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Prosecutors revived a theory in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial case this week, suggesting she had faked a suicide attempt after allegedly strangling her three children.While…

Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, countless experiments have confirmed its predictions;…

During the ”snowball Earth” period about 700m years ago, Earth’s climate shut down. The planet was encased in ice and insulated from seasonal variations: spring, summer,…

February 19, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm‘Mind-blowing’ baby chick study challenges a theory of how humans evolved languageNewborn chicks connect sounds with shapes…

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2022:…

Prime numbers are like the atoms of mathematics: they are the indivisible building blocks from which all other numbers are composed. For millennia, these numbers, divisible…

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human brain?Outside of the theory itself being devised by conscious humans…

December 17, 20254 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmNew Views of Solar System Moons Complicate Ocean Worlds TheoryOceans hiding within the crusts of distant moons…

December 16, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmRFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New BillPresident Donald Trump is expected to…

Nasa has rejected comments made by Kim Kardashian about the 1969 moon landing and confirmed that it did, in fact, happen.During Thursday’s episode of The Kardashians,…