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Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate

Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing envir...

What Made This Bizarre ‘Dandelion’ Supernova?

A strange supernova remnant first appeared as a “guest star” seen in 1181 by sky...

Why Election Polling Has Become Less Reliable

Election polls are increasingly vulnerable to huge mistakes

How to Make Your Own Zoetrope

Put your own spin on a zoetrope with homemade drawings—or carve one into a pumpkin

The Climate and the Health of our Children Is on the Ba...

The 2024 presidential election will have enormous consequences for the climate, ...

A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones from se...

Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found...

Why NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Make ‘Most Colorful’ Co...

The space telescope will detect over 100 colors from hundreds of millions of sta...

‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy...

Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the t...

Artemis I Moon Tree Stewards

Artemis I Moon Tree seedlings continue to find new homes with schools, museums, ...

Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibration...

An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by...

The Universe in 100 Colors Provides a Stunning Tour thr...

A science photo book probes the colors we can see—and even “forbidden” colors we...

Is Election Anxiety Keeping You Awake? Sleep Experts Sh...

Scientific American staff and sleep experts share advice on how to get better sl...

Does the Coriolis Effect Cause Your Cowlick?

No, but the direction of our hair whorls could teach us about human development

Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works...

The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that illiterate primates could write great li...

Simple fix could make US census more accurate but just ...

The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep person...

Simple fix could make the census more accurate but just...

The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep person...

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