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Scientists have hailed a potentially life-changing drug for children with a hard to treat form of epilepsy, after promising early clinical trial results.Dravet syndrome is a…

In the early 1980s, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs described the computer as “a bicycle for our minds”. He was inspired by a Scientific American graphic he’d…

Jumping to a new research topic is intimidating but can enable diverse teams and creative breakthroughs.Credit: GettyIn science, careers are often imagined as linear: a direct…

February 24, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmHorses whinny by making sounds in a unique way that is not seen in other animalsThe distinctive…

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.Let’s start off with a…

[CLIP: Skates cut across the ice at an ice rink, and music plays in the background.]Kendra Pierre-Louis: So we’re out here today in lower Manhattan ice-skating.…

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 19, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmRobot libraries filled with tiny glass ‘books’ could store data for millenniaA Microsoft Research study suggests glass…

Alarm bells are ringing in the UK research community. Physics departments may close and researchers leave the UK. What is happening and why?The alarm comes from…

Artificial-intelligence agents can hire people for real-world tasks on the website RentAHuman.ai.Credit: Courtesy of RentAHuman.aiYour new boss is here, and all it asks you to do…