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An AI tool named after Albert Einstein (pictured) was taken down shortly after it was released.Credit: GK History Images/AlamyOn 23 February, academics across the world took…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.Over the past three and a half decades, journalist and author Michael Pollan…

Science has not yet settled whether an all-consuming social-media habit qualifies as a true addiction. Credit: Paul Hanna/AFP/GettyIs social media addictive to young people? A jury…

February 5, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmWeird new object escalates ‘black hole star’ debateResearchers have found what might be a little red dot…

As NASA ramps up the preparation to send four people on a trip around the moon and back, a debate is raging among experts and former…

Are we being injured and killed by ubiquitous, teeny-tiny shards of toxic plastic? Or aren’t we? For many months, the Guardian has reported a series of…

Education technology—including school districts’ 1-to-1 computing initiatives—impedes students’ ability to learn and offers a portal to platforms that harm children’s mental health, experts told lawmakers on…

By now, many of us have seen the horrifying footage out of Minneapolis this past week, of an ICE officer fatally shooting Renee Nicole Good, a…

Caleb Williams or Jayden Daniels? The future of the Chicago Bears or the future of the Washington Commanders?There was no way a year ago you could…

Towards the end of her life, I was a friend of the writer Jan Morris. I had known her for many years and, much to my…