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Back to SearchNight Flights Are No Sweat for Tropical Bees
New research uses night vision to see how nocturnal bees navigate the dark.
4 years, 5 months ago
These Bacteria Steal from Iron and Could Be Secretly Helping to Curb Climate Change
Photoferrotrophs have been around for billions of years on Earth, and new research suggests that they have played an outsize roll in the natural capt…
4 years, 5 months ago
COVID, Quickly, Episode 15: Booster Shot Approvals--plus Vaccines for Kids?
Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and J…
4 years, 5 months ago
Dinosaurs Lived--and Made Little Dinos--in the Arctic
New research shows that the prehistoric giants were even cooler than we thought
4 years, 5 months ago
During a Rodent Quadrathlon, Researchers Learn That Ground Squirrels Have Personalities
The rodents’ personalities may help them to secure territory and avoid prey.
4 years, 5 months ago
A Car Crash Snaps the Daydreaming Mind into Focus
One researcher’s poorly timed attention lapse flipped a car—and pushed science forward.
4 years, 5 months ago
COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden's New Plan
Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and J…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Atoms [Sponsored]
Gerd Binnig shared The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience in 2016 for inventing the atomic force microscope. What transformative impact has this invention ha…
4 years, 6 months ago
In Missouri, a Human 'Bee' Works to Better Understand Climate Change's Effects
Researcher Matthew Austin has become a wildflower pollinator, sans the wings.
4 years, 6 months ago
These Baby Bats, like Us, Were Born to Babble
The greater sac-winged bat develops its own language in much the way we do.
4 years, 6 months ago