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A report published by the CDC reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children
More than 1,900 people, mostly children, have been sickened by measles in the U.S. in 2025. The outbreaks are moving the country toward losing its measles-free status by early next year
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General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition humans learn through experience
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Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited insulin-producing cells into a man with type 1 diabetes—allowing him to make some of his own insulin without immunosuppressants.
An oil tanker seized by the U.S. this week reportedly used a technique that scrambled its location, but new advanced visual tracking can help expose such ships’ true coordinates
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The FDA is reportedly considering the addition of high-level warning labels to COVID vaccines, a move that some experts say may cause unfounded concerns over safety
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Moths sometimes drink the tears of other animals, but the behavior has mostly been observed in the tropics. New photographs show only the second observation outside of that area
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Precisely calibrating clocks on Mars is harder than you’d think, because of some extremely esoteric physics
Journalist Karen Hao unpacks the rise of AI “empires,” their ideological roots, and the hidden environmental and societal costs of OpenAI’s quest for artificial general intelligence.
Dec 11, 2025
The FDA has approved a device that aims to treat depression by sending electric current into a part of the brain known to regulate mood
New research on strange cycad plants offers a glimpse into the prehistoric origins of pollination
The U.S. is considering allowing bemotrizinol, a highly effective UV filter used throughout Europe and Asia, in its sunscreen products for the first time
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Tantalizing observations suggest marine mammals may be teaming up to hunt
A new survey offers the clearest national snapshot yet of how U.S. teens are using artificial intelligence
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TikTok is rapidly growing in Africa and is being used to sell bushmeat, underscoring the role of social media in the global illegal wildlife trade
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Billionaire-headed machines lampoon tech power and the way our images quietly become fuel for AI
In a new study, women diagnosed with these common growths had a more than 80 percent higher risk of developing heart disease over a 10-year period than their peers did
Dec 10, 2025
A new study identifies a mechanism for how COVID vaccines may, in infrequent cases, drive heart inflammation, a condition that can be caused by the disease itself
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft didn’t phone home as expected on December 6
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French health officials are trying to trace all the contacts of two men who contracted MERS, a potentially lethal disease that is typically confined to the Middle East
Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose has been difficult for scientists to pin down
An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately
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Cross-species “defense pacts” help animals keep tabs on parasites and predators
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NASA’s Perseverance rover has gathered groundbreaking Mars samples, but the mission to bring them home is facing serious challenges.
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On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland’s worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt
Dec 9, 2025
FDA officials are newly scrutinizing several approved therapies to treat RSV in babies despite the fact that these shots were shown to be safe in clinical trials
A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority
Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years old
Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now inspire modern engineers
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On our 2025 Best Nonfiction of the Year list, Karen Hao’s investigation of artificial intelligence reveals how the AI future is still in our hands
X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light
As far as annual meteor showers are concerned, 2025 has saved the best for last. This year’s Geminids are not to be missed
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Space-based computing offers easy access to solar power but presents its own environmental challenges
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A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a mysterious, deep connection that disappears without randomness
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These miniature displays can be the size of your pupil, with as many pixels as you have photoreceptors—opening the way to improved virtual reality
Dec 8, 2025
Europe’s climate agency said 2025 is likely to be the second or third hottest on record
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The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
The site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster remains damaged, but so far, radiation levels outside the plant have not increased, according to officials
Hawaii’s Kilauea, one of Earth’s most active volcanoes, sent lava fountains spewing into the air, obliterating a U.S. Geological Survey camera
Japanese officials said to expect a tsunami of up to 3 meters in some areas after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan
Vitamin K injections have prevented deadly brain bleeds in infants for more than 60 years. New research shows refusal rates have recently jumped nearly 80 percent
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A new sound-based system could squelch small fires before they grow into home-destroying blazes
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Vaccine controversies, space pollution and puppy power.
Dec 7, 2025
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Some fermenting foods can carry the risk of a bacterium that produces an extremely strong toxin called bongkrekic acid
More than 1 in 10 children in the U.S. have ADHD, fueling debate over the condition and how to treat it
Dec 6, 2025
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Today’s leading AI models can already write and refine their own software. The question is whether that self-improvement can ever snowball into true superintelligence
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Researchers have discovered that cooling starchy foods—from pizza to rice—creates “resistant starch,” a carb that behaves like fiber and alters your blood sugar response
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Scientific American sits down with nature writer Robert Macfarlane to discuss his latest book—one of our top picks of 2025—and whether a river has rights
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A scientist has identified a possible astronomical explanation for the Star of Bethlehem, as described in the Bible
Dec 5, 2025
An estimated 280 million metric tons of plastic waste will enter the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year by 2040, data shows
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Scientific American talks to the author of When the Moon Hits Your Eye, one of our best fiction picks for 2025
New guidance from the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel would do away with a decades-old universal birth dose recommendation for hepatitis B that helped cut infections by 99 percent in the U.S.
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Hole in the Sky, by Daniel H. Wilson, is one of Scientific American’s best fiction picks of 2025. In the novel, aliens talk through an AI headset and land in the Cherokee Nation, while the military scrambles to contain and control the unknown
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It was thought that complex cells couldn’t survive above a certain temperature, but a tiny amoeba has proven that assumption wrong
A partially successful test of China’s Zhuque-3 rocket shows that other countries are rapidly catching up with the U.S in the race for reusable rocketry
RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations today. Here’s what’s at stake
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Fiber optics that connect the world can detect its earthquakes, too
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In our topsy-turvy universe, sometimes the farther away an object is, the bigger it seems to be
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Journalist Marla Broadfoot discusses zuranolone, a drug that may help people whose postpartum depression hasn’t responded to traditional antidepressants.
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