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The Immune System May Struggle to Handle Hotter Summer Temperatures

The Immune System May Struggle to Handle Hotter Summer ...

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Heat seems to trigger a sweep of changes in immune system molecules, although re...

Why Insects Are Lured to Lights in the Night

Why Insects Are Lured to Lights in the Night

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Moths and other insects aren’t drawn to nighttime illumination for the reasons w...

A Citrus-Scented Cannabis Compound Reduces Anxiety for Weed Users

A Citrus-Scented Cannabis Compound Reduces Anxiety for ...

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New research into weed reveals how a lemon-scented terpene can ease anxiety with...

Sun Erupts with Largest Flare of This Solar Cycle, but Auroras Unlikely to Follow

Sun Erupts with Largest Flare of This Solar Cycle, but ...

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The same massive sunspot that gave Earth multiple nights of stunning aurora disp...

Disasters Displaced More Than 26 Million People in 2023

Disasters Displaced More Than 26 Million People in 2023

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Floods, wildfires, droughts and earthquakes forced more than 26 million people t...

April Heat Waves from Gaza to the Philippines Were Made Worse by Climate Change

April Heat Waves from Gaza to the Philippines Were Made...

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From Gaza to India to the Philippines, climate change exacerbated often record-b...

Orcas Just Sank Another Yacht

Orcas Just Sank Another Yacht

SIN May 15, 2024 0 23

Orcas have once again attacked and sunk a boat near the Strait of Gibraltar, a b...

Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences

Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences

SIN May 14, 2024 0 24

What the neuroscience of near-death experiences tells us about human consciousness

Poem: ‘Chrysalis’

Poem: ‘Chrysalis’

SIN May 14, 2024 0 20

Science in meter and verse

Book Review: Rats, Gardens, and Stories from a "Post-Impact" Future

Book Review: Rats, Gardens, and Stories from a "Post-Im...

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Rats as you’ve never seen them; the journey of restoring a garden; stories from ...

Contributors to Scientific American’s June 2024 Issue

Contributors to Scientific American’s June 2024 Issue

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Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the sto...

How to Disprove a Conspiracy Theory in 7 Steps

How to Disprove a Conspiracy Theory in 7 Steps

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Conspiracy theories are everywhere. Here's how you can figure out when you're be...

The Summer of 2023 Was the Hottest in 2,000 Years

The Summer of 2023 Was the Hottest in 2,000 Years

SIN May 14, 2024 0 21

Ancient tree rings show that the summer of 2023 was the hottest in the past 2,00...

Like-Charge Particles Are Supposed to Repel—But Sometimes They Attract

Like-Charge Particles Are Supposed to Repel—But Sometim...

SIN May 14, 2024 0 2

Scientists think they’ve cracked the long-standing mystery of attraction among p...

Three New Books, Reviewed

Three New Books, Reviewed

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Rats as you’ve never seen them; the journey of restoring a garden; stories from ...

Readers Respond to the February 2024 Issue

Readers Respond to the February 2024 Issue

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Letters to the editors for the February 2024 issue of Scientific American

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