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As rich ore gets harder to find, the mining industry is using subatomic particles to map rock deep underground

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Synchronous fireflies; Grand Canyon fossil footprints

Letters to the editors for the January 2026 issue of Scientific American

With the rise of private orbital habitats, vacations in space are becoming a real possibility for the ultrawealthy

A Polish mathematician's theory on the famous problem of bisecting three solids using one plane

These images, conservationists say, are evidence that wildlife corridors are paying off

A man with HIV has gone into remission after receiving bone marrow from his brother, who has a rare mutation that prevents the function of receptors that HIV binds to

After all these years, Dream Chaser—a commercial U.S. space plane—is still chasing the dream of spacecraft that can fly from orbit to airports

Scientists thought glassy substances had to be either moldable or impact-resistant—but compleximers are both

A burgeoning field is launching its first clinical trial to find out whether dialing back cell development can safely refresh aged tissues and organs