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A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful …
A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful …
Two new studies dig into the long, curving path that cats took toward domestication from Curio…
Hidden beneath the hills of southern China, the JUNO observatory shows promise in solving neutr…
A new federal initiative aims to accelerate scientific discovery by uniting artificial intellig…
Human brains go through five distinct phases of life, each defined by its own set of characteri…
Top-line results from two large clinical trials by Novo Nordisk, the company behind Ozempic and…
Takanori Takebe’s strange investigation into whether humans can use the gut for breathing has s…
In people at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, researchers linked minimal to moderate physical acti…
Artist Michael Benson reveals the hidden beauty of snowflakes, radiolarians and lunar rocks thr…
Expectations of continued success for American science were shaken this year when the Trump adm…
A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge th…
Books about AI, Mars and infectious disease were among our top reads this year. from CurioSci…
As holiday feasts and stress approach, an expert explains how to keep your gut healthy without …
In 2025, the Trump administration froze or ended about 5,300 NIH and NSF research grants totali…
A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion a…
Newly mated parasitic queen ants invade colonies and spray their victims with a chemical irrita…
Scientific American ’s editor in chief David M. Ewalt reflects on a 20-year experiment in e-mai…
The Trump administration’s cuts to heat research come at a time when climate change is making e…
Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” …
After studying mice in the 1910s, Maude Slye concluded that vulnerability to cancer was heredit…
A child-friendly brain imaging technique is just one way neuroscientist Cat Camacho investigate…
Canada lost its official measles elimination status after a year of continuous transmission fr…
No, aliens had nothing to do with a winding 1.5-kilometer-long path of holes. First used as a m…
New research aims to tease out what exactly is happening in the brains of people with schizophr…
Researchers spot the “tipping point” before mathematicians’ moments of discovery from CurioSci…
Kendra Pierre-Louis steps in as interim host and dives into the science behind why some foods—e…
President Trump has argued the U.S. should test nuclear weapons because other countries are doi…
The popularization of the term “slop” for AI output follows a centuries-long pattern where new …
The finding is the first documented case of colonial behavior between two solitary species fro…
A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could hel…
Streams of liquid form drops thanks to unidentified disturbances. It could be the jiggling of i…
Limited COVID surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers sa…
Why saying no is harder than it should be. from CurioScience
Planetary scientist Adeene Denton runs computer simulations to investigate Pluto, the moons of …
Math and physics explain the anguish of a golf ball that zings around the rim of the hole inste…
Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way a…
A meeting of the Pan American Health Organization this week will address the resurgence of meas…
A personal experiment with the artificial intelligence music platform Suno’s latest model echoe…
A large new study reveals how early relationships with parents and friends influence how we rel…
Horror movie composers use musical tricks to hijack your nervous system and put you on edge fr…