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Illustration: Shimeng Jiang/The GuardianWhen Wendy Pfrenger’s children started high school in the town of Oxford, Mississippi, she had the choice to enroll them in abstinence-only or…

As a teenager, I loved reading my horoscope in gossip magazines. But even then my friends and I knew it was nonsense. For us, this was…

March 6, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmPeople who know more about AI art find it less ethicalWhen people understand the system and process…

Some cultures used stone, others used parchment. Some even, for a time, used floppy disks. Now scientists have come up with a new way to keep…

February 12, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm‘Smart Underwear’ could help unlock secrets of human flatulenceAn intrepid team of scientists has created “Smart Underwear”…

With its undulating hills and rural charm, many of us would dream of working in the Lake District village of Coniston. But not, it seems, if…

Newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in pieces of music, researchers have discovered, offering insights into a fundamental human trait.Babies in the womb begin to respond to…

February 4, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm‘Baby cluster’ of galaxies may challenge cosmic modelsDating to only a billion years after the big bang,…

January 30, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAnother Earth or a blip in the data? We may never find outAn exoplanet called HD 137010…

You get up and go to the loo, only to find the flush doesn’t work. You try the shower, except nothing comes out. You want a…