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What Plant Migrations Tell Us about Ourselves New insights into why animals play, how to hunt an asteroid, and more books out now By Erica Berry An underwater view of.

Before he was bludgeoned to death and left in a Danish bog, an ancient individual now known as Vittrup Man was an emblem of past and future ways of living..

February 18, 2024 3 min read Charlotte, a stingray in a small North Carolina aquarium, is taking a DIY approach to reproduction By Stephanie Pappas A stingray in a small.

February 10, 2024 4 min read The songbirds in your backyard hop around on such itty-bitty legs. Here’s why bird legs are so skinny and how they can support a.

February 3, 2024 3 min read Here’s why the path of a solar eclipse travels in the opposite direction of that of the sun By Stephanie Pappas The sun rises.

February 1, 2024 3 min read Plutonium-pit secrets, growing up in parallel universes, the strange aftermath of a fictional wildfire, and more books out now By Amy Brady Credit: fotograzia/Getty.

January 20, 2024 3 min read Pink fairy armadillos evolved a unique double skin millions of years ago as they moved underground in response to a drying climate By Richard.

January 12, 2024 3 min read This week’s cold snap across the U.S. will be one of “the most impressive Arctic outbreaks of this century,” one climate scientist says By.

The shocking events of Jan. 6, 2021, signaled a major break from the nonviolent rallies that categorized most major protests over the past few decades. What set Jan. 6 apart.

January 1, 2024 4 min read Letters to the editors for the September 2023 issue of Scientific American Credit: Scientific American, September 2023 INTELLIGENCE PROBE In “An AI Mystery,” George Musser.