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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.

We’ve all heard apologies that ring hollow and others that sound genuine, but what makes the difference? New research suggests that the words we choose when we…

The patient: A 3-year-old boy in San Antonio, Texas

What happened: The patient’s mother worked as a microbiology lab technician, and part of her job involved visiting physicians’ offices to gather lab dishes of clinical samples that had been…

Scientists have uncovered a “hidden order” in drylands across the planet, where plants follow disordered hyperuniformity — a layout that looks random and disorganized up close but adheres to a clear pattern when viewed from farther away.

The…

Neil deGrasse Tyson is back.

In 2024 we chatted with the gracious celebrity astrophysicist, lecturer, podcaster, and bestselling author regarding “Merlin’s Tour of the Universe,” a revised and updated edition of Tyson’s very first book that was…

An underwater photographer in Australia was following a sea dragon carrying eggs during a rough night dive when he was surprised by a huge stingray.

The spectacular dive was “one to remember,” says photographer Sam Glenn-Smith on 

At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars.

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected…

Astronomers know the universe is expanding, and that its rate of expansion is continually accelerating. Most explanations rely on “dark energy” to explain this phenomenon, but a new study takes a different path.

An international team of…