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Anthropic’s Claude 4 Chatbot Suggests It Might Be Conscious

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4 Science Book Recommendations We Loved Reading in July

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Why Do Allergens Make Us Cough and Sneeze?

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Miniature Neutrino Detector Catches Elusive Particles at Nuclear Reactor

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Brains React to Signs of Illness—Even When It’s Not Real

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How the Potato Got Its Start Nine Million Years Ago—Thanks to a Tomato

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Lightning Strike Sets New Record for Longest Ever Measured

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Why Earth Is Rotating Extra Fast This Summer, Shortening Days by Milliseconds

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Heatstroke and Extreme Heat Exposure Leads to Chronic Health Effects on Kidneys, Heart and Brain

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Why the Tsunami from Russia’s Earthquake Wasn’t as Large as Feared

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Why Dungeons and Dragons Is Good for Your Brain

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Russia’s Magnitude 8.8 Earthquake Ranks among 10 Strongest

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U.S. Nuclear Energy Policy Could Accelerate Weapons Proliferation

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Hidden Greenland Lake Punches through Giant Blocks of Ice in ‘Extremely Surprising’ Event

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Science Quiz: Doing a 180

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Neurotic Cats, One-Eyed Aliens and Hypnosis for Liars Are among the Historical Gems Reported in Scientific American

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Jigsaws: SciAm Cover Art

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Why Ticks and Lyme Disease Are Soaring This Summer

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This Summer of Extreme Weather Features Flash Floods and Corn Sweat

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Tsunami Warnings Issued after Magnitude 8.8 Earthquake off the Coast of Russia

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Hurricane Forecasters Keep Access to Threatened Defense Department Satellite Data

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Trump’s EPA Targets ‘Endangerment Finding’ Underlying Climate Change Policy for Reducing Carbon

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Tomb of Ancient Maya City’s First Ruler Has Been Uncovered by Archaeologists

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How to Watch Double Meteor Shower as Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids Peak Tonight

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Tampa Breaks Heat Record as Heat Dome Bakes Eastern U.S.

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Scientists Create First Antimatter Qubit

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Why Genetically Optimizing Embryos Is Misleading, Unethical—And Not Even Possible

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Tetris Presents Math Problems Even Computers Can’t Solve

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You Don’t Remember Being a Baby, but Your Brain Was Making Memories

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See Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids Meteor Showers This Summer

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Organ Proteins Reveal How Aging Accelerates at 50 Years Old

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Interstellar Meteors Hit Earth All the Time but Still Elude Astronomers

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The Surprising Math and Physics behind the 2026 Trionda World Cup Soccer Ball

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Heat Dome Temperatures May Break Records in Eastern U.S.

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What Scientists on Greenland’s Ice Sheet Are Learning about Our Changing Climate

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Hulk Hogan’s Biggest Impact May Have Been in Digital Privacy

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‘Arsenic Life’ Microbe Study Retracted after 15 Years of Controversy

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Polymetallic Nodules, a Source of Rare Metals, May Hold the Secrets of ‘Dark Oxygen’

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Gravitational Wave Science Faces Budget Cuts Despite A First Decade of Breakthroughs

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U.S. Ends Support for CMB-S4 Project to Study Cosmic Inflation

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Heat Dome’s Extreme Heat and Humidity Triggers Alerts across Eastern U.S.

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Physicists Blast Gold to Astonishing Temperatures, Overturning 40 Years of Physics

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Can a Chatbot be Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Interpretability Research on Claude 4

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Study Finds COVID Pandemic Accelerated Brain Aging in Everyone

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Trump Administration Changes at NIH, EPA, NASA, NSF Spark Internal Dissent

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Nonfiction and Fiction Summer Reading Recommendations from Scientific American

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Ozzy Osbourne, Who Suffered with a Form of Parkinson’s, Dies at 76

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Biggest Trial of Four-Day Workweek Finds Workers Are Happier and Feel Just as Productive

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Why I’m Suing OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT

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NASA Employees Warn Science and Safety Are at Risk from White House Budget Cuts

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