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Should You Worry the New Chikungunya Virus Outbreak in ...

Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can get to ...

The Perseid Meteor Shower Is Peaking. Here’s How to Watch

The Perseids are the best annual meteor shower, but this year’s show will be dim...

Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Drinking Water from the Depths

Companies are experimenting with deep-sea tech to produce cheaper fresh water

Wordology: Terms from the Archive

Explore the words of science past from Scientific American

Pessimistic Dogs Are Better at Smelling Cancer—And Othe...

New research is revealing how disease-smelling dogs can excel

Rogue Worlds May Not Be So Lonely After All, NASA’s Eur...

From planets roaming space to major shifts in health funding, catch up with this...

How This AI Breakthrough with Pure Mathematics and Rein...

An artificial intelligence breakthrough uses reinforcement learning to tackle th...

Did Disease Defeat Napoleon?

Napoleon's campaign against the Russian Empire was one of the most costly wars i...

What Are Light Echoes, and Why Do They Matter?

Bizarre phenomena called light echoes create strange, shifting shapes seen in so...

AI-Designed Hydrogel Inspired by Nature Creates Ultra-S...

Today this material can seal pipes and brave the ocean. But someday it could be ...

Physicists Divided on What Quantum Mechanics Says about...

A survey of more than 1,000 physicists finds deep disagreements in what quantum ...

This Mushroom’s Incredibly Bitter Taste Is New to Science

The first analysis of mushroom bitterness reveals ultrapotent compounds

Congressman Eric Sorensen on Defending Climate Science,...

Representative Eric Sorensen of Illinois shares how his meteorology roots drive ...

Starlink and Astronomers Are in a Light Pollution Standoff

Satellite streaks are ruining astronomical images. Can scientists and space comp...

JWST Spots Possible Alien Planet at Alpha Centauri

In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to...

Students Find Hidden Fibonacci Sequence in Classic Prob...

Though the Fibonacci sequence shows up everywhere in nature, these young mathema...

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