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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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
A pandemic micrography project -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Retrofitting older buildings with heat pumps and insulation would reduce energy costs and carbon emissions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
A related lineage’s explosive growth leaves just one descendant today -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
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Engineers achieved “a year’s work in two weeks” to safely do so -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
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
If finalized, the rules would require companies to disclose emissions associated with their consumers and suppliers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
A transparent rock experiment shows how stretchy molecules kick up eddies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Nuclear states admit to owning about 13,000 warheads, but the real number could be higher -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Low levels of bombardment reveal that the TRAPPIST-1 system probably grew quickly -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
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
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
People realized their jobs don’t have to be that way -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
A century after the Endurance sank, Antarctica is still a land of mysteries -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
A speck-sized beetle overturns assumptions about flight mechanics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
Young people and women need to be more involved in a continual process of averting armed conflict -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
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
There are no individual saviors for Tonga’s Internet infrastructure -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
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Researchers are looking to identify areas facing saltwater intrusion on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Samples collected by Chang’e-5 are revealing exciting insights into the Moon’s evolution -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Building on lessons learned from SARS-CoV-2, pandemic preparedness has taken on renewed urgency -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
The eminent astrophysicist changed the way we view our home star -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
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
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