Ian McEwan's next novel, 'What We Can Know,' is science fiction 'without the science'
The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s ...
What Lurks in This Flower’s Bizarrely Large Y Chromosome?
Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could ...
Scientists make ‘rare advance’ in tackling the oldest unsolved problem in physics
Physicists have long tried to model the chaotic phenomenon of turbulence. Now, a team has pioneered a new quantum ...
Scientific American1d
To Find Life on Mars, Make Microbes Wiggle
“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...
I work in a research lab and know how to make science fun for kids. Here's how my family finds science in everyday life.
As a lab technician, I'm doing these four things — including turning bath time into a fun experiment — to get my young ...
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NASA finds life's building blocks from an unknown water world in asteroid sample
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
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The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests
The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...
WHO chief asks countries to push Washington to reconsider its withdrawal
A confidential budget document showed WHO’s health emergencies program has a “heavy reliance” on American cash.