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You can thank yeast and bacteria cultivated over generations for the distinctive...

Where Does the Solar System End?

The solar system’s outer limits aren’t as clear-cut as you might think

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Introducing Science Quickly’s New Host, Rachel Feltman

Stay tuned for a new era of Science Quickly.

The Unequal Burden of Early Dementia on Black Americans...

Black Americans face higher hurdles in diagnosis and treatment of frontotemporal...

The Poetic Lives of Lost Women of Math and Science

When poet Jessy Randall saw that so many female scientists weren’t getting their...

The Science of ‘3 Body Problem’: What’s Fact and What’s...

The hit sci-fi show’s adviser and two other researchers discuss its portrayal of...

The Famine Developing in Gaza Follows a Clear Pattern

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

Collapsing Sheets of Spacetime Could Explain Dark Matte...

Domain walls, long a divisive topic in physics, may be ideal explanations for so...

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...

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

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

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

Repression draws attention to campus protests and makes them grow

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

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

Longest-Ever COVID Infection Lasted More Than 600 Days

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

3 Ways Scientific Thinking Could Help Save the World

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

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