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Cats, unlike dogs and toddlers, help you only when it helps them
Dogs spontaneously aid struggling humans the way young children do—whereas cats wait until they stand to benefit
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Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years
The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor
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Indonesia Landslides Devastated Endangered Orangutans, Study Finds
More than 5 percent of the species is estimated to have been lost when a climate-fueled storm unleashed torrents of water, mud and debris.
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How to build kids’ ‘cognitive endurance’ in an age of distraction
The ability to run "mental marathons" is a skill children can learn through simple, but dedicated, practice
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How to tell if your dog is left-pawed or right-pawed, according to science
A step-by-step guide to the "Doginburgh Inventory," a new pawedness test developed by dog behavior researchers
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NASA Crew-12 Commander Captures Snaky Southern Lights From Space Station
The footage of the aurora over Earth’s Southern Hemisphere was shared on Sunday by Jessica Meir, commander of NASA’s Crew-12 mission.
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICANA DAY AGO

AI scores a ‘C–’ on its hardest math test yet
The second batch of "First Proof" problems is meant to evaluate AI's usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the 10 questions basically right
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN21 HOURS AGO

Report of gene-edited human embryos sparks worries about the technology’s future uses
Eight years after a Chinese scientist's report of gene-edited babies shocked the world, U.S. scientists reported editing embryos not meant for pregnancies using a more precise technique
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN19 HOURS AGO

The U.S. is getting hit with severe stormy weather—here’s what’s stewing in the atmosphere
Cold fronts colliding with warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico could cause dangerous weather conditions, forecasters say
18 HOURS AGO
Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking
Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction.
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN4 HOURS AGO

What AI-herding scientists can learn from watching ‘sheepdog YouTube’
Controlling a small group of "noisy" sheep holds hints for computer algorithms
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN4 HOURS AGO

The 2026 World Cup will bring the heat. Here's how to keep cool
Extreme heat poses a risk to players, spectators and workers—find out where the danger is and how to keep cool
5 HOURS AGO
What Does ‘Triggered’ Really Mean?
This popular term is often misused, experts say, which may cause more harm than good.
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICANAN HOUR AGO

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrives at one of Earth’s mysterious ‘quasi-moons’
The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is slowly closing in on the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, on a mission that would bring China's first asteroid samples back to Earth in 2027
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICANAN HOUR AGO

El Niño is here and could tip Earth to a new record hot year
Scientists have been expecting El Niño to set in for quite a while now—and it's finally official