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National Science Foundation Mass Firings Go Beyond Trump's Orders, Sparking Outrage

National Science Foundation Mass Firings Go Beyond Trum...

SIN Feb 21, 2025 0 9

At an emotional meeting, NSF officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of...

Microsoft Claims Quantum-Computing Breakthrough—but Some Physicists Are Skeptical

Microsoft Claims Quantum-Computing Breakthrough—but Som...

SIN Feb 20, 2025 0 7

With its ‘topological’ quantum computers, Microsoft aims to reach useful scales ...

‘City Killer’ Asteroid’s Earth Impact Risk Rises to Highest Ever Recorded

‘City Killer’ Asteroid’s Earth Impact Risk Rises to Hig...

SIN Feb 20, 2025 0 5

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 3.1 percent chance of hitting Earth, astronomers say—but...

Surprising Chimpanzee Signal Reveals Secrets of Ape Communication

Surprising Chimpanzee Signal Reveals Secrets of Ape Com...

SIN Feb 20, 2025 0 5

A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises...

Trump FEMA Firings Hit Agency Already Suffering Staffing Shortages

Trump FEMA Firings Hit Agency Already Suffering Staffin...

SIN Feb 20, 2025 0 6

After firing 200 first-year employees this weekend, FEMA was directed "to make a...

Trump’s DEI Purge Is Hitting NASA Hard

Trump’s DEI Purge Is Hitting NASA Hard

SIN Feb 20, 2025 0 7

Space scientists within NASA and outside it feel betrayed by the Trump administr...

Contributors to Scientific American’s March 2025 Issue

Contributors to Scientific American’s March 2025 Issue

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 6

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the sto...

3 More Bird Flu Infections in People as Chicken Deaths Affect Egg Industry

3 More Bird Flu Infections in People as Chicken Deaths ...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 6

Bird flu headlines include three new human cases, millions of dead birds in poul...

Carl Zimmer on His New Book Air-Borne and What Public Health Experts Learned from the COVID Pandemic

Carl Zimmer on His New Book Air-Borne and What Public H...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 4

Journalist Carl Zimmer chats about aerobiology and his new book Air-Borne: The H...

The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’

The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 8

What happens in your mind when insight strikes?

Trump’s ‘Iron Dome’ Space Weapons Plan Ignores Physics and Fiscal Reality

Trump’s ‘Iron Dome’ Space Weapons Plan Ignores Physics ...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 6

Proposed U.S. space defenses against hypersonic nuclear missiles are unnecessary...

Science Crossword: Creative Bursts

Science Crossword: Creative Bursts

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 6

Play this crossword inspired by the March 2025 issue of Scientific American

Exoplanet Census Identifies ‘Missing Planets’ Gap

Exoplanet Census Identifies ‘Missing Planets’ Gap

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 7

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range thr...

Government Agencies, Universities, Nonprofits Pause Critical Work Over Trump Administration Executive Orders

Government Agencies, Universities, Nonprofits Pause Cri...

SIN Feb 19, 2025 0 7

America's status as a global science leader is in doubt as the administration fr...

World’s Most Accurate Clocks Could Redefine Time

World’s Most Accurate Clocks Could Redefine Time

SIN Feb 18, 2025 0 8

Atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting...

Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

SIN Feb 18, 2025 0 13

Color blindness; the end of fire

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