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Depictions of pigs found in Indonesia date back at least 45,500 years

Linguist Ben Zimmer says the pandemic has turned us all into amateur epidemiologists utilizing terms such as “superspreader” and “asymptomatic.” Christopher Intagliata reports.

Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

It has been a tough year, but science still brought us some weird, cool and quirky findings

Scientific American has a long history of featuring poetry, and our monthly column once again brings new works to the world

Resilient corals in Miami may signal what the future holds for these creatures

Using natural timbers to make the impossible tangible

Photographers and TikTokers can use the method to show how a narrow strip records something different in a series of sequential images

Materials scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez talks about her latest book The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another.

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Science in meter and verse

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