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A massive rock from Mars, known as Black Beauty, has yielded new insights into the planet’s history. Scientists used advanced scanning techniques to examine this Martian meteorite. Despite the rock’s small size, the results are…

Moons orbiting starless “rogue” planets could stay warm enough to host liquid water for billions of years, a new study suggests, potentially creating long-lived habitats for life in the depths of space.

Using computer models, researchers found…

Exercise works wonders throughout the human body, including the brain.

Research suggests an array of neurological benefits, such as reducing the brain’s biological age, enhancing learning and memory, and protecting against dementia.

Now, a new…

A white pod sits on a beach in the product render, its hatch open as children run toward it and a wave builds in the background. The scene is not framed as a bunker or a shelter room but as a sealed survival capsule meant to be reached in…

A distant star whose light suddenly flickered like a guttering candle has led astronomers to a spectacular find.

According to an analysis of the strange changes in a Sun-like star named Gaia-GIC-1, located around 11,600 light-years away, its…

Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, countless experiments have confirmed its predictions; the theory undergirds modern technology and enables the electronic…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup.

Last Wednesday the International Energy Agency announced that its member…

Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen.

Fortunately, the scientific…