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Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Hope your February is off to a great start. Let’s kick...
Can Trump Just Order New Names for Denali and the Gulf...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the...
7 Curiousssss Snake Facts for the Lunar New Year
January 28, 20255 min readCelebrate Lunar New Year with 7 Snake FactsIn honor of the Year of the Snake, let’s appreciate the strange anatomy...
Space Weather and Solar Max Make 2025 an Exciting Year in...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Life as we know it couldn’t exist without the sun, but we know surprisingly...
Which Foods Are the Most Ultraprocessed? New System Ranks Them
January 29, 20254 min readWhich Foods Are the Most Ultraprocessed? New System Ranks ThemScientists have created a ranking of grocery store items based on...
4 Things to Know as RFK, Jr., Confirmation Hearing Approaches
President Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health...
Ancient Asteroid Sample Reveals Life’s Surprisingly Common Extraterrestrial Ingredients
The deserts of Utah are notorious for supposed alien visitations, but a real extraterrestrial emissary that parachuted to a soft landing there in September...
Trump Funding Freeze Could Set Disaster Recovery Back ‘for Years’
CLIMATEWIRE | The federal government Tuesday shut down the online system it uses to distribute billions in disaster aid after President Donald Trump ordered...
What Trump’s First Days Say about Science in the New Administration
January 29, 20254 min readWhat Trump’s First Days Say about Science in the New AdministrationTrump seems intent on freezing out professional scientists, especially those...
Trump Asks SpaceX to Return NASA’s ‘Stranded’ Astronauts to Earth ASAP
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