5,000 Exoplanets! NASA Confirms a Cosmic Milestone

Three decades after it began, the exoplanet revolution shows no sign of slowing down -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Women Are Creating a New Culture for Astronomy

A new generation of scientists are challenging the biased, hierarchical status quo -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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The U.S. Will Increase Natural Gas Exports to Europe to Replace Russian Fuel

Biden administration officials are also promising to accelerate the build-out of hydrogen and carbon capture -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Lost Genes Explain Vampire Bats' Diet of Blood

To survive on nutrient-poor blood, less can sometimes be more -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Does This Look Like a Face to You?

Science—and experience—show that we most definitely see faces in inanimate objects, but new research finds that more often than not, we perceive those illusory faces... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Blind Eel and Nearly Transparent Fish Discovered in 2021

With around a third of freshwater fish facing extinction, ichthyologists are racing to discover more—including the 200 species found last year—before they disappear -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Urban Evolution: How Species Adapt to Survive in Cities

Evolution in cities illuminates longstanding scientific questions and climate change futures -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Poem: Other Worlds in Haiku

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


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Giant Rotten-Smelling Parasite Flower Rafflesia Evokes Host Defenses

A host plant’s survival may depend on powerful chemicals swimming in its vines -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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The U.S. and Europe Are Looking for a Path to Cut Russian Fuel

“Our climate goals may well be another victim of Russia’s aggression,” says Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Soars on 22nd Red Planet Flight

The aircraft’s sorties are helping NASA’s Perseverance rover scout a path into an ancient Martian river delta -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Earth's Sonic Diversity, Secret Bird Scents, Pandemic-Inspired Sci-Fi, and More

Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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COVID Is Here to Stay

How do we live with it? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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COVID Is Here to Stay

How do we live with it? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Pamplona Bull Runs Reveal Dynamics of Crowds in Danger

Thousands running alongside bulls in Spain speed up as density increases -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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A Stunning Image Shows Stars Aligned for the James Webb Space Telescope

With its mirrors now focused, the observatory’s science instruments are now being readied for work -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Some Good News About Corals and Climate Change

A nearly two-year-long study of Hawaiian corals suggests some species may be better equipped to handle warmer, more acidic waters than previously believed. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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See Crystals Form a Mesmerizing World of Microscopic Landscapes

A pandemic micrography project -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Public Housing to Receive Efficiency Upgrades as Part of Energy Department Experiment

Retrofitting older buildings with heat pumps and insulation would reduce energy costs and carbon emissions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Snakes' and Lizards' Slow and Steady Evolution Won the Race

A related lineage’s explosive growth leaves just one descendant today -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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A High-Speed Scientific Hive Mind Emerged from the COVID Pandemic

The pandemic pushed researchers into new forms of rapid communication and collaboration -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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How Ukraine Unplugged from Russia and Joined Europe's Power Grid with Unprecedented Speed

Engineers achieved “a year’s work in two weeks” to safely do so -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Supersized Goldfish Could Become Superinvaders

The fish—some of which have grown up to three pounds—could thrive in the conditions expected with climate change -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Proposed SEC Climate Rules Have Sparked a Fight over Indirect Emissions

If finalized, the rules would require companies to disclose emissions associated with their consumers and suppliers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Why Some Fluids Flow Slower when Pushed Harder

A transparent rock experiment shows how stretchy molecules kick up eddies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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How Many Nuclear Weapons Exist, and Who Has Them?

Nuclear states admit to owning about 13,000 warheads, but the real number could be higher -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Cosmic Collisions Yield Clues about Exoplanet Formation

Low levels of bombardment reveal that the TRAPPIST-1 system probably grew quickly -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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A Natural Disaster Made Monkeys Age Faster

A large colony may provide clues about the biology of traumatic stress resulting from climate change and war -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Vaccines Remain Effective against BA.2, but Protection from Infection Wanes over Time

Such protection declines within months of the mRNA COVID vaccines’ third dose. Yet the vaccines continue to ward off severe disease -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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COVID Changed the World of Work Forever

People realized their jobs don’t have to be that way -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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How Antarctica Has Changed Since Shackleton's 1915 Shipwreck

A century after the Endurance sank, Antarctica is still a land of mysteries -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Tiny Flier 'Swims' through the Air at Superspeed

A speck-sized beetle overturns assumptions about flight mechanics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Where Is Russia's Cyberwar? Researchers Decipher Its Strategy

When Russia invaded Ukraine, many analysts expected an unprecedented level of cyberattacks—which so far haven’t materialized -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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What Quantum Mechanics Can Teach Us about Abortion

As light can exist as both a particle and a wave, an abortion provider can honor birth and fight for a person’s right to give birth when it’s right for them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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The Evolving Quest for a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics

More than 50 years after the seeds of a vast collection of mathematical ideas called the Langlands program began to sprout, surprising new findings are emerging -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Florida Gets Kids and Vaccines Wrong, and Ukraine's Health Crisis: COVID Quickly, Episode 26

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything i … | Continue reading


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To Help Tackle Climate Crisis, White House Touts Nuclear Fusion

Gina McCarthy and other administration officials showcased fusion energy in a bid to accelerate vast amounts of carbon-free power -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Are 'COVID Toes' Actually Caused by the Coronavirus?

Study adds to evidence suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 infection doesn’t cause an inflamed-toe condition called chilblains, but it doesn’t close the door -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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How Do We End Wars? A Peace Researcher Puts Forward Some Innovative Approaches

Young people and women need to be more involved in a continual process of averting armed conflict -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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How Investigators Use Online Evidence to Expose Possible War Crimes

Researchers at the investigative collective Bellingcat scoured the Internet to verify the brutal use of cluster munitions in Ukraine -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Starlink Offers Internet Access in Times of Crisis, but Is It Just a PR Stunt?

There are no individual saviors for Tonga’s Internet infrastructure -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent? Let's Sleep on It

Scientists are less enthusiastic than the U.S. Senate about DST year-round -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Where Rising Seas Threaten Drinking Water, Scientists Look for Affordable Solutions

Researchers are looking to identify areas facing saltwater intrusion on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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China's First Moon Rocks Ignite Research Bonanza

Samples collected by Chang’e-5 are revealing exciting insights into the Moon’s evolution -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Hard-Won Pandemic Gains

Building on lessons learned from SARS-CoV-2, pandemic preparedness has taken on renewed urgency -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Eugene Parker, Namesake of NASA's Sun-Touching Spacecraft, Dies at Age 94

The eminent astrophysicist changed the way we view our home star -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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A Small Cut in World Military Spending Could Help Fund Climate, Health and Poverty Solutions

International cooperation could stem and redirect some of the $2 trillion the world wastes each year in the global arms race -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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Where Are Genitals Represented in the Brain?

The homunculus of textbook fame still does not take into account the relevant locations in the cerebral cortex that process touch for the sex organs -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading


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