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December 19, 20251 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmOffshore Wind Farm in China Becomes a Haven for Oysters, Barnacles, and More, Study FindsA wind farm…

The difficulty of detecting AI-tool use in peer review is proving problematic.Credit: BrianAJackson/iStock via GettyIt’s almost impossible to know whether a peer-review report has been generated…

Just nine months since its launch, NASA’s newest space telescope has unveiled a jaw-dropping map of the cosmos unlike any we have seen before.Spectro-Photometer for the…

In Stranger Things, the supernatural villain Vecna rules a nightmarish parallel world called the Upside Down. Credit: Netflix/Everett/ShutterstockThroughout its five seasons, the Netflix show Stranger Things…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.With some estimates placing the number of Hawaiian monk seals left in the…

The Whispers of RockAnjana Khatwa Bridge Street Press (2025)In 1902, on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, a group of women reported that water was boiling…

Nature, Published online: 18 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04078-1Some cycads warm up their reproductive organs to attract specially equipped pollinating beetles in the dark.

When Czech writer Karel Čapek coined the word “robot” in his 1920 play R.U.R., he imagined tireless “artificial workers” liberating people from drudgery. The lead character…

Kenyan health workers wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine supplied by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Credit: Simon Maina/AFP via GettyThe United States is rolling out bilateral…

December 18, 20253 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmHere’s How Much Practice You Need to Become the Best in the WorldAre you a specialist or…