Why music is a powerful tool to quiet stress in the brain
Music doesn’t just mask stress, it guides our brain back to a calm state
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Does the U.S. need more spaceports?
A new executive order calls for more than 1,000 U.S. rocket launches per year by the end of the decade. Rethinking the…
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How introverted or extroverted you are may influence how you use AI
How people interact with their inner and outer worlds may shape how they approach generative AI
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Nature may have a preferred tempo
From flashing fireflies to human music, many biological rhythms appear to converge on the same rhythmic range
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What archaeology reveals about the rise of all-powerful rulers
Autocracy wasn’t inevitable in early civilizations. But when riches were there to monopolize, strongmen and…
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These smart bricks know what object they make up
Collectively intelligent bricks figure out if they’re in a boat, chair or guitar
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Mathematicians discover the worst way to hang a painting
New solutions found to picture-hanging problems
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New brain scan tool could help treat Huntington’s disease, a devastating genetic condition
Huntington’s disease is an inherited condition that gradually robs people of their ability to move, speak and even…
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Geometry Reveals the Tricks behind Gerrymandering
Some voting districts are tilted intentionally toward one party or another—a factor in the midterms. Geometry plays a…
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2026 Ig Nobels honor cockroach milk, interspecies kissing, taunting venomous snakes, and more
The silliest science awards of the year are here, but the Ig Nobels aren’t just funny business
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Pentagon pauses controversial testosterone policy guidelines
Experts say there is not enough evidence to support broadly screening men for testosterone without any symptoms
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What’s the tech behind the record-breaking RSA-260 crack?
A researcher’s social media post that revealed how to break part of a popular encryption protocol has gone viral. But…
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This star has the strangest sky in the galaxy
The newfound star S301 orbits the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole so closely that its view of the heavens gets…
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What a novel about a dating app for dead bodies reveals about human connection
Author Sarah Pierce explores dating apps, loneliness and human connection through a novel about a corpse-matching…
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‘Unparalleled’ study finds psilocybin protects against nerve damage from chemotherapy
The findings, which were made in mice, may offer a new way to prevent a common chemotherapy side effect that can last…
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The spacecraft BepiColombo is finally nearing Mercury after 8 years in space
In a critical maneuver on Thursday, the mission successfully deployed its two science orbiters—beginning the final…
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An endangered pygmy raccoon turned trash into toys—and taught her family how, too
The endangered animals displayed a first in raccoons and their kin
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U.N. admits exceeding Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree-C warming target is ‘unavoidable’
The world is set to blow past the Paris Agreement’s longtime threshold “within the next few years,” according to a new…
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Scientists discover a mysterious wave shaped like a decagon in Saturn’s atmosphere
The strange structure appears to have formed recently, but nobody can explain exactly why
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How the super El Niño could turbocharge warming in the Himalayas
After one of the worst natural disasters in the region’s history, attention is turning to the looming super El Niño
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Top medical leaders urge Americans to get their flu and COVID shots in lieu of CDC vaccine campaign
The Trump administration has so far been silent on flu, COVID and RSV vaccine guidance for the coming season, even as…
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GLP-1 weight-loss medication could slow aging and extend lifespan
Giving old mice semaglutide—commonly sold as Wegovy or Ozempic—extends their lifespan remarkably, a new study finds
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The risk of high blood pressure in pregnancy is rising—and the damage can be life-changing
A recent CDC analysis says that, between 2016 and 2024, the rate of high blood pressure among pregnant women rose by 73…
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Why this Canadian island appeared to disappear
A floating island in a Canadian reservoir moved more than 30 kilometers across the water—here’s why
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Newly discovered ‘demon cave fish’ hid out in Alabama military installation for 40 years
Scientists named this oddball creature after the Demogorgon from Stranger Things
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The hackers protecting America’s water supply
Cybersecurity experts are volunteering to keep America’s utilities safe from attacks
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House passes stopgap bill that pauses changes to federal science grant-making process
The proposed changes, which would have given control of science funding to appointed bureaucrats, were criticized…
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Have we finally found dark matter?
The world’s biggest dark matter search saw a particle it cannot explain
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Why the Grand Canyon flash flood was so devastating
Experts explain why a monsoon storm turned so deadly
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Where is the Roman Telescope in space?
The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is headed toward a Lagrange point, a critical position in outer space where…
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Growth hormone peptides promise to stall aging—but does the science stack up?
Sermorelin, tesamorelin and other growth hormone peptides are being touted as antiaging elixirs, but what evidence is…
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Bonus crossword: Tints of life
Play a bonus science crossword that ties into even more stories from the September 2026 issue of Scientific American.
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The brain, solved
The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses
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Nepal’s deadly debris avalanche is a warning for the rest of the world
Avalanches like the one that devastated parts of Nepal and Tibet are becoming more common thanks to climate change.…
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Mathematician discovers how to fold the smallest origami doughnut
How many times do you have to fold a piece of paper to make a doughnut? After decades, a mathematician has determined…
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What’s next for NASA’s new Roman Space Telescope?
After a flawless launch, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a mission to solve some of the universe’s biggest…
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