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March 26, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Scientists saw a sperm whale giving birth. And then things got weird Sperm whales are known to socialize, but…

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but not to every form of life. Ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly…

With current chemical propulsion technology, it takes a spacecraft up to 10 months to reach Mars. Reducing that transit time will be critical for future missions to the Red Planet,…

Look to the southern sky as darkness falls on March 27 to see the thickening form of the waxing gibbous moon glowing close to the stars of the Beehive Cluster…

March 26, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Skin cells remember inflammation for life. Here’s why Skin conditions such as psoriasis often flare up in the same…

Researchers at Cornell University, working with collaborators, have created an extremely small neural implant that can sit on a grain of salt. Despite its size, the device can wirelessly transmit…

There is perhaps no name more synonymous with old school science fiction than Isaac Asimov. By the time the prolific writer passed away in 1992, he had published over 500…

Pulsar Fusion achieved its ‘first plasma’ in its Sunbird nuclear fusion exhaust test system (Pulsar Fusion) A team of British scientists has achieved the first ever plasma ignition inside a…

Researchers have uncovered how a mysterious ion channel helps cells break down waste, opening new possibilities for treating Parkinson’s disease. Just like sinks and bathtubs have overflow drains to prevent…

March 26, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescope NASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up…

A northern tamandua – a kind of anteater – using the fig tree latrine Tropical Canopy Ecology Project A host of tree mammal species, including opossums, two-toed sloths and wild…

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists haven’t been exactly sure how it works – until…

Feeling like you had “a good night’s sleep” depends on more than just how long you slept. It also reflects how deeply and continuously you believe you slept. Scientists still…

March 25, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Earth’s magnetic field may be more powerful than we thought A major defense against everything space throws at us,…

BLETCHLEY, United Kingdom, March 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pulsar Fusion, a UK-based space propulsion company developing advanced propulsion technologies for the rapidly growing satellite and deep-space markets, today announced…

Fathers in Sweden are less likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis during their partner’s pregnancy and in the months right after their child is born. But this pattern reverses over…

While we all celebrate our birthdays every 12 months (our chronological age), it doesn’t always match up with the rate at which our bodies are wearing out (our biological age)….

March 25, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA releases stunning new Saturn images—and the gas giant has never looked so good New images captured by the…

Astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life have now identified the most promising places to look. Out of more than 6,000 known exoplanets, researchers have narrowed the list to just under 50…

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Could being a “morning person” improve your health … on the moon? Scientists have identified what appears to be a “cavity” of reduced cosmic radiation near Earth’s moon. The finding…

March 25, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Physicists just took a road trip with a load of antimatter. Here’s how it went Scientists at CERN built…

For over 60 years, metformin has been a first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes, yet scientists have not fully understood how it works. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, along…

Scientists in Australia are in a desperate race to rescue a newly identified “zombie tree” before it vanishes from Queensland’s rainforests. They discovered that the tree, Rhodamnia zombi, can no…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech NASA’s plans for a Moon base have been capturing headlines lately — but…

The star γ Cas, visible to the naked eye in the constellation Cassiopeia, has confused astronomers for decades. It produces X-rays far more intense and hotter than what scientists expect…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess giant…

The first crewed moon mission since the Apollo era will launch a week from today, if all goes according to plan. NASA is apparently still targeting April 1 for the…

Lena Ting of Emory University and her team set out to understand how aging and Parkinson’s disease affect the way the brain and muscles respond when a person tries to…