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February 23, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Who should shovel the snow? This weird math puzzle can help Blizzards are a real-life example of what game…

Volcanic eruptions that look like single events are often the visible outcome of slow, complicated activity taking place deep underground. Beneath the surface, magma shifts position, changes chemically, and can…

From the moment it debuted in 2007, BioShock has been celebrated as one of the greatest video games of all time, one that bolstered the medium’s claim to true artistry…

February 23, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Why the Northeast blizzard’s snow is ideal for snowballs and snowmen School is out as heavy, wet snow blankets…

Learning to recognise birds may strengthen your cognitive reserve steve young/Alamy Expert birdwatchers have brain differences that may underlie their remarkable ability to identify unfamiliar birds and suggest that birdwatching…

Newswise — The future of clean energy depends on algorithms as much as it does atoms. Georgia Tech’s Qi Tang is building machine learning (ML) models to accelerate nuclear fusion research,…

For decades, astronomers have tried to understand why so many icy bodies in the outer solar system resemble snowmen, with two rounded sections joined together. Researchers at Michigan State University…

Look high above the southwestern horizon tonight (Feb. 23) to see the blue-white stars of the Pleiades open cluster glowing alongside the waxing gibbous moon, just hours before it reaches…

February 23, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Poetry was humanity’s first language technology. AI is the next Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem…

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new way to estimate when a person is likely to start showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease using…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Grounded until at least April, NASA’s giant Moon rocket is headed back to the hangar this week for more repairs before astronauts climb aboard. The…

[CLIP: Skates cut across the ice at an ice rink, and music plays in the background.] Kendra Pierre-Louis: So we’re out here today in lower Manhattan ice-skating. There are lots…

The World of Westeros is a rich world full of its own religions, history, and superstitions, and therefore, it’s no surprise that certain numbers are significant. In particular, the number…

In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate…

Once, long ago, a little reptile going about its business plopped itself down in the mud before getting up and carrying on with its day. Nearly 300 million years later,…

A winter bomb cyclone is expected to bring blizzard conditions across parts of the East Coast from Maryland up through southeastern New England Sunday night into Monday morning. But what,…

February 20, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA just passed a major milestone on its mission to return humans to the moon After completing a second…

Shopping Deck out your backyard for less than you’d expect. by Maria Sabella We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this…

Whether developing an oxygen-powered, rocket-launching motorbike in Cyclone, building a consciousness-altering machine in From Beyond, or creating a substance that revives the dead in Re-Animator, Jeffrey Combs cornered the mad…

In June 2025, a year-long investigation exposed an illegal trade smuggling timber from protected areas in the Congolese rainforest into neighbouring Burundi. Award-winning Burundian journalist Arthur Bizimana and his collaborator…

You could get compensated for what you’ve posted online – as long as it’s been used to train AI. At least that’s according to Dr Margaret Mitchel, chief ethics scientist…

Godzilla (and two people). Image credits: ITER. For decades, nuclear fusion has been the “holy grail” of energy — a promise of clean, limitless power that always seems to be…

February 21, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Incredible image shows what 2026’s first solar eclipse looked like from space A satellite captured a recent “ring of…