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Scientific American

Is the U.S. in a new era of political violence? Experts say it’s complicated

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Sucker fish are hiding in manta rays’ ‘butthole,’ new study reveals

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Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test

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See the National Park Service’s newest canine rangers

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Tanking is ruining NBA basketball. Can math save it?

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Inside NASA’s ‘very ambitious’ moon base plan

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Protein-boosted foods are everywhere now, but do we actually need more protein?

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This sulfurous hell world might change the way we classify exoplanets

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Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak, risk of microplastics-caused climate warming and Alaska landslide tsunami

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National Academies experts denounce Trump’s NSF board purge

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Is testosterone therapy safe and effective? What we know

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The mangled remains of probes sent to Venus may still be there

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Celebrate Mother’s Day with nine bold, beautiful and bizarre animal moms

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This organoid can menstruate—and shows how tissue can repair itself

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Top climate research center at risk of cuts sues Trump administration

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The leader of NASA’s Psyche mission has tips for interplanetary team building

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Wildfire breaks out inside Chernobyl exclusion zone

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See the Pentagon’s new UFO image release

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AI’s Power Needs Will Destroy the Renewable Energy Revolution

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U.S. neutrino megaproject takes shape in abandoned gold mine

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Pentagon releases trove of new UFO files, but skeptics aren’t impressed

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There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus, but this scientist is working on one

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Scientists make AI play Battleship to help it do science better

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Is Pluto a planet? That’s asking the wrong question

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The science behind social media’s peptide obsession

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David Attenborough celebrates his 100th birthday

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Trump administration cut funding to study hantavirus, the virus behind deadly cruise ship outbreak

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Slower biological aging may tied to getting the same amount of rest each day

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Shake it off—NASA’s Curiosity rover gets its robotic arm stuck inside a rock on Mars

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Poop, stomach oil and ostrich eggshells keep records of Earth’s ancient climate

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Skeletons of four doomed Franklin Expedition sailors identified with DNA

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Math and statistics help explain the FBI’s ‘missing scientists’ cases

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The hantavirus cruise ship outbreak is a dangerous experiment

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MAHA voters support lower health care costs above vaccine safety and limitation of pesticides, poll finds

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Could this fungus live on Mars? Maybe it already does

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The return of the Presidential Physical Fitness Award likely won’t improve children’s health, experts say

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Gas prices are spiking. So why aren’t U.S. oil companies drilling more?

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The brain processes overheard words under anesthesia, but it may not remember them

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The Trump administration is bringing back flavored vapes. Advocates and lawmakers say the risks outweigh the benefits

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A 1,500-foot tsunami took scientists by surprise. Now we know why it happened

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‘Touchy-feely’ dark matter is having a moment

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What are AI agents? Inside a real experiment where AI ran a start‑up

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Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a ‘depressing’ record high

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Babies may ‘catch’ yawns from their mother in the womb, new study finds

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Why some mathematicians think we should abandon pi

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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin moon lander completes a crucial test as race with SpaceX heats up

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Does a psychedelic trip change your brain? A new study offers a tantalizing clue

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A decade of research reveals harms of ‘fitspiration’ content online

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How scientists made the discoveries behind a game-changing gene therapy for sickle cell disease and won a $3-million Breakthrough Prize

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Humpback whales sometimes hang out with their mouth open, baffling scientists

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