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Thousands congregated in the nation's capital and other cities in the U.S. and around the world to support scientific research and protest Trump administration–proposed budget cuts. Scientific American spoke with researchers, students and fact-loving activists at the New York City and D.C. marches.

Hypervelocity stars, and the black holes that launch them, whip through space at millions of miles per hour.

A new technique lets 3D printers create objects made of glass, which has optical and material advantages over traditional polymer.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on April 19, 2017. It is a Nature Video production.

This badger built itself a “refrigerator” in the desert to stash its food windfall.

Flitting among the flowers can be messy, sticky work.

Our understanding of how insects fly didn’t explain how mosquitoes managed to stay on the wing. It took eight slow-motion cameras to help researchers reveal how mosquito wing beats shape the air to give the insect extra lift.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on March 29, 2017. It is a Nature Video production.

Pierogi moons, rubber duckie comets and spewing ice balls: We have some very strange neighbors among the myriad planets, moons and objects that circle our sun.

Large quantum computers are difficult to build, but they can answer questions too complicated for conventional computation, unlocking new research possibilities in fields like protein modeling and data encryption.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on March 22, 2017. It is a Nature Video production.

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Researchers use eye-tracking software to peek inside a child's mind when words fail, reading eye patterns to understand language production and combat conditions such as specific language impairment.

Kea parrots have a special call that makes nearby parrots burst into play.

Vibrant images of our planet are common now, but it was only 70 years ago when we first caught a glimpse of Earth from a height of more than 100 miles. Watch a history of photographing Earth, from the first captured German rockets to iconic images like Earthrise and the Pale Blue Dot.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on March 16, 2017. It is a Nature Video production.

For thousands of years people have struggled to pin down pi. Watch how mathematicians from Archimedes on have wrapped their heads around the math of circles.