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Giant ‘Gullies’ in the Earth Threaten Cities in Africa amid Rapid Urbanization

Giant ‘Gullies’ in the Earth Threaten Cities in Africa ...

SIN Aug 31, 2025 0 16

Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of losing homes, businesses—and live...

AI Spots Hidden Signs of Consciousness in Comatose Patients before Doctors Do

AI Spots Hidden Signs of Consciousness in Comatose Pati...

SIN Aug 31, 2025 0 43

A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma pat...

5 Books Scientific American Recommends for August

5 Books Scientific American Recommends for August

SIN Aug 31, 2025 0 16

Check out this collection of nonfiction and fiction books recommended by Scienti...

EPA Fires 5 Employees Who Signed ‘Dissent’ Letter

EPA Fires 5 Employees Who Signed ‘Dissent’ Letter

SIN Aug 31, 2025 0 17

The EPA fired five agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves...

Neglecton Particles Could Be Key to More Stable Quantum Computers

Neglecton Particles Could Be Key to More Stable Quantum...

SIN Aug 30, 2025 0 19

Scientists have revived an ignored area of math to envision a path toward stable...

Voting Integrity Messages Fight Misinformation in the Lab. But What about the Real World?

Voting Integrity Messages Fight Misinformation in the L...

SIN Aug 30, 2025 0 14

Telling people exactly how voting security works helps defeat election misinform...

First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant Marks Milestone in Xenotransplantation—But Surgeons Have Many More Questions

First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant Marks Milestone in X...

SIN Aug 30, 2025 0 22

Surgeons think the first transplantation of a pig lung in a human is an exciting...

How Key Changes to the Pelvis Helped Humans Walk Upright

How Key Changes to the Pelvis Helped Humans Walk Upright

SIN Aug 29, 2025 0 22

Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shap...

CDC Leadership Chaos Could Disrupt Pandemic Preparedness, National Biosecurity

CDC Leadership Chaos Could Disrupt Pandemic Preparednes...

SIN Aug 29, 2025 0 22

Public health experts warn that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s...

20 Years after Hurricane Katrina, Major Forecasting Advances Could Erode

20 Years after Hurricane Katrina, Major Forecasting Adv...

SIN Aug 29, 2025 0 23

Hurricane forecasts have made huge leaps since Katrina hit 20 year ago, but that...

The Science behind Hurricane Katrina: What Researchers Knew before the 2005 Disaster

The Science behind Hurricane Katrina: What Researchers ...

SIN Aug 29, 2025 0 17

Two decades after Katrina, we revisit the storm and discuss the evolution of hur...

Subliminal Learning Lets Student AI Models Learn Unexpected (and Sometimes Misaligned) Traits from Their Teachers

Subliminal Learning Lets Student AI Models Learn Unexpe...

SIN Aug 29, 2025 0 16

AI can transfer strange qualities through seemingly unrelated training—from a lo...

How to See Faster-Than-Light Motion

How to See Faster-Than-Light Motion

SIN Aug 29, 2025 0 18

Superluminal velocities are common but illusory

What 100 Years of Quantum Physics Has Taught Us about Reality—And Ourselves

What 100 Years of Quantum Physics Has Taught Us about R...

SIN Aug 29, 2025 0 12

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the ...

20 Years After Hurricane Katrina, How Safe Is New Orleans From Another Catastrophic Flood?

20 Years After Hurricane Katrina, How Safe Is New Orlea...

SIN Aug 29, 2025 0 18

Scientists and engineers have been implementing steps to better protect New Orle...

Bottom Trawling Could Unleash Carbon Dioxide, Worsening Global Warming

Bottom Trawling Could Unleash Carbon Dioxide, Worsening...

SIN Aug 29, 2025 0 18

Bottom trawling is a fishing practice that is notoriously destructive to seafloo...

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