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Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

"Point Taken: A gamified intervention that creates enlightened disagreements" Should we drop standardized testing for college or Ph.D. admissions? Allow athletes to join teams based on gender identity ...

Our ability to observe and forecast severe weather events has improved markedly over the past few decades. Yet hazardous weather continues to cause loss of life and result in other preventable social ...

Creativity is more than just a spark. New brain scan studies reveal the complicated interplay between multiple brain systems.

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During my visits to several schools in villages and nearby semi-urban areas, I encountered a troubling contradiction at the heart of science and mathematics education. These subjects—meant to explain ...

Researchers documented the activity of neurons that shape directional navigation as bats explored a remote island off the ...

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