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On an island in New Zealand’s remote southern fjords, one of the world’s strangest and rarest parrots – the kākāpō – is caring for her tiny…

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI won approval on Tuesday to run 41 methane gas turbines at its “Colossus 2” datacenter in northern Mississippi. That’s nearly…

March 10, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmWhat is the ‘acid rain’ in the wake of U.S. bombings in Iran?Iranian residents have reported headaches, difficulty breathing,…

At the crumbling colonial farm buildings in Porto Real, agricultural worker Kimilson Lima, 43, has signed the agreement and he’s happy. “With this money we can…

As U.S. and Israeli forces pummel Iran, oil installations and a desalination plant have come under fire. Experts warn that attacks on key infrastructure threaten the…

In the two-way race between the U.S. and China to put humans back on the moon, the lunar south pole is widely considered the most prized…

Easing the windfall tax on the North Sea would do nothing for hard-pressed consumers, and merely fatten the profits of oil and gas companies, economists and…

Israel’s bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure will have major long-term environmental repercussions, experts have warned, as monitors admitted they were struggling to keep track of the…

Residents of the coastal Queensland city of Bundaberg have been told to evacuate immediately as the region braces for major flooding in the wake of a…

March 9, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmLong-lost page of Archimedes’ writings rediscovered in FranceThe discovery adds to the Archimedes Palimpsest, an important medieval…