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Mohammed Gulrez Zariwala (right) thinks that clearer communication from researchers working on supplements will benefit the public.Credit: Unity/University of WestminsterThe roots of the shrub Withania somnifera…

March 11, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmSports gambling could be boosting binge drinking in young menMen aged 35 or younger who already drink…

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 11 March 2026 Particles entangled over long distances can, in theory, improve the sensitivity of long-baseline interferometers that are observing weak thermal light sources.…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.The global reality TV show franchise The Traitors has a simple premise: among…

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00493-0Asexual reproduction should be an evolutionary dead end. A study of asexual fish shows that a genetic ‘copy and paste’…

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over…

NEWS AND VIEWS 11 March 2026 Oscillations in the brightness of a ‘superluminous’ supernova reveal it to be powered by a magnetized neutron star that distorts…

March 11, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmThe universe’s brightest supernovae are turbocharged by newborn magnetarsA new study explains how some supernovae are particularly…

Fears that a 100-metre-wide asteroid could be on course to collide with the moon appear to have been misplaced, according to new observations.Discovered in December 2024,…

“Uncertainty.”“Loss of trust.”“Definitely a crisis.”These are some of the ways in which researchers describe the state of affairs for government data in many countries.Do you really…