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Universitat Wien More than 30,000 years ago, people associated with one of Europe's major Palaeolithic cultures (the Gravettian) were more interconnected than previously thought.

University of Southern Denmark Two black holes can collide and merge into one.

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Aging A new review was published in Volume 18 of Aging on September 19, 2026, titled "

Luis Arrais, Earth.com Animals kept at slightly cooler temperatures tend to live longer.

Chris Stringer, The Conversation In September 2018, China Daily ran a story that found its way to my desk.

Meeri Kim, Wash Post Bryant Lin's persistent, hacking cough had lasted for six weeks, with no sign of improvement.

Claudia Steiner, Knowable Magazine Whether it's gushing from a bumped nose or pooling atop a pricked finger, our blood is some hue of red.

Víctor Verdejo, Psyche Most of us have had the experience of looking into someone's eyes and sensing that we know what's on their mind.

Stephen Clark, Ars Leaders in the US Space Force would like to have a new spaceport up and running in four years, adding a third heavy-lift launch site to relieve pressure from bases in...

Jennifer R Vail, Aeon In conversations, few words catch my attention faster than 'friction' - and especially talk of making things frictionless.

Joe Schwarcz, Office for Science and Society There were several events on my agenda as we planned a family trip to London in 1989.

Jesse Granger, Athletic Calgary Flames goalie Devin Cooley went viral on Sunday, less for his stellar effort in an upset win over the defending Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes than...

Eva Kellner, McGill OSS At the Sex Machines Museum in Prague, there is truly no shortage of peculiar, sex-related gadgets.

Ian Taylor, Science Focus In around half an hour on social media, you can learn the most extraordinary things about the pyramids of the world.

Carly Cassella, SciAl Scientists have discovered a distinct subtype of cell in the prostate, and it could help solve the mystery of why the gland enlarges with age.

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Nat Lash & Julie Leopo, ProPublica The strain of bird flu that's ripped through American barns for the last four years has killed two people who caught it from sick animals.

Brian Koberlein, Universe Today Neutrinos don't interact strongly with regular matter.

Emma Chapman, Physics World We rarely think of outer space as an environment of concern for Earth, despite very real threats such as asteroid strikes and solar storms.

Iver Hoen, ScienceNorway The Earth rotates once on its axis every 24 hours.

Nina Agrawal, NYT An experimental vaccine developed by Merck and Moderna could become the first vaccine of its kind used to treat cancer.

Monica Hesse, Wa Post In 1971, a researcher at Stanford performed a landmark psychological study that has, for the past 55 years, shaped how we understand corrosive power.

Joanna Thompson, Quanta In medieval Italy, it was accepted wisdom that anyone walking near a swamp risked falling ill from "bad air" — mala aria.

Jess Cockerill, SciAlert Humans and chimpanzees are remarkably similar, despite the major differences in how our societies have panned out.

Azeen Ghorayshi, NY Times Jean Twenge has made a career out of studying generational differences.

Stephen Law, Templeton Here's an interesting question: "Why should I bother to learn how to spell, do math, reason better, master other languages or do research, when a machine can do all...

Emmet Fraizer, The Nation In March of 2026, in a nondescript, 46th-floor office overlooking lower Manhattan, about two dozen members of Scientific American's editorial staff had...

Christina Wing, Harvard Business Review About a decade ago, I was in the chair at my longtime dentist's office while he maneuvered a pointy instrument around my mouth.

Zunnash Khan, Live Science Two people born on the exact same day can age in totally different ways ‪—‬ one in relative health and the other with chronic disease.

Fernanda Pires, Univ. of Michigan Women in the United States can expect to provide seven years of care over their lifetimes to aging family members or friends—up from six in 2011,...

Kyle Umipig, Long.Tech Ask most health systems how healthy you are, and they start counting: diagnoses, prescriptions, conditions on a chart.

Aaron Brown, Reason In 2016, the HBO comedian and political commentator John Oliver produced a

Mick West, Skeptical Inquirer On May 8, 2026, Tim Gallaudet, a retired U.S.

Carly Cassella, Science Alert Life is like a deep-sea expedition; you never know what you're going to get.

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Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post Last year, startled scientists reported that the average human brain they studied contained roughly the weight of a plastic spoon in

Matthew Phelan, Gizmodo Tiny, nocturnal, and expert at remaining hidden, the Bangka slow loris (Nycticebus bancanus) has spent nearly a century evading wildlife biologists around...

Nicola Davis, The Guardian Love them or loathe them,

Mills & Schulman, The New Atlantis I've spent the past year trying to make sense of what the Trump administration's agenda is for science.

Josh Bloom, ACSH Diesel used to be cheaper than gasoline.

Wiltsche & Archer, iai It remains a mystery about how consciousness relates to neural mechanisms.

Rowan Jacobsen, Sci Am As diseases go, type 2 diabetes and epilepsy seem to have little in common.

Dan Green, Live Science The commander of

National Uni of Singapore Researchers at the National University of Singapore's College of Design and Engineering (CDE) have developed a fibre that...

American Psych Association U.S. adults appear increasingly likely to view stress as an unavoidable part of daily life, according to the

ElOhio State University Have you ever binge-watched Bluey, or a British crime drama, and caught yourself imitating the characters' accents out loud?

Columbia University Two thousand years ago, the Arctic remnants of a once-vast ice sheet started to grow again.