Penguins Help to Map Antarctica's Growing Mercury Threat(scientificamerican.com)

9 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 1 comments

Gerd Faltings, who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize(scientificamerican.com)

51 points by digital55 7 months ago | 7 comments

A ‘double brood’ of periodical cicadas will emerge in 2024(scientificamerican.com)

96 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 67 comments

The New Story of the Milky Way's Surprisingly Turbulent Past(scientificamerican.com)

17 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 1 comments

Why are Alaska's rivers turning orange?(scientificamerican.com)

91 points by maciekmm 2 years ago | 41 comments

New Antimatter Physics Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider(scientificamerican.com)

35 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 6 comments

The Fall of Scientific American(thenation.com)

49 points by littlexsparkee 2 days ago | 32 comments

A Nation investigative article on how Springer Nature pressured Scientific American's editorial staff over political coverage, leading to unionization efforts and the magazine's sale to LabX.

Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain(news.mit.edu)

525 points by gmays 1 year ago | 254 comments

MIT News article on research showing attention lapses during sleep deprivation coincide with fluid flushing from the brain, a process normally occurring during sleep.

CDC data are disappearing(theatlantic.com)

614 points by doener 1 year ago | 479 comments

The Atlantic article by Katherine J. Wu reporting that the CDC has removed scientific data from public view, with more removals possibly to follow.

U.S. science is in chaos(scientificamerican.com)

795 points by presspot 4 months ago | 942 comments

Scientific American feature by Adam Rogers examining how the compact between U.S. science and politics broke down, leaving American science in chaos.

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears(nature.com)

355 points by mdhb 1 year ago | 243 comments

Nature news article reporting that scientific conferences are relocating or pausing US meetings because foreign researchers fear border and travel problems.

AI has no intent and no motivation(i-programmer.info)

37 points by aquastorm 1 month ago | 39 comments

An I Programmer opinion piece by Mike James arguing that AI has no intent or motivation, so fears of AI going rogue are misrepresentations.