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Here's the deal with 'corn sweat'—it's not all actually corn's fault
Corn has taken the heat for recent Midwest summer humidity—unjustly, according to corn experts
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ChatGPT just proved another 50-year-old math conjecture
What's the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself
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Dark Sky Defenders Raise Alarm Along the Border of West Texas
Residents fear that the Trump administration’s plans to build a border wall will threaten the region’s spectacular starry skies.
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Did scientists just create synthetic life?
The SpudCell certainly resembles a living cell, but a key structure inside the cell falls short of the real thing
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN19 HOURS AGO

Prepare for dangerous air pollution in the Northeast, thanks to Minnesota wildfires
Smoke from northern Minnesota wildfires may drift over the Great Lakes and Northeast this week, bringing hazardous levels of air pollution to major cities
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN19 HOURS AGO

T. rex fossil named ‘Gus’ becomes the most expensive dinosaur sold at auction
This massive dinosaur skeleton sold for more than $50.1 million on Tuesday
2 DAYS AGO
What Is an Aortic Dissection?
The condition that killed Senator Lindsey Graham is deadly, sudden and difficult to treat — “like a knife to the heart,” one expert said.
A DAY AGO
New Winged Robot Can Fly and Swim Like a Puffin
Inspired by the physical feats of diving birds, researchers have created a robot that can plunge into the water and flap back into the air.
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Roger Worthington Is Suing Over a Heat Wave
Roger Worthington is helping to lead a $50 billion lawsuit against oil producers. This week he’ll face powerful critics in Congress.
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Researchers Claim to Have Solved the Perplexing ‘Reverse Sprinkler’ Problem That Stumped Feynman
Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN17 HOURS AGO

NASA’s Hubble reveals a black hole hiding inside a massive star cluster in the Milky Way
Scientists have long suspected that this star cluster was a hotspot for a certain kind of black hole. But for decades, they had been unable to spot any
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN17 HOURS AGO

Experimental immune therapy shows promise against deadly childhood brain cancer
Several children who had aggressive recurrent brain tumors remained disease-free years after this treatment, according to an early-stage trial
2 DAYS AGO
‘We’re Fighting Satan’: The War to Save Bees From a Hornet Invasion
As yellow-legged hornets spread through South Carolina’s Lowcountry region, threatening the local honey crop, a state team of bee defenders is racing to the rescue.
15 HOURS AGO
Climate: An extraordinary White House meeting
A new book sheds light on President Trump’s affinity for fossil fuels.
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN3 HOURS AGO

August's solar eclipse inspires science involving jets, balloons and Einstein’s general theory of relativity
Solar eclipses are a rare and brief opportunity for scientists to gather data on everything from the physics of the sun to air pressure in the upper atmosphere