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The Universe’s First Light Could Reveal Secrets of the ...

A new generation of telescopes could peer back to the earliest epochs of the uni...

Surprising Ways That Sunlight Might Heal Autoimmune Dis...

Sunshine may hold healing rays for a variety of autoimmune diseases such as mult...

Contributors to Scientific American’s June 2025 Issue

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the sto...

Why Mitochondria Are More like a Motherboard Than the P...

When these energy-giving organelles thrive, so do we

Larger, More Dangerous Hail Is Becoming More Common—Her...

The largest hail tends to form in “supercell” thunderstorms and seems to be beco...

The End of the Universe Could Begin with a Quantum Bubble

A freak particle physics process could wipe out all galaxies and life—but it’s w...

What Is the International Space Station? (Grades 5-8)

This article is for students grades 5-8. The International Space Station is a la...

Ancient Maltese temples may have been schools for celes...

The alignment of some megalithic temples in Malta suggests they may have been us...

Unearthly Plumbing Required for Plant Watering in Space

NASA is demonstrating new microgravity fluids technologies to enable advanced “n...

Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant...

Huge Reservoirs of Clean Hydrogen Could Power Earth for...

Recent breakthroughs suggest that hydrogen reservoirs are buried in countless re...

Murderbot's Cyborg Brain Explained by Neuroscience

What would it take to create a cyborg brain like the one in the new TV show Murd...

Sea level will rise fast even if we limit global warmin...

Satellite observations show the ice sheets are melting faster than expected, and...

Astronomers double down on claim of strongest evidence ...

Are there aliens living on the exoplanet K2-18b? Some astronomers believe they h...

Andrea Harrington’s Vision Paves the Way for Lunar Miss...

When future astronauts set foot on Mars, they will stand on decades of scientifi...

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for me...

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which me...

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