Robotics

Remembering Margarethe Hilferding, the First Woman Admi...

Margarethe Hilferding was the first woman admitted to Sigmund Freud’s Vienna Psy...

The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake?

The hit show Severance can be refashioned as a teaching moment about certain bra...

How Sports Betting Apps Use Psychology to Keep Users Ga...

Mobile sports betting apps’ frictionless designs, personalized notifications and...

Do Chatbots Just Need More Time to ‘Think’?

A technique called “test-time compute” can improve how AI responds to some hard ...

Trump’s Revocation of Environmental Justice Order Will ...

President Trump has revoked a 1994 directive that required agencies to protect m...

The Latest on Bird Flu in Humans, Cats and Chickens

H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread amid commercial and backyard poultry, a...

My Climate Protest Arrest Shows the Problem with ‘Socia...

People hoping that progress on climate action will accelerate like sudden change...

Are Cats Actually Liquid?

A physicist weighs in on the fluid feline meme

Why Grapefruit Interferes with Medication, and What to ...

Could gene editing produce a tasty citrus fruit that doesn’t interfere with pres...

What Trump’s Executive Orders Mean for Science

After his second inauguration, President Donald Trump signed a host of executive...

Here’s What’s in ‘Stargate,’ the $500-Billion Trump-End...

Tech giants are backing a massive effort, announced by President Trump and dubbe...

Rare, Record Florida Snow Explained

A perfect confluence of an Arctic air outbreak and a low-pressure system that pu...

Earth Sings with Mysterious Chorus Waves—and Deep Space...

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space f...

Scientific American’s 10 Most Anticipated ‘Microhistori...

Scientific American's Brianne Kane can't wait to check out these fascinating dee...

Our Ears Share a Common Ancestry with Fish Gills

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the ca...

Modi’s Government Aims to Trample India’s History

Hindu nationalists are committed to turning India into a Hindu nation-state. The...

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