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Efforts to Slow Climate Change Could Inadvertently Crea...

In promoting renewable energy, wealthier nations could worsen health, housing an...

Your Guide to the COP28 Climate Meeting in Dubai

The COP28 climate summit in Dubai has begun. Here’s how to understand the negoti...

This Molecule Is a Nanoscale Bulldozer

Researchers discovered that a heart-shaped molecule will jump in straight lines ...

December 2023: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Yea...

Black hole sun; the deepest mine

Scientists Sequence DNA from a 3,000-Year-Old Brick

A chunk of a Mesopotamian palace revealed genes from dozens of ancient plants

Understanding Consciousness Is Key to Unlocking Secrets...

The quest to understand our physical universe may depend on investigating our ow...

Long COVID Rates Appear to Be Decreasing

Here’s why Long COVID may be declining and what we know about the trend so far

The Oldest Deep-Sea Fish Discovered in Fossil Traces

Ancient fish followed prey into the crushing pressures of the deep ocean

Readers Respond to the July/August 2023 Issue

Letters to the editors for the July/August 2023 issue of Scientific American

These Male Stick Insects Aren't 'Errors' After All

Some female stick insects can reproduce without males—but they have a secret

How Forest Mythology Leads to Preservation--And Plunder

The powerful symbolism of forests, an AI that struggles to optimize the life of ...

Zapping Plastic Waste Can Produce Clean Fuel

Can waste plastic can be converted into hydrogen gas and a type of graphene—at a...

Autoimmunity Has Reached Epidemic Levels. We Need Urgen...

Environment and lifestyle changes have increased the prevalence of autoimmune di...

5 of the Greatest Natural History Hoaxes of All Time

These historical forgeries show what makes misinformation so successful

New Microwave Weapons Could Defend against Swarms of Co...

The Pentagon is readying high-powered microwave weapons that are capable of invi...

Stuffy Noses Are Miserable. These Nasal Congestion Trea...

Snotty, stuffy noses are the hallmark of cold and flu season, but some medicatio...

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