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October 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

October 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Year...

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 67

Charming quarks; the first Batman signal

Dead Trees Hide a Complex World Crucial to Forest Ecology and Climate

Dead Trees Hide a Complex World Crucial to Forest Ecolo...

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 42

Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 ye...

The Quiet Demise of Breakthrough Starshot, a Billionaire’s Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri

The Quiet Demise of Breakthrough Starshot, a Billionair...

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 50

An abandoned plan to visit another star highlights the perils of billionaire-fun...

Readers Respond to the May 2025 Issue

Readers Respond to the May 2025 Issue

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 31

Letters to the editors for the May 2025 issue of Scientific American

Good immune health may come at the expense of chronic inflammation

Good immune health may come at the expense of chronic i...

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 47

Inflammation is a vital part of the immune response, but it seems that the syste...

Lunar missions may contaminate the moon with hardy Earth microbes

Lunar missions may contaminate the moon with hardy Eart...

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 55

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could su...

CDC Panel to Review Childhood Vaccines: What's at Stake

CDC Panel to Review Childhood Vaccines: What's at Stake

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 42

What to know about the three shots under scrutiny by RFK Jr’s advisers and the d...

The oldest human mummies were slowly smoked 14,000 years ago

The oldest human mummies were slowly smoked 14,000 year...

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 55

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully pr...

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Space Weather Missions

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Space Weather Missions

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 46

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for an observ...

NASA Awards Safety, Mission Assurance Services Contract

NASA Awards Safety, Mission Assurance Services Contract

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 37

NASA has selected Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston to provide safety and mis...

Nixing Daylight Saving Time May Lower Risk of Obesity and Stroke

Nixing Daylight Saving Time May Lower Risk of Obesity a...

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 38

A new study suggests that permanent standard time may reduce obesity and stroke

Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth's today

Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth...

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 49

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had...

Modular nuclear reactors sound great, but won't be ready any time soon

Modular nuclear reactors sound great, but won't be read...

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 46

The UK government has announced a raft of tiny nuclear power projects, while Rus...

Most Countries Are Reducing Deaths from Heart Disease, Cancer and Diabetes

Most Countries Are Reducing Deaths from Heart Disease, ...

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 61

A report finds that death rates from cancer and heart disease have declined sinc...

Covid-19 vaccine benefits worth up to $38 trillion in first year alone

Covid-19 vaccine benefits worth up to $38 trillion in f...

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 49

The global health and economic benefits of covid-19 vaccines came to between $5 ...

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4655-4660: Boxworks With a View

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4655-4660: Boxworks With a View

SIN Sep 16, 2025 0 35

Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National ...

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