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Bacteria Make Decisions Based on Generational Memories

Bacteria Make Decisions Based on Generational Memories

SIN Jan 29, 2024 0 2

Bacteria choose to swarm based on what happened to their great-grandparents

Layer of graphene could help protect statues and paintings from damage

Layer of graphene could help protect statues and painti...

SIN Jan 29, 2024 0 22

Covering paintings with very thin layers of graphene, or mixing graphene-derived...

Japan's SLIM moon lander regains power nine days after botched landing

Japan's SLIM moon lander regains power nine days after ...

SIN Jan 29, 2024 0 3

SLIM was put into hibernation after landing on the moon upside down, but it woke...

Heating and cooling are fundamentally different, not opposites

Heating and cooling are fundamentally different, not op...

SIN Jan 29, 2024 0 2

Conventional thermodynamics says that heating and cooling are essentially mirror...

The Troubling Mysteries at the Heart of Nuclear Bombs

The Troubling Mysteries at the Heart of Nuclear Bombs

SIN Jan 28, 2024 0 1

Plutonium-pit secrets, growing up in parallel universes, the strange aftermath o...

Science News Briefs from around the World: February 2024

Science News Briefs from around the World: February 2024

SIN Jan 28, 2024 0 3

A missing mammal rediscovered in Indonesia, a speedy new species of dinosaur in ...

Environmental Protection Does Not Kill Jobs

Environmental Protection Does Not Kill Jobs

SIN Jan 28, 2024 0 2

The argument that we have to choose between saving nature and strengthening the ...

Puns, Pranks and Puerile Humor: Silly Stories about Serious Science

Puns, Pranks and Puerile Humor: Silly Stories about Ser...

SIN Jan 28, 2024 0 1

Seventy-one essays of science trivia, from duck penises to hangover myths

Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems--Simple Cells Can Do It

Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and S...

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 4

Tiny clumps of cells show basic cognitive abilities, and some animals can rememb...

Readers Respond to the October 2023 Issue

Readers Respond to the October 2023 Issue

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 24

Letters to the editors for the October 2023 issue of Scientific American

How to Save Indigenous Languages

How to Save Indigenous Languages

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 3

From Papua New Guinea to the Andaman Islands, Indigenous languages are under thr...

NASA Awards Contract for Aviation, Railroad Safety Repo...

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 2

NASA has awarded a contract to Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. of McLean, Virginia, for...

NASA Offers Virtual Activities for Northrop Grumman’s Next Resupply Mission

NASA Offers Virtual Activities for Northrop Grumman’s N...

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 3

NASA invites the public to participate in virtual activities ahead of the launch...

The Roman Empire's Worst Plagues Were Linked to Climate Change

The Roman Empire's Worst Plagues Were Linked to Climate...

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 3

Changes in the climate may have caused disruptions to Roman society that manifes...

Plagues that shook the Roman Empire linked to cold, dry periods

Plagues that shook the Roman Empire linked to cold, dry...

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 2

A study reconstructing the climate of Italy during the Roman Empire based on mar...

Patch with octopus-like suckers helps drugs penetrate the skin

Patch with octopus-like suckers helps drugs penetrate t...

SIN Jan 27, 2024 0 3

A rubbery patch studded with suction cups that imitate the suckers on octopus li...

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