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New Views of Saturn’s Moon Titan and Jupiter’s Moon Europa Complicate Ocean Worlds Theory

New Views of Saturn’s Moon Titan and Jupiter’s Moon Eur...

SIN Dec 18, 2025 0 46

Oceans hiding within the crusts of distant moons are tantalizing targets for sci...

Scientists Denounce Trump’s Plan to Kill Crucial Atmospheric Science Center

Scientists Denounce Trump’s Plan to Kill Crucial Atmosp...

SIN Dec 17, 2025 0 45

The U.S. government is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research,...

Why a Critical Orca Community Is Slipping toward Extinction

Why a Critical Orca Community Is Slipping toward Extinc...

SIN Dec 17, 2025 0 45

A scientist, a journalist and a remarkable scent‑detecting dog race to learn wha...

Strange Cosmic Blast May Be First-Ever Superkilonova Observed

Strange Cosmic Blast May Be First-Ever Superkilonova Ob...

SIN Dec 17, 2025 0 58

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space exp...

Ancient Bees Burrowed Inside Bones, Fossils Reveal

Ancient Bees Burrowed Inside Bones, Fossils Reveal

SIN Dec 17, 2025 0 36

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ag...

RFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New Bill

RFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be P...

SIN Dec 17, 2025 0 43

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders ...

Math Puzzle: Wrangle the Rectangles

Math Puzzle: Wrangle the Rectangles

SIN Dec 17, 2025 0 43

Sort out a rectangle tangle in this math puzzle

Scientists Devise New Plan to Study the Most Exciting Rock on Mars

Scientists Devise New Plan to Study the Most Exciting R...

SIN Dec 17, 2025 0 33

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of ...

Interoception Is Our Sixth Sense, and It May Be Key to Mental Health

Interoception Is Our Sixth Sense, and It May Be Key to ...

SIN Dec 17, 2025 0 27

Disruptions in interoception may underlie anxiety, eating disorders, and other m...

Meet Your Plastic Pal

Meet Your Plastic Pal

SIN Dec 17, 2025 0 36

A new generation of household robots could change the way you live

The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show

The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show

SIN Dec 17, 2025 0 35

The Arctic has changed dramatically in the past 20 years, a new report shows, as...

New Flu Variant May Be Triggering Spike in Severe Disease

New Flu Variant May Be Triggering Spike in Severe Disease

SIN Dec 17, 2025 0 30

A novel influenza variant called subclade K appears to be driving an uptick in c...

The Hype behind Expensive Probiotic Supplements

The Hype behind Expensive Probiotic Supplements

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 28

Popular supplements with billions of “good” microbes really help only a few illn...

Readers Respond to the September 2025 Issue

Readers Respond to the September 2025 Issue

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 26

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

These Orcas Are on the Brink—And So Is the Science That Could Save Them

These Orcas Are on the Brink—And So Is the Science That...

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 28

Inside the desperate rush to save the southern resident killer whales

Poem: ‘Large Hadron Collider,’ ‘Maxwell’s Demon’ and ‘Music for the Heat Death of the Universe’

Poem: ‘Large Hadron Collider,’ ‘Maxwell’s Demon’ and ‘M...

SIN Dec 16, 2025 0 41

Science in meter and verse

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