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Will a Lunar Impact in 2032 Cause a Meteor Storm?

The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon. Could...

New Treatments for Peanut Allergies Offer Hope—Despite ...

Peanut allergies more than tripled in U.S. kids between the late 1990s and late ...

Carbon Dioxide Isn’t What You Think It Is

In his latest book, science journalist Peter Brannen argues that CO2 is the most...

Controversial Quantum-Computing Paper Gets a Hefty Corr...

The journal Science has lifted an expression of concern on a paper claiming evid...

How to Understand Hurricane Forecasts and the Cone of U...

Hurricane forecasts feature a “cone of uncertainty,” but what is it actually sho...

Tropical Storm, Typhoon, and More—Your Guide to Hurrica...

Everything you need to know about hurricanes explained

OpenAI Model Earns Gold-Medal Score at International Ma...

OpenAI researchers reveal how their experimental model, devoid of any external a...

What to Know about Measles as the Outbreak in Texas End...

Texas may have declared its measles outbreak over, but rising cases elsewhere an...

Second U.S. Malaria Case Not Tied to Travel Raises Fear...

One-off cases of malaria in the U.S. may become more common as warming temperatu...

Tiny Probes Can Surf Sunlight to Explore Earth’s Mesosp...

With no fuel or engines, tiny explorers will surf sun-warmed air alone to explor...

The Universe Keeps Rewriting Cosmology

The universe has a habit of disproving “unassailable” facts

How Sleep Cleans the Brain and Keeps You Healthy

Washing waste from the brain is an essential function of sleep—and it could help...

Contributors to Scientific American’s September 2025 Issue

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

New Treatments Can Free Kids from the Deadly Threat of ...

Remarkable new treatments can free millions of kids and adults from the deadly t...

Four Remarkable Stories from the History of Math Behind...

People in prisons and jails have contributed to some of the greatest ideas in ma...

Nathan Lents’s New Book Explores How Animal Behavior an...

Traditional biology has long ignored nature’s sexual diversity—but evolution tel...

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