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Earth might be under pressure, but the Queen guitarist Sir Brian May is hopeful a new award from the science, music and arts festival he co-founded…

December 16, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmHow to See Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as It Swings by Earth One Last TimeThis week marks the…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into…

Three crew members left the International Space Station and landed back on Earth after 245 days in space.The cosmonaut and station commander, Sergey Ryzhikov, handed over…

Will you be seeing a pantomime this year? Birmingham’s got Gok Wan and Biggins in Robin Hood, Bradford has Sinitta in Snow White, while Bromley landed…

In early 2025, Sian traveled deep into the mountains of Shan State, on Myanmar’s eastern border with China, in search of work. He had heard from…

As the Cop30 climate talks continue in Brazil, Madeleine Finlay hears about a landscape at the opposite end of the planet facing the direct impacts of…

November 14, 20251 min readStranded Chinese Astronauts Return to Earth, but Space Junk Threats RemainThe Shenzhou 20 spacecraft was too damaged to bring its crew home…

November 6, 20252 min readA Flicker of Hope for the World’s Rarest PorpoiseThe latest report shows that the estimated number of endangered vaquita porpoises has modestly…

November 3, 20254 min readCatch the Taurid Meteor Shower—And Learn Why Scientists Are Watching It CloselyDebris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it…