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‘Chatty Turtles’ Flip the Script on the Evolutionary Origins of Vocalization in Animals
Pakinam Amer: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Pakinam Amer. Clicks, clucks, grunts, and snorts—these are not sounds that…
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Discovery Helps Computers Draw Intricate Two-Dimensional Animations
Nearly 60 years ago computer scientist Ruth Weiss of Bell Labs published a pioneering algorithm to turn three-dimensional objects into…
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Readers Respond to the August 2022 Issue
OCEAN GLOW I read Michelle Nijhuis’s article “The Mystery of Milky Seas” with great interest. I was in the U.S.…
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In Canada, scientists are struggling with stagnant funding
OTTAWA, CANADA—Earlier this month, researchers attending Canada’s major annual science policy conference here got some seemingly good news when science…
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Owl-like engravings from Copper Age may have been made by children
Slate plaques from about 5000 years ago engraved with images of what look like owls may have been children’s artwork…
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A Year of Wonder, Awe and Discovery
Last July, NASA revealed the first images sent back from its highly anticipated new space telescope. Gorgeous photographs of swirling…
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Vaccines are in short supply amid global cholera surge
On 2 October, Haiti announced that cholera had returned to the country. Memories from the previous epidemic, which killed close…
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A quantum computer has simulated a wormhole for the first time
Researchers have used Google’s Sycamore quantum computer to simulate a simplified wormhole for the first time, and sent a piece…
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Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is erupting for the first time since 1984
For the first time in nearly 40 years, the world’s largest active volcano is erupting in Hawaii, after weeks of…
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Pregnancy Changes the Brain, Possibly Promoting Bonding with a Baby
Science has largely neglected pregnancy’s effect on the brain, even though it involves dramatic surges in steroid hormones, which are…
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