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Last week, a UN report declared that the world has entered an era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ with many human water systems past the point at…

Tools of the Scribe: How Writing Systems, Technology, and Human Factors Interact to Affect the Act of Writing Brian Roark et al. Springer (2025)The world’s oldest…

On the night of 27 January, the moon passes in front of the Pleiades star cluster, temporarily hiding (occulting) some of its brightest members from view.The…

“Socotra, the Yemeni island that I’m from, has the world’s last dragon’s blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari) forest. We have other threatened plants too, including cucumber trees…

January 26, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmWhy freezing rain can be so much more dangerous than snowFreezing rain can cause ice to accumulate…

Experts have created an app that uses artificial intelligence to identify dinosaurs from the footprints left behind after they stomped across the land tens of millions…

Around ten years after the Paris climate agreement was adopted, the world is again at a crucial moment. In 2015, 195 countries committed to hold global…

January 25, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmJWST unveils most intricate map yet of cosmic dark matterAstronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of…

My mother, Barbara Hurman, who has died aged 100, was an archaeologist specialising in the identification and illustration of finds – the items disinterred during the…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.It’s a mistake you hopefully only make once. In your…