloride, the main ingredient of table salt | Continue reading
Critics of the Trump administration move point to errors in the agency’s analysis | Continue reading
Once a water-rich Eden, the hellish planet could reveal how to find habitable worlds around distant stars | Continue reading
Nightmarish spherical videos, shot from the center of an inferno, demonstrate how they spread | Continue reading
The annual survey of worldwide fitness trends is now in its 13th year | Continue reading
The proposal follows a Chinese scientist who claimed to have created twins from edited embryos last year | Continue reading
Robotic floats and elephant seals helped solve the mystery of the formation of features called polynyas | Continue reading
Immunization reduces the likelihood of a painful reemergence of the virus in kids | Continue reading