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A DAY AGO
NASA’s Moon Base Plan Adds Two Rovers for Its Astronauts
The contracts, announced on Tuesday, are part of the space agency’s efforts to establish a moon base.
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A Fiery Visitor From Space Photo-Bombs an Erupting Volcano
For a split second, a fireball outshone the rivers of molten lava flowing from the Philippines’ most active volcano.
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN12 HOURS AGO

How doctors will handle abortions if mifepristone telehealth access is banned
One in four abortions in the U.S. rely on telehealth access to mifepristone, but antiabortion activists want to ban it
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN11 HOURS AGO

This sci-fi novel asks—can what you will never know kill you?
There Is No Antimemetics Division explores how to survive when memories and meaning are malleable
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN12 HOURS AGO

Are humans really selfish? Rewriting the rules of civilization
Author Jeremy Lent argues that human society runs on a flawed, exploitative worldview—and that embracing interconnectedness could enable a more sustainable future
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN11 HOURS AGO

Iran threats expose the aging fleet that repairs undersea Internet cables
A small, aging fleet repairs the fiber-optic cables that carry data around the globe, and conflict zones can slow that work to a crawl
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN10 HOURS AGO

Tiny quantum computers could help create giant telescopes
Advances in quantum technology might allow astronomers to circumvent age-old issues that limit the size of optical observatories
8 HOURS AGO
The Viruses Causing New Outbreaks Are Much Less Familiar to Science
The types of Ebola and hantavirus panicking officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new questions about how to respond.
A DAY AGO
Threat of Explosion From Toxic Chemical Tank Lessened, Officials Say
The risk of a large explosion has been averted, officials say. But a smaller blast remains possible, and 16,000 people remain displaced.
7 HOURS AGO
Fish Sleep a Lot Like Us. (They Even Nap.)
By tracking eye movements in zebrafish, researchers identified four different types of sleep, analogous to the complex sleep patterns of humans and other animals.
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN7 HOURS AGO
Gigantic ‘little red dot’ threatens to upend cosmic history
Debate still swirls around the nature of "little red dots," black holes glimpsed in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope. A controversial new weigh-in may settle the matter
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN6 HOURS AGO

‘Universal’ aging clocks offer new clues to longevity
A new study could help identify promising treatments to extend the human lifespan, researchers say
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN6 HOURS AGO

NASA’s Jared Isaacman unveiled the first moon base rovers and landers
At an event at NASA Headquarters event, space agency officials unveiled the first rovers and landers headed to the future site of its planned lunar south pole outpost
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN4 HOURS AGO

The secret to immortality might be a sea cucumber
The discarded fragments of this creature apparently refuse to die, leading researchers to claim immortality
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN3 HOURS AGO

A quantum computing system’s perfect randomness could keep your secrets safe
Generating and confirming the randomness of qubits could lead to breakthroughs in computer data encryption