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How worried should we be about a sneeze? It depends who you ask. In the Odyssey, Telemachus sneezes after Penelope’s prayer that her husband will soon…

Some people who live to a great age put it down to an evening tot of whisky, others to staying out of trouble. Now scientists think…

Ribosomes, pictured here, synthesize proteins by translating messenger RNA (mRNA) into amino acid chains. Credit: Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo LibraryResearchers have engineered a time capsule for cells,…

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, if it feels…

‘I hate it.” I’ve asked the neuroscientist Ben Rein how he feels about the online sea of junk neuroscience we swim in – the “dopamine fasts”,…

I have a proposal to make: 2026 should be the year that you spend more time doing what you want. The new year should be the moment…

January 1, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmThe Pleiades Star Cluster Has a Secret Stellar Family Scattered across the Milky WayThe “Seven Sisters” of…

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.It’s January 1, and the self-help corners…

In recent days, five U.S. senators and two representatives requested documents from the Department of Homeland Security and a formal investigation into how a firm closely…

There’s a moment backstage at Web Summit when a member of the production crew — easily twice the size of Laurent Mekies — wraps a beefy…