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blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Iran’s mission to the UN says country will deliver an unprecedented retaliation to any US attack following threats by Trump.Published On 28 Jan 202628…

WEALTH AND KNOWLEDGEIn “Billionaire Science, for Better or Worse” [From the Editor], David M. Ewalt suggests that with cuts to government funding, “many researchers are going…

Letter to UN chief, UNSC comes after Trump says US will intervene if Tehran violently suppresses protests.Published On 3 Jan 20263 Jan 2026Click here to share…

SETI THE RECORD STRAIGHTIn “We Probably Aren’t Alone,” Sarah Scoles describes how Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 observation of apparent “channels” or “grooves” on Mars had…

Washington has blamed ISIL (ISIS) for the attack and promised retaliation.Three US soldiers have been killed in an attack in Syria’s central city of Palmyra.It is…

Estrogen-related medications for menopause will no longer carry broad black-box warnings, Marty Makary, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), announced last week, bypassing…

HIGH TESTOSTERONEI’m grateful for the warnings threaded through Stephanie Pappas’s “The Truth about Testosterone” and would like to elaborate from personal experience. As a transgender man,…

Letters to the editors for the June 2025 issue of Scientific American

(Program note: In order to reduce the competition for attention, this column’s Monday and Thursday schedule has been changed to Monday and Friday.) Monday’s post outlined…

Actions taken by Robert F Kennedy Jr under the Trump administration have greatly diminished the ability of the US to respond to outbreaks and infectious disease…