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This article Republished from conversation under Creative Commons License.We made our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. Through trial and error, my colleagues and…

indigenous artist kiteFlorian Vogeneder/vog.photo PST ART: Collision of art and scienceMultiple venues, Southern CaliforniaClosed on February 16, 2025 The myth of a world of irreconcilable divisions…

Almost a year after its approval, the first treatments using the Nobel Prize-winning technology, Chrispr, are now being delivered to patients.The gene-editing treatment, called Kasgeby, is…

Mr. Zeldin, a 44-year-old lawyer and former Army lieutenant, has no experience in environmental policy. He entered politics in 2011 through the New York State Senate,…

Without a doubt, inactivity is bad for us. Sitting for long periods of time is consistently associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death. The…

(CLIP: Sound of Arecibo message being sent)Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. On November 16, 1974, humanity sent an unprecedented message into…

Sometimes a strange thought pops up in your head that just sits there begging for an answer. Sometimes it’s trivial, sometimes it sounds silly, but then…

November 15, 20244 minimum readNASA’s Chandra termination locks us out of high-resolution X-ray spaceThe Chandra X-ray Observatory faces closure. Closing it down would be a loss…

A half-century ago humanity sent its first postcard to the stars, carried by a narrow beam of radio waves.It was November 16, 1974—a turbulent time on…

Attempts to block Australian children’s access to social media are likely to fail and may do more harm than good