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55 Books Scientific American Recommends in 2023

55 Books Scientific American Recommends in 2023

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The best fiction, nonfiction, history and sci-fi books Scientific American staff...

Cats Can Hide Their Pain--But Not from AI

Cats Can Hide Their Pain--But Not from AI

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Machine-learning software gets behind the inscrutable feline face and may improv...

The World Got Failing Grades on Climate Action. Here's How COP28 Aims to Fix That

The World Got Failing Grades on Climate Action. Here's ...

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The main negotiations at the COP28 climate meeting will aim to address how count...

Golden Mole That Swims through Sand Rediscovered after 86 Years

Golden Mole That Swims through Sand Rediscovered after ...

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The iridescent, blind De Winton’s golden mole was last seen in 1937 and later de...

Hair Relaxers Will Be Safer without Formaldehyde, but It's Just a Start

Hair Relaxers Will Be Safer without Formaldehyde, but I...

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Banning formaldehyde hair relaxers might help protect Black women’s health, but ...

How Cryptographic 'Secret Sharing' Can Keep Information Safe

How Cryptographic 'Secret Sharing' Can Keep Information...

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One safe, five sons and betrayal: this principle shows how shared knowledge can ...

The Same Extremists Target Both Muslims and Jews

The Same Extremists Target Both Muslims and Jews

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Far-right extremists shifted their online hate from Muslims to Jews in 2017, and...

U.S. Drinking-Water Systems Still Haven't Defeated This Nasty Parasite

U.S. Drinking-Water Systems Still Haven't Defeated This...

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The U.S.’s largest-ever outbreak of waterborne illness—cryptosporidiosis—hit Mil...

AI's Climate Impact Goes beyond Its Emissions

AI's Climate Impact Goes beyond Its Emissions

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To understand how AI is contributing to climate change, look at the way it’s bei...

A Good Night's Sleep May Help Control Blood Sugar

A Good Night's Sleep May Help Control Blood Sugar

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Brain waves during sleep influence glucose and insulin, offering new insights in...

Your Organs Might Be Aging at Different Rates

Your Organs Might Be Aging at Different Rates

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It turns out that your chronological age really is just a number. What’s more im...

Unless We Cut Emissions, Ice Sheets, Forests and Ocean Currents Are Headed for Catastrophe

Unless We Cut Emissions, Ice Sheets, Forests and Ocean ...

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Hundreds of scientists warn that the world must rapidly phase out planet-warming...

A Small Town Waits for a Dark Matter Gold Rush

A Small Town Waits for a Dark Matter Gold Rush

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A mining town waits for economic recovery while physicists under their feet wait...

These Researchers Put Sperm Through a Kind of 'Hunger Games'

These Researchers Put Sperm Through a Kind of 'Hunger G...

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The research focused on figuring out what enables certain sperm to gain some com...

How Quantum Math Theory Turned into a Jazz Concert

How Quantum Math Theory Turned into a Jazz Concert

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A mathematician and a musician collaborated to turn a quantum research paper int...

The Vaginal Microbiome May Affect Health More than We Thought

The Vaginal Microbiome May Affect Health More than We T...

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A recent study finds varying combinations of microbes in the vaginal microbiome ...

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