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James Webb Space Telescope Finds Atmosphere on Lava Pla...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for...

Tylenol Is Popular and Safe, Yet Nobody Knows How It Works

The common pain reliever is safe when used as directed, research shows. But scie...

Announcing the #SciAmInTheWild Photography Contest Shor...

To celebrate Scientific American’s 180th anniversary, we invited readers to plac...

Does Tylenol Use during Pregnancy Cause Autism? What th...

Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. plan to tie Tylenol use during pregnancy and fo...

Magnitude 4.3 Earthquake Strikes San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area was rattled early this morning by a magnitude 4.3 ear...

‘Almost Impossible’ Deep-Earth Diamonds Confirm How The...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamond...

Inside the Mysterious Smuggling of the El Ali Meteorite

How a space rock vanished from Africa and showed up for sale across an ocean

Vaccine Panel Overhaul, Head Trauma in Sports, and Stra...

A revamped CDC advisory committee faces vaccine debates, studies reveal brain ch...

2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded for Research on Tipsy Bats...

Winners of the annual Ig Nobel awards include the science of tipsy bats and the ...

Go Ahead, Write in the Margins—It’s Good for Your Brain

Annotating the margins of books is an important part of deep reading and has a l...

How to Weigh a Black Hole

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multipl...

'Etymology Nerd' Adam Aleksic on How Internet Culture I...

Linguist Adam Aleksic explains how viral slang and algorithm-driven speech aren’...

Aftershock of July’s 8.8 Earthquake Strikes Kamchatka. ...

A powerful magnitude 7.8 aftershock off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that arose ...

NASA Records More Than 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting

It’s a crowded galaxy, the latest exoplanet tally shows

New AI Tool Predicts Which of 1,000 Diseases Someone Ma...

A large language model called Delphi-2M analyzes a person’s medical records and ...

Genetics Can Track How Languages Mixed in the Past

New research shows that wherever human populations mix, their languages blend as...

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