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How Science Can Defeat Witchcraft Fears in Papua New Gu...

Belief in witchcraft and sorcery is deeply rooted in Papua New Guinea's culture ...

Superhuman AI Bots Are Surprisingly Vulnerable to Exploits

By learning exploits from adversarial AI, people could defeat a superhuman Go-pl...

The Supreme Court Threw Us—and the Chevron Deference—Ov...

A case about Atlantic herring has resulted in SCOTUS ending a 40-year policy to ...

This Equation Shows That the Universe Will Run out of S...

The cosmos is dark. The Lilly-Madau diagram reveals that it will become much dar...

Gen X Faces Higher Cancer Rates Than Any Previous Gener...

Researchers are investigating changes in cancer risks among young people as new ...

The Supreme Court’s Contempt for Facts Is a Betrayal of...

The Supreme Court majority’s recent decisions about homelessness, public health ...

5 New Types of Gravitational-Wave Detectors Could Resha...

With the confirmation of gravitational waves less than a decade old, scientists ...

Europe’s New Ariane 6 Rocket Launches at Last

Europe rejoins the new space race with the launch of its long-awaited Ariane 6 r...

Floods Are Destroying Roads and Buildings. The White Ho...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is requiring any construction project it...

Przewalski’s Horses Are Back—On TikTok and the Central ...

Claims that Przewalski’s horses were discovered in the U.S. are unverified. But ...

Heat Waves Can Buckle Train Tracks, Delaying Commutes a...

Extreme heat can cause train tracks to expand and buckle. That’s forcing rail op...

PMDD Is a Menstrual Disorder Much More Severe than PMS

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a condition triggered by hormonal changes tha...

We Indulged Our Child During COVID Lockdown. Did That C...

During the lockdown phase of the COVID pandemic, we indulged our toddler son. Ye...

How Drones Are Revolutionizing Search and Rescue

As drones get less expensive and computer vision systems improve, rescuers are g...

We’re Not Asking the Right Question to Solve the Overdo...

Drug policy continues to fixate on symptoms rather than the actual disease

The Head of NASA Science Spent a Whole Weekend Building...

Scientific American sat down with Nicola Fox, head of NASA science, to talk abou...

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