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Miners Are Pulling Valuable Metals from the Seafloor, and Almost No One Knows about It

Miners Are Pulling Valuable Metals from the Seafloor, a...

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 13

The owners of a controversial mining license have begun extracting valuable meta...

A New Bee Crisis Could Make Your Food Scarce and Expensive

A New Bee Crisis Could Make Your Food Scarce and Expensive

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 19

Scientists are racing to stop a tiny mite that could devastate the pollinators a...

Readers Respond to the January 2025 Issue

Readers Respond to the January 2025 Issue

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 20

Letters to the editors for the January 2025 issue of Scientific American

Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Loud Snoring in Kids

Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Loud Snoring in Kids

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 28

Snoring indicates oxygen reduction, but a variety of treatments can restore heal...

Length of a Day on Uranus Revised, Pour Height Influences Coffee Quality, and Plastics Recycling Falls Short.

Length of a Day on Uranus Revised, Pour Height Influenc...

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 14

A fluid study homes in on the best method to make a cup of coffee, scientists us...

Disaster Experts Are Missing Hurricane and Flood Meetings because of Trump Travel Restrictions

Disaster Experts Are Missing Hurricane and Flood Meetin...

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 14

FEMA and NOAA officials are being forced to skip major hurricane and flood confe...

Neutrino Mass Mystery Shrinks with Latest KATRIN Results

Neutrino Mass Mystery Shrinks with Latest KATRIN Results

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 17

In just the first 259 days of data collection, KATRIN, a beta-decay-based detect...

Replacing Federal Workers with Chatbots Would Be a Dystopian Nightmare

Replacing Federal Workers with Chatbots Would Be a Dyst...

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 13

The Trump administration sees an AI-driven federal workforce as more efficient. ...

Does Your Language’s Grammar Change How You Think?

Does Your Language’s Grammar Change How You Think?

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 23

The brain’s response to information depends on language’s grammatical structure

Why Are Rare Earth Metals So Precious?

Why Are Rare Earth Metals So Precious?

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 22

China is blocking exports of these vital minerals. What makes them so special?

Lofty Math Problem Called Hilbert’s Sixth Closer to Being Solved

Lofty Math Problem Called Hilbert’s Sixth Closer to Bei...

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 40

A breakthrough in Hilbert’s sixth problem is a major step in grounding physics i...

Can AI Let Us Chat with Dolphins?

Can AI Let Us Chat with Dolphins?

SIN Apr 15, 2025 0 21

Google is developing an LLM that could help us communicate with dolphins

This Butterfly’s Epic Migration Is Written into Its Chemistry

This Butterfly’s Epic Migration Is Written into Its Che...

SIN Apr 13, 2025 0 21

Painted ladies travel the globe every year on massive journeys—including across ...

This Robot Copies Life—By Decomposing

This Robot Copies Life—By Decomposing

SIN Apr 12, 2025 0 29

A new soft robotic arm and its controller break down naturally

HIV, Trans Health, and Covid Research Targeted by Trump Cuts to NIH

HIV, Trans Health, and Covid Research Targeted by Trump...

SIN Apr 12, 2025 0 15

An analysis reveals which fields of science and U.S. states are being hit hardes...

Crows Are Surprisingly Good at Geometry

Crows Are Surprisingly Good at Geometry

SIN Apr 12, 2025 0 16

Crows can tell the shapes of stars from those of moons and symmetrical quadrilat...

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