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A decade ago, we and others launched a tool for clarifying the roles of each author of a research paper. The Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) includes…

Today’s puzzle is about transport links and soapy water.The four townsFour towns are situated at the corners of a square, as below:What is the road system…

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s,…

It is tiny, hairy and “German” – and it could be hiding underneath a piece of driftwood near you. Citizen scientists and expert conchologists are teaming…

Science is a slaughterhouse. We rarely acknowledge the degree to which animal life underwrites the research that provides us with medicines, or the regulation that keeps us…

This episode was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors.Michael Benson: So the snowflakes were a different…

A piece of stone age “gum” chewed by a teenage girl 10,500 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists in Estonia.The Institute of History and Archaeology…

I swung up to the Cloudberry Tower in a hot morning drizzle. You could see the place was on the blink from halfway down Dagenham Dock…

November 21, 20252 min readCDC to End Monkey Research ProgramThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to end its monkey research program will affect studies…

US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and JD Vance shared a stage at the MAHA Summit in Washington DC.Credit: Alex Wroblewski/AFP/GettyWashington DCSocial-media influencers and anti-ageing…