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Natural Disasters
Dinosaur Asteroid Hit Worst-Case Place
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Policy & Ethics
Racism and Sexism in Science Haven’t Disappeared
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Funky Cheese Rinds Release an Influential Stench
The volatile compounds released by microbial communities on cheese rinds shape and shift a cheese's microbiome. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Space
Space
Can a Moon Base be Safe for Astronauts?
Natural Disasters
Natural Disasters
Dinosaur Asteroid Hit Worst-Case Place
Policy & Ethics
Policy & Ethics
Racism and Sexism in Science Haven’t Disappeared
Space
Space
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Successfully Touches Asteroid Bennu
Evolution
Evolution
Gallery: The Maya Who Escaped Spanish Conquest
Biology
Biology
Vicious Woodpecker Battles Draw an Avian Audience
Physics
Physics
Apple-Sized Stars, a Potato-Shaped Earth and the Force That Creates Our Reality
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Conservation
River Ecosystem Restoration Can Mean Just Add Water
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Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50
Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology
Rogue Rocky Planet Found Adrift in the Milky Way
The diminutive world and others like it could help astronomers probe the mysteries of planet formation
Leading Scientists Urge Voters to Dump Trump
Journals and Nobelists, usually cautious, cite unprecedented damage and incompetence in calls for a U.S. leadership change
Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden
We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now
First Room-Temperature Superconductor Excites and Baffles Scientists
A compound of hydrogen, carbon and sulfur has broken a symbolic barrier—but its high-pressure conditions make it difficult to analyze
Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia
Actual research shows that sex is anything but binary
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Apple-Sized Stars, a Potato-Shaped Earth and the Force That Creates Our Reality
Life’s up and downs may seem as inevitable as gravity, but somehow 2020 feels worse than usual. Just as a thought experiment, what if this year actually did get so weird that it even ushered in a change in how gravity affects our material universe?...
