Science
Scientific discoveries, research breakthroughs, space exploration, and advancements across all science fields.
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New brain scan tool could help treat a devastating and incurable genetic condition
About 8,000 people in the U.K. are living with Huntington’s disease, a devastating inherited condition that gradually affects movement, thinking…
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2026 Ig Nobels honor cockroach milk, interspecies kissing, taunting venomous snakes, and more
How nutritious is cockroach milk? At last, this burning question is getting the recognition it so sorely deserves: the team…
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Medieval manuscripts are “biological time capsules” for deadly sheeppox virus
For instance, last year we reported on research that used microbial DNA analysis of human remains to identify the likely…
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Geometry Reveals the Tricks behind Gerrymandering
Hardly anyone reckoned that struggling in high school to calculate the area of a triangle or the volume of a…
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Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed
Still, other models are used to recognize synapses and classify the type of synapse once it’s spotted. These models can…
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Pentagon pauses controversial testosterone policy guidelines
The Pentagon is pausing guidelines under a controversial policy to require testosterone testing for service members over the age of…
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Was the ‘American cheetah’ a cheetah at all?
Tens of thousands of years ago, a long-legged cat nicknamed the “American cheetah” prowled North America. But an analysis of…
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Should you worry about this record-breaking encryption crack?
Early Thursday morning, technical researcher Eric Lu sparked worldwide excitement and confusion by posting a sequence of 130 digits on…
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Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
Unleashing Starlink V3… The orbital flight will allow SpaceX to deploy operational payloads. A batch of SpaceX’s next-generation Starlink “Version…
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What happens when technology tries to optimize love?
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. I’m just old enough to remember a time when using…
