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Could reusable rockets make solar geoengineering less risky?

Could reusable rockets make solar geoengineering less r...

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 67

Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere – but at higher altitudes than planes can...

Career Exploration: Using Ingenuity and Innovation to Create ‘Memory Metals’

Career Exploration: Using Ingenuity and Innovation to C...

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 55

Othmane Benafan is a NASA engineer whose work is literally reshaping how we use ...

NASA Welcomes Community, Astronauts to Marshall’s 65th Anniversary Celebration July 19

NASA Welcomes Community, Astronauts to Marshall’s 65th ...

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 46

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center invites the community to help celebrate the ...

From Space to Soil: How NASA Sees Forests

From Space to Soil: How NASA Sees Forests

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 54

NASA uses satellite lidar technology to study Earth’s forests, key carbon sinks.

Is It Possible to Treat Psychopathy Before It Starts?

Is It Possible to Treat Psychopathy Before It Starts?

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 53

New strategies help to reduce callous and unemotional traits in children, guidin...

Denmark Let Amateurs Dig for Treasure—And It Paid Off

Denmark Let Amateurs Dig for Treasure—And It Paid Off

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 43

The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried...

Hotter Nights after Scorching Days Threaten Heart Health and Mental Well-Being

Hotter Nights after Scorching Days Threaten Heart Healt...

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 51

When nights stay hot, more people die, many from cardiovascular problems. But th...

Readers Respond to the March 2025 Issue

Readers Respond to the March 2025 Issue

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 44

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

Scientists Find Universe’s Missing Matter in Intergalactic ‘Cosmic Fog’

Scientists Find Universe’s Missing Matter in Intergalac...

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 45

Researchers have used cosmic explosions called fast radio bursts to illuminate t...

Cryopreserved sea star larvae could enable vital species to recover

Cryopreserved sea star larvae could enable vital specie...

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 43

Sea star larvae have been stored at −200°C and thawed for the first time, a step...

Biotech firm aims to create ‘ChatGPT of biology’ – will it work?

Biotech firm aims to create ‘ChatGPT of biology’ – will...

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 67

A UK biotech firm spent years gathering genetic data that has uncovered 1 millio...

Training for the Moo(n)

Training for the Moo(n)

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 102

A curious cow watches as NASA astronauts Andre Douglas and Kate Rubins perform a...

NASA Engineers Simulate Lunar Lighting for Artemis III Moon Landing

NASA Engineers Simulate Lunar Lighting for Artemis III ...

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 40

Better understanding the lunar lighting environment will help NASA prepare astro...

Seeking Sustainable Fashion and Cracking a Greenland Mystery

Seeking Sustainable Fashion and Cracking a Greenland My...

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 41

Inside this double issue of SciAm, you’ll find black holes that burp up their st...

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Collapse Could Be Closer Than We Think

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Collapse Could Be Closer Than We ...

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 48

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwid...

Poem: ‘Prayer to Fireflies’

Poem: ‘Prayer to Fireflies’

SIN Jun 18, 2025 0 44

Science in meter and verse

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