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What Vitamins and Minerals Really Do in Your Body

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Antarctic Ice Hides 40-Million-Year-Old River System

Beneath the Antarctic ice, scientists find remnants of a giant river system that...

Satellite Mega Constellations Could Jeopardize Ozone-Ho...

Pollution from skyrocketing numbers of satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphe...

Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic ...

An emerging science of advanced meditation could transform mental health and our...

Highly Invasive Spotted Lanternflies May Have a Surpris...

Spotted lanternflies are sometimes drawn to power line vibrations—and scientists...

Teens’ Mental Health May Improve When They Help Others

Volunteering in community programs can reduce youth depression and anxiety, rese...

How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dam...

Better predictions of how cracks grow can make machines and structures more reli...

New Understandings of Food, Fat, Fitness and Evolution

Quantum observers, migrating mangroves, the deep history of an asteroid and unde...

Contributors to Scientific American’s July/August 2024 ...

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Poem: ‘An Ars Poetica’

Science in meter and verse

Book Review: Why People Collect Trees and You Should, Too

A new book about tree collectors shows how arboreal curation is an outlet for ar...

People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Underst...

“Heavy and healthy” can be a rare or common condition. But either way it may sig...

Mangrove Trees Are on the Move, Taking the Tropics with...

As the climate warms, mangroves are migrating farther poleward, transforming the...

How to Stay Safe during Lightning Storms

Each year in the U.S. lightning strikes 37 million times and kills 21 people on ...

How Earth Went from a Sterile Rock to a Lush, Living Pl...

From microbes to mammoths, life has transformed Earth into one big living system...

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