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March 13, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm24 mice launched to orbit in 2023. What happened to their bodies could help humans better survive…

We’ve all instinctively clung to another person when frightened, if only as a child clutching our mother’s hand. But if that person is scared, too, this…

It was shaping up into another ordinary day at the Colorado headquarters of the small space startup Lunar Outpost last Friday when chief executive Justin Cyrus…

A.I.? You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. A.I.?…

Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon, as the US space agency grapples with…

February 26, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmSex between Neandertals and anatomically modern humans tended to follow a specific patternInterbreeding between Neandertals and ancient…

Tens of thousands of years ago, as modern humans migrated into northerly territories inhabited by our ancient cousins, the Neanderthals, the two species met – and…

February 19, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmCats’ cancer genes show striking similarity to humans’Researchers sequenced the genomes of tumors from almost 500 domestic…

In late January a new social media site took a certain corner of the internet by storm. Moltbook was conceived as a space where AI assistants…

I have a farmer friend who regularly regales me with colourful stories of her cattle. Take the time when a beef cow called Noisette used her…