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People living with obesity are 70% more likely to be hospitalised by or die from an infection, with one in 10 infection-related deaths globally linked to…

Surveys are a cornerstone of social-science research. Over the past two decades, online recruitment platforms — such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, Prolific, Cloud Research’s Prime Panels…

February 9, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmElon Musk says SpaceX will prioritize a city on the moon instead of a colony on MarsSpaceX’s…

People who have a couple of teas or coffees a day have a lower risk of dementia and marginally better cognitive performance than those who avoid…

Josh Miele explains the nuances of a tactile map of a Bay Area Rapid Transit station.Credit: Laurie UdeskyWorking scientist profilesThis article is part of an occasional…

February 9, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmMathematicians issue a major challenge to AI: show us your workFrustrated by AI industry claims of proving…

new video loaded: Why Mountain Lions in California Are ThreatenedSix subpopulations of mountain lions in California face mounting threats, including habitat fragmentation from highways, urban sprawl,…

Imagine that you want to know the most efficient way to make a torus—a doughnut-shaped mathematical object—from origami paper. But this torus, which is a surface,…

Deaths caused by a synthetic opioid that is hundreds of times stronger than heroin may have been underestimated by up to a third across the UK,…

Early on the morning of 11 February, the waning moon passes close to Antares, the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius.Antares is a red supergiant star…