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Astronomers have long struggled to understand dark energy, the unknown force believed to drive the accelerating expansion of the universe. Scientists estimate it represents roughly 68 percent of the universe’s total energy content, yet its…

AI-designed experiments run by robots hint at a new approach to biology

On March 9, 2026, a new report highlighted a little-known stretch of the Moon that has started to draw unusual attention inside China’s lunar planning. The study focused on a region near the lunar equator, where old basalt plains, winding…

Many people shudder at the thought of Friday the 13th. Myths, legends and horror films have turned it into an omen of bad luck.

History has also had plenty of bad Friday the 13ths. On Friday, September 13, 1940, Nazi forces bombed Buckingham…

Have astronomers found a runaway monster black hole or just a very weird galaxy?

Raccoons will solve puzzles just for fun

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.

Last February, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was sworn in as the U.S. secretary of health and human services. The HHS,…

Celebrate Pi Day and read about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page.

For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in their ongoing search for methods to calculate…

A peculiar observation during laboratory experiments has led researchers to the breakthrough of a lifetime.

After years of trying to replicate the behavior, uncover its mechanism, and constrain its scope, an interdisciplinary team led by…