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December 7, 2023 5 min read The iridescent, blind De Winton’s golden mole was last seen in 1937 and later declared officially lost. But scientists

CLIMATEWIRE | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Now the real work starts. The first few days of the COP28 climate conference featured so many lofty declarations and

Trust but verify. That expression captures the tension between relying on others while still wanting to keep some level of control over a situation. Mathematician

I was in fourth grade when I got my hair relaxed for the first time. My mom took me to a professional salon, and Game

Artificial intelligence is not limited to entertaining chatbots: increasingly effective programs trained with machine learning have become integral to uses ranging from smartphone GPS navigators

December 7, 2023 6 min read Far-right extremists shifted their online hate from Muslims to Jews in 2017, and offline hate followed the same trends 

Thirty years ago a tiny parasite in the water supply in Milwaukee, Wis., touched off the largest waterborne disease outbreak in U.S. history. Although that

December 7, 2023 4 min read Brain waves during sleep influence glucose and insulin, offering new insights into controlling diabetes By Siddhant Pusdekar Teenage girl

CLIMATEWIRE | The melting Greenland ice sheet is the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise — and some experts are warning it could soon cross

The number of birthdays you’ve had—better known as your chronological age—now appears to be less important in assessing your health than ever before. A new

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s Science, Quickly. I’m Karen Hopkin. Swimming against a current can be tough. But imagine having to do it in

December 6, 2023 5 min read A recent study finds varying combinations of microbes in the vaginal microbiome may influence health outcomes such as risk

Sierra Ward: James 5:7-8: Be patient, therefore, beloved, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being

The first steps to solve the millennia-old mystery of our true place in the universe happened, of all places, on a brisk and early Tuesday

December 6, 2023 3 min read AI chatbots can convince other chatbots to instruct users how to build bombs and cook meth By Chris Stokel-Walker