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Scientific American

Glaciers are secretly teeming with life

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Russia seeks mathematician’s extradition

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NASA’s Chandra Observatory spots possible supernova remnant in the middle of our galaxy

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How an aspiring actress from Brooklyn stumbled into an astrophysics career at NASA

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Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’

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Inside the race to develop a new Ebola vaccine

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World-first: therapy to make cells young again given to a person

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U.S. industries push to revive tungsten production amid shortage

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World Cup camera coverage poses a moving math puzzle

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NASA’s experimental quiet supersonic plane passes another critical milestone

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Former U.S. health official explains why the Trump administration ‘ignored’ a key alcohol study

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Earth’s permafrost could soon release hidden ‘deep carbon,’ supercharging warming

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The 24 alien books Scientific American recommends

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SpaceX’s historic IPO ignites the new space race

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Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day gets one major thing wrong about the search for aliens

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SpaceX IPO valuation depends on Starship and orbital AI data centers

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Crowdsourcing could discover new meteor showers and more

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Can black holes send information back in time?

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Disclosure Day and interspecies communication—alien language isn’t just weird noises

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Obstetricians oppose CDC to recommend more shots for moms

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The U.S. stockpiles oil in huge underground salt caverns. Here’s why

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Meet LEV-2, a baseball-sized and absurdly cute moon robot

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See the hidden fungal network so big it could stretch to Proxima Centauri and back

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Children’s zip codes change their brains, new study finds

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Humans and AI race to ‘blow up’ math’s toughest equations

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Tilly Edinger: The paleoneurologist saved by her science

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China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrives at one of Earth’s mysterious ‘quasi-moons’

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El Niño is here and could tip Earth to a new record hot year

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What AI-herding scientists can learn from watching ‘sheepdog YouTube’

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The 2026 World Cup will bring the heat. Here's how to keep cool

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The U.S. is getting hit with severe stormy weather—here’s what’s stewing in the atmosphere

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Report of gene-edited human embryos sparks worries about the technology’s future uses

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AI scores a ‘C–’ on its hardest math test yet

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How to build kids’ ‘cognitive endurance’ in an age of distraction

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How to tell if your dog is left-pawed or right-pawed, according to science

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Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years

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How FIFA is engineering natural grass for the 2026 World Cup

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Cats, unlike dogs and toddlers, help you only when it helps them

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How Canadian rock duo Angine de Poitrine play with neurobiology and physics to make viral music

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The World Cup could be a petri dish for disease. Wastewater could sound the alarm

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The surprising science behind the 2026 World Cup grass

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How the new FDA-approved ingredient bemotrizinol enhances sunscreen protection

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How math’s ‘hairy ball theorem’ could explain bad hair days

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Americans’ trust in the CDC has plummeted since 2025, new poll finds

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NASA reveals astronauts who will fly Artemis III, its next step toward a moon landing

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Inside the new Siri AI and the privacy paradox of Apple Intelligence

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Resistance training may boost longevity. But how much do you need?

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Rare meteorite might be a relic from a ‘lost world’

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Genital herpes tests are notoriously unreliable, but better ones are in the works

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Spotted lanternflies’ love of cities may be the secret to their invasion success

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