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Imagine that you want to know the most efficient way to make a torus—a doughnut-shaped mathematical object—from origami paper. But this torus, which is a surface,…

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, we have an update…

No one likes to do something they find unpleasant. Who among us hasn’t put off icky things such as a tedious work assignment, a fridge deep…

new video loaded: Scientists Discover Colossal, Stinking Spider Web in Pitch-Black CaveResearchers discovered a spider web they said spanned about 1,140 square feet in a narrow…

Archaeologists in Peru have found new evidence showing how the oldest known civilization in the Americas adapted and survived a climate catastrophe without resorting to violence.A…

The fossilised remains of two dinosaurs locked in combat have unleashed a fresh drama, suggesting diminutive specimens thought to be Tyrannosaurus rex teenagers could instead be…

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime…

new video loaded: Treasure Hunters Discover Coins Lost in a 1715 ShipwrecktranscriptBacktranscriptTreasure Hunters Discover Coins Lost in a 1715 ShipwreckMore than 1,000 gold and silver coins,…

TikTok and London’s Southbank Centre have announced Crescendo, a new accelerator program that aims to discover the next generation of classical music talent. The program will…

The idea of hiring your “first critical engineer” is getting a serious reality check at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Join…