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The Famine Developing in Gaza Follows a Clear Pattern

Famine is affecting an increasing number of people in Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and els...

Wild Orangutan Uses Herbal Medicine to Treat His Wound

Researchers say this may be the first observation of a nonhuman animal purposefu...

Is Sleeping on the Floor Good for Your Back?

Scientific American asked experts whether sleeping on a hard surface is actually...

Repression draws attention to campus protests, like tho...

Repression draws attention to campus protests and makes them grow

AI Is Helping Referee Games in Major Sports Leagues, bu...

Basketball, baseball, tennis and soccer leagues are starting to use AI to help c...

How Some Common Medications Can Make People More Vulner...

As climate change brings more intense heat waves, scientists are trying to under...

3 Ways Scientific Thinking Could Help Save the World

A physicist, a philosopher and a psychologist are working together to bring bett...

Longest-Ever COVID Infection Lasted More Than 600 Days

A Dutch man with lymphoma and other blood disorders was infected with the COVID-...

Meteorites in Antarctica Are Getting Harder to Find bec...

As climate change warms the poles, precious Antarctic meteorites will melt their...

China’s Population Could Shrink to Half by 2100

Is China’s future population drop a crisis or an opportunity?

Exercise Helps Your Brain as Much as Your Body

Instead of just asking questions about how exercise helps our bodies, let’s also...

Chatbots Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Scientific Publishing

One percent of scientific articles published in 2023 showed signs of generative ...

Can Food Work as Medicine?

Doctors are starting to prescribe vegetables or entire meals to ward off disease.

U.S. Needs to Better Track Bird Flu Spread in Farm Anim...

Four years after a mysterious respiratory virus jumped from animals into humans ...

How Do We Know Anything For Certain?

Some practical advice for how to sit, happily, joyfully, with uncertainty—and in...

Wealthy Nations Agree to 2035 Deadline for Ending Coal ...

The G7 group of wealthy, developed economies has agreed to phase out coal-fired ...

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