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- Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Let Teenagers Sleep (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Voyager spacecraft begin to power down (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it (www.scientificamerican.com)
- The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Pesticides are killing the world's soils (www.scientificamerican.com)
- The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Two pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine doesn't work (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Working remotely can more than halve an office employee’s carbon footprint (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water (www.scientificamerican.com)
- September was the most anomalously hot month ever (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Some people who appear to be in a coma may be conscious (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders: research (www.scientificamerican.com)
- The little-known story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics (www.scientificamerican.com)
- AI models that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Space junk removal is not going smoothly (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Doctors complete first successful face and whole-eye transplant (www.scientificamerican.com)
- A number system invented by Inuit schoolchildren (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after Fukushima (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Bad science and bad statistics in the courtroom convict innocent people (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Crime rings trafficking sand (www.scientificamerican.com)
- The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Brain Waves Synchronize When People Interact (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome (www.scientificamerican.com)
- High IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Why kids are afraid to ask for help (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Stars that race through space at nearly the speed of light (www.scientificamerican.com)
- People who jump to conclusions show other kinds of thinking errors (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Sometimes mindlessness is better than mindfulness (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Arxiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning (www.scientificamerican.com)
- The most boring number in the world is... (www.scientificamerican.com)
- How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life (www.scientificamerican.com)
- How a carnivorous mushroom poisons its prey (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Satellites Reveal Cause of Uttarakhand Flood That Devastated Hydroelectric Dams (www.scientificamerican.com)
- AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Quantum astronomy could create telescopes hundreds of kilometers wide (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters (www.scientificamerican.com)
- The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths (www.scientificamerican.com)
- MDMA moves from club drug to real therapy (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Paul Erdős, the most prolific mathematician (www.scientificamerican.com)
- The lifesaving sled dog Balto had genes unlike those of dog breeds today (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Physicists measure the gravitational force between the smallest masses yet (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Ketchup is a non-Newtonian fluid (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Spiders seem to have REM-like sleep and may even dream (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nursery (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Grass makes better ethanol than corn does (2008) (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Giant 'Gravity Hole' in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Conversations almost never end when both parties want them to: study (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us? (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008) (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Deadly fungi are an emerging microbe threat (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Coastal Arctic Sea Ice Is Thinning Faster Than Previously Thought (www.scientificamerican.com)
- When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe? (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Fish skin can heal other animals' eye injuries (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Joys and pains of insects (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Surprising supernova scars cover the Earth (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Simple mathematical law predicts movement in cities around the world (www.scientificamerican.com)
- The Art of Mathematics in Chalk (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Valley Fever Is a Growing Fungal Threat to Outdoor Workers (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Light can be reflected not only in space but also in time (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Rural children now grow slightly taller than city children in wealthy countries (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Why are Alaska's rivers turning orange? (www.scientificamerican.com)
- When scientific orthodoxy resembles religious dogma (www.scientificamerican.com)
- We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So (www.scientificamerican.com)
- A hormone may boost cognition in Down syndrome (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Our memory is better than experts thought (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Is consciousness part of the fabric of the universe? (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Crows are capable of recursion, scientists claim (www.scientificamerican.com)
- A ‘double brood’ of periodical cicadas will emerge in 2024 (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Humans are more dependent on water than many other mammals (www.scientificamerican.com)
- The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Birds make better bipedal bots than humans do (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Images in the mind’s eye are quick sketches that lack simple, real-world details (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Quantum physics falls apart without imaginary numbers (www.scientificamerican.com)
- The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Robot AI beats world-class curling competitors (2020) (www.scientificamerican.com)
- AI Doesn't Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Social animals seek power in surprisingly complex ways (www.scientificamerican.com)
- The Tunguska Mystery 100 Years Later (2008) (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Acting out dreams predicts Parkinson’s and other brain diseases (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Humans Could Live up to 150 Years, New Research Suggests (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Ultrasound Enables Remote 3-D Printing – Even in the Human Body (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why (www.scientificamerican.com)
- Ruins of Emperor Nero’s Theater Discovered Near Vatican (www.scientificamerican.com)
- A blank wall can show how many people are in a room and what they’re doing (www.scientificamerican.com)
- System Analysis and Programming (1966) (www.scientificamerican.com)