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Traces of illicit drugs in wastewater in England show spikes in usage during bank holiday weekends, heatwaves and sports events, while the Eurovision song contest ranks…

The University of Michigan wants to bring hundreds of jobs and a high-performance computing facility to a township nearly 20 miles away from its Ann Arbor…

March 19, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmWhen did plate tectonics on Earth begin? New research finds some of the earliest cluesScientists have found…

In Europe, the diversity of plants was greatest in the years before the Black Death, at a time when small farms and pastures existed alongside grasslands…

At first glance, the psychiatric ward in Trondheim looks much like any other unit caring for patients in acute mental distress. But as evening falls, filters…

A mixed community of bacteria — some of which are found in the gut — imaged using a scanning electron microscope.Steve Gschmeissner/SPLAs the saying goes, you…

Taking a multivitamin every day for two years appears to slow some markers of biological ageing – albeit to a small degree, research suggests.While chronological age…

Earth’s leading alien hunters believe extraterrestrials could be out there, they’re just having a hard time getting through to us because it’s stormy in space.Reminiscent of…

You have full access to this article via your institution. Zhen Xu, Ellen Roche and Xiwen Gong (left to right) are this year’s recipients of the…

Sylvia Hurtado, a Distinguished Professor in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, has been elected the 112th president of the American Educational Research…