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Highly Invasive Spotted Lanternflies May Have a Surpris...

Spotted lanternflies are sometimes drawn to power line vibrations—and scientists...

Mangrove Trees Are on the Move, Taking the Tropics with...

As the climate warms, mangroves are migrating farther poleward, transforming the...

People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Underst...

“Heavy and healthy” can be a rare or common condition. But either way it may sig...

How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dam...

Better predictions of how cracks grow can make machines and structures more reli...

Contributors to Scientific American’s July/August 2024 ...

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

New Understandings of Food, Fat, Fitness and Evolution

Quantum observers, migrating mangroves, the deep history of an asteroid and unde...

Book Review: Why People Collect Trees and You Should, Too

A new book about tree collectors shows how arboreal curation is an outlet for ar...

Poem: ‘An Ars Poetica’

Science in meter and verse

How to Stay Safe during Lightning Storms

Each year in the U.S. lightning strikes 37 million times and kills 21 people on ...

How Earth Went from a Sterile Rock to a Lush, Living Pl...

From microbes to mammoths, life has transformed Earth into one big living system...

What Does Artificial General Intelligence Actually Mean?

Claims of artificial general intelligence are increasingly common. But can anyon...

The Paris Olympics Face Bacterial Challenges, and Micro...

Microplastics are everywhere, Olympic ambitions for the Seine River are complica...

Learning from Great Tits' Urban Adaptability

One of Europe’s most common birds, the great tit, show an amazing adaptability t...

What a Study on Ultraprocessed Fake Meat and Heart Dise...

A recent study found that eating ultraprocessed plant-based foods was linked to ...

Giant Viruses Discovered in Arctic Ice Could Slow Sea-L...

Scientists recently discovered giant viruses infecting algal blooms that dot the...

The Hidden Story of Trailblazing Black Astronauts at NASA

A new film details the history of Ed Dwight and NASA’s first Black astronaut can...

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