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Ukrainian soldiers test drones in Donetsk, Febuary 2025.Credit: Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via GettyMilitary budgets are growing, especially in larger economies. In 2024, global military spending…

In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces…

In 2019, Robert Chelsea made medical history, becoming the first black patient to ever have a full face transplant.He had previously suffered from a devastating car…

Abnormal tau proteins can form tangled fibres that accumulate in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s (slice at left). (Brain without Alzheimer’s shown at right.)Credit: Alfred…

February 19, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmOur solar system is surrounded by weird peanut-shaped objects. Astronomers think they know whyA study published today…

What was I thinking? This is not as easy or straightforward a question as I would have thought. As soon as you try to record and…

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 20 February 2026 An adhesive inspired by the foot pads of geckos allows a robot to scale both smooth and rough vertical surfaces.

February 20, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmNewly discovered horned dinosaur was like a unicorn from hellSpinosaurus mirabilis was a force to be reckoned…

In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out…

Environmental journalists at last year’s COP30 climate meeting in Belém, Brazil, interview the French ecology and biodiversity minister Monique Barbut. Credit: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via GettyIn June…