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In this episode from January 2025, Ian Sample speaks to Keon West, a professor of social psychology at the University of London, whose new book explores…

Wildfire Smoke from Canada Blankets the U.S. Midwest in Haze of Bad Air QualityWinds from the northwest are blowing cool, dry air—but also wildfire smoke—into the…

A new Trump administration report which attempts to justify a mass rollback of environmental regulations is chock-full of climate misinformation, experts say.On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection…

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of…

The Royal Society was right to keep Elon Musk as a fellow, the UK’s new astronomer royal has said, adding there was a benefit to the…

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us).…

The English warship HMS Northumberland was built in 1679 as part of a wave of naval modernisation overseen by Samuel Pepys, a decade after he had…

The Potato’s Mysterious Family Tree Revealed—And It Includes TomatoesAbout nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to…

A 515-mile (829km) lightning flash has set a new record as the longest ever identified.The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed the new world record for the…

Miniature Neutrino Detector Promises to Test the Laws of PhysicsA relatively small detector caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a technique known as coherent scatteringBy…