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1972 A Muon Phone Someday “In April a sequence of Morse-code V's (dot dot dot dash) was transmitted by a...

By Leah Crane NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft on top at Kennedy Space Center in FloridaNASA/Joel...

In April 2021, a widely anticipated paper in the field of psychedelics dropped. The study, a small trial run at...

Ashleigh Papp: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I'm Ashleigh Papp. It's summertime in New York City–birds are chirping, insects...

Songs that were first heard from humpback whales off eastern Australia were picked up in whales off Ecuador several years...

“I remember the first time I ever shaved my legs, I didn’t even tell my mom,” Bortner says. “I was...

CLIMATEWIRE | The Dallas area is still reeling from record-breaking downpours that triggered flash floods across northeastern Texas last week. The...

Computer simulations of a simplified dishwasher that uses hot, dry steam and no detergent found that it could kill all...

Fishing boats kept washing up in Japan with dead North Koreans on board. Dozens were documented every year, but they...

Did you know that we spend about 90 percent of our time indoors? So why aren’t we talking about indoor...

By performing a DNA comparison of two similar jellyfish species, researchers have found the genes that could stop and reverse...

NASA has pushed back the launch of its Artemis 1 mission to the moon due to an issue with one...

The human brain is an amazing computing machine. Weighing only three pounds or so, it can process information a thousand...

Grass lawns and hiking trails are no problem for this robot, which learned to walk on them on the fly...

Most of the quantum fields that fill our universe have one, and only one, preferred state, in which they’ll remain...

Christopher Intagliata: Artificial intelligence systems have bested humans at chess, poker, Jeopardy, Go, and countless other games. But machines still...