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February 6, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmSeattle heads back to the Super Bowl. What even is a seahawk anyway?Many different bird species have…

Monogamy, you may have heard, is in crisis. Fewer people are in relationships, let alone opting to be in one ’til death. And even those who…

LLMs greatly improved physicians’ diagnostic accuracy.Credit: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via GettyLarge language models (LLMs) can pass postgraduate medical examinations and help clinicians to make diagnoses, at least…

February 7, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmLindsey Vonn’s knees reveal the toll of elite skiing—and the body’s resilienceThe decorated Olympic skier has had…

Hidden-market promoters of weight-loss drugs are running social media “giveaway” competitions that offer powerful, unlicensed medicines as prizes.The Guardian has been monitoring WhatsApp and Telegram groups…

Adam Levy 00:00 Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Off Limits: Academia’s Taboos, a podcast from Nature Careers. In this episode: alcohol. Alcohol and academia…

Wildfire prevention has traditionally relied on blunt tools, such as rigid inspection cycles and emergency power shutoffs. Now a new generation of technology start-ups is pitching…

A pioneering test of period blood for signs of cervical cancer could be a convenient, non-invasive and accurate way of screening for the disease, researchers have…

Money could become harder to come by for European scientists if the overall European Research Council pot does not dramatically increase.Credit: Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty The…

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of fundamental particles heated to trillions…