Science, Finally, Has a Good Idea About Why We Stutter

A glitch in speech initiation gives rise to the repetition that characterizes stuttering. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Troubled U.S. Neutrino Project Faces Uncertain Future--and Fresh Opportunities

A new two–phase approach to building the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment ignites controversy among particle physicists -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Some Medical Ethicists Endorse NFTs--Here's Why

The technology could help patients exert control over their medical data -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Spy Satellites Confirmed Our Discovery of the First Meteor from beyond the Solar System

A high–speed fireball that struck Earth in 2014 looked to be interstellar in origin, but verifying this extraordinary claim required extraordinary cooperation from secretive defense programs -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Spy Satellites Confirmed Our Discovery of the First Meteor from beyond the Solar System

A high-speed fireball that struck Earth in 2014 looked to be interstellar in origin, but verifying this extraordinary claim required extraordinary cooperation from secretive defense programs -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast

In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Climate Litigation Boosted by IPCC Report

The report says lawsuits filed against governments and fossil fuel companies have the potential to influence climate policy -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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SpaceX's Starship and NASA's SLS Could Supercharge Space Science

Scientists are beginning to dream of how a new generation of super heavy-lift rockets might enable revolutionary space telescopes and bigger, bolder interplanetary missions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Roadkill Literally 'Drives' Some Species to Extinction

Citizen scientists have stepped up to reveal just how much fauna is flattened on the world’s roads -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Scientists Risk Arrest to Demand Climate Action

A growing international movement called Scientist Rebellion calls on world leaders to end the burning of fossil fuels -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Jerusalem Archaeology Modernizes but Runs into Ancient Problems

A new generation of scholars working in the Holy Land remain haunted by scripture and riven by modern politics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Astronomers Spot Most Distant Galaxy Yet, 13.5 Billion Light-Years from Earth

The surprisingly bright galaxy, called HD1, may contain some of the universe’s first stars as well as a supermassive black hole -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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This Tiny Tube Is Why Grass Is Everywhere

New work shows how grass could have developed its distinctive sheath -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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The Father of Modern Neuroscience Discovered the Basic Unit of the Nervous System

Modern brain science as we know it began with the work of a scientist whose creative thought sprang from memories of a childhood spent in the preindustrial Spanish countryside -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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How Junk Science is Being Used against Trans Kids

This researcher has been studying the history of Trans kids for years. Here’s what you need to know. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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How Junk Science is Being Used Against Trans Kids

This researcher has been studying the history of Trans kids for years. Here’s what you need to know. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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How Junk Science is Being Used Against Trans Kids

This researcher has been studying the history of Trans kids for years. Here’s what you need to know. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

How Junk Science is Being Used Against Trans Kids

This researcher has been studying the history of Trans kids for years. Here’s what you need to know. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Ax-1, First Private Crewed Space Station Mission, Launches Successfully

Axiom Space’s visit to the International Space Station is a milestone for commercial human spaceflight -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Digital Earth "Twins" Could Help Address Climate Change

Researchers hope they could one day be used as a routine clinical tool by physicians -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Your Brain Expands and Shrinks over Time: These Charts Show How

Researchers hope they could one day be used as a routine clinical tool by physicians. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Probiotics Could Help Save Overheated Coral

Think of it as a kind of marine fecal transplant—except the restorative bacteria do not come from stool, they come from other corals. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

COVID Vaccines Plus Infection can Lead to Months of Immunity

New research counters high-profile claims that people who had COVID don’t benefit from vaccination. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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India's Inadvertent Missile Launch Underscores the Risk of Accidental Nuclear Warfare

Complex weapon systems are inherently prone to accidents, and this latest launch is one of a long history of military accidents in India -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Ancient Molecule Helps Bacteria Untangle Genetic Activity

New studies reveal the complex world of bacterial epigenetics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Elementary Particle's Unexpected Heft Stuns Physicists

A new analysis by the CDF collaboration is a bolt from the blue, finding that the W boson is significantly heavier than suggested by previous measurements and theoretical prediction -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

New IPCC Report Looks at Neglected Element of Climate Action: People

For the first time, the report includes a chapter devoted to the social aspects of climate mitigation -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed

Klára Dán von Neumann arrives in Princeton, N.J., just as war breaks out in Europe -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Colonialism Casts a Shadow on Fossil Science

Paleontologists from a small number of countries control much of the world’s fossil data -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

We Need Better Diagnostic Tests for Autism in Women

Diagnostic criteria are developed using white boys and men, failing to serve many neurodivergent girls and women -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Poem: 'Schrödinger's Cat'

Science in meter and verse -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Most States Are Failing on Building Codes, FEMA Says

Thirty-nine states received the agency’s lowest score, including many of the most disaster-prone -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Will Russia Use Chemical Weapons in Ukraine? Researchers Evaluate the Risks

Analysts explain why some fear that the Russian military will use chemical weapons—and how the world would know if it did -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

Climate Report Offers Some Hope, But the Need for Action Is Urgent

Sustained emissions reductions and the rapidly dropping costs of renewables were some positive notes in the latest IPCC installment -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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New 'Ionogels' Are Tough, Stretchable and Easy to Make

They could find use as protective material, 3-D printer “ink” or longer-lasting batteries -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

Why We Must Protect Voting Rights

Evidence shows they boost suffrage, not fraud -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Birds Make Better Bipedal Bots Than Humans Do

A new machine called BirdBot balances walking efficiency and speed -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

50, 100 &150 Years Ago: April 2022

Wanted: lard oil and asbestos -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI

To tackle the climate crisis, artificial intelligence is becoming more open and democratic -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

Swarms of Black Holes at the Milky Way's Heart? Maybe Not

Revisiting a controversial claim, astronomers are laying bare deep uncertainties about our understanding of galactic centers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

Carbon Removal 'Unavoidable' as Climate Dangers Grow, New IPCC Report Says

But if the world relies too heavily on this strategy, it could risk overshooting targets to limit warming -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

The History of the Milky Way Comes Into Focus

By dating nearly a quarter million stars, astronomers were able to reconstruct the history of our galaxy—and they say it has lived an "enormously sheltered life." -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

A Wave of New Cancer Treatments Challenges Community Oncologists to Keep Up

Partnerships with top research centers, along with advanced technology, may help local doctors offer patients the latest therapies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

Math in 3-D: Q&A with Abel Prize Winner Dennis Sullivan

His groundbreaking work combined the mathematical field of topology with string theory -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

Science News Briefs from around the World: April 2022

In case you missed it -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

Little Snow Is Left in California, Setting Up a Dangerous Wildfire Season

As of April 1, statewide snowpack stood at just 38 percent of the average for that date -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

The U.S. Must Take Responsibility for Nuclear Fallout in the Marshall Islands

Congress needs to fund independent research on radioactive contamination and how to clean it up -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 2 years ago

Are Telescopes the Only Way to Find Dark Matter?

If the invisible matter does not appear in experiments or particle colliders, we may have to find it in space -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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