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February 2, 20261 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmThe sun just unleashed its most powerful solar flare in yearsThe sun is experiencing a violent solar…

A new study shows most elite researchers in China remained in the country over the course of their careers.Credit: An Yuan/China News Service/VCG/GettyDeng Xiaoping’s 1979 visit…

NASA’s wet dress rehearsal—a crucial test of the agency’s Artemis II mission to the moon—has hit a snag.Engineers had been fueling the mission’s Space Launch System…

Earlier today I set you these three problems about the number 11. Here they are again with solutions.1. Funny formationYou are the coach of a football…

Bio-tooth. These are ameloblasts — specialized epithelial cells crucial for the formation of tooth enamel. The cells secrete an enamel matrix that mineralizes over time to…

February 2, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAstronomers declare rare dark-sky victory over scrapped energy project in ChileAfter a year of protests from astronomers,…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup.First up, a new AI…

Orion, the hunter, one of the most recognisable constellations in the night sky, is well placed for observation from the northern hemisphere during February. Straddling the…

We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods;…

February 1, 20261 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmU.S. quietly declassifies Cold–War era ‘JUMPSEAT’ surveillance satellitesThe National Reconnaissance Office has now declassified a satellite program…