James Cameron tells Scientific American how his latest documentary Secrets of the Bees reveals an intimate view of the inside ...

Infections of the BA.3.2 variant of the COVID-causing coronavirus are still at very low levels, but experts are concerned it ...

Snakes that gain poisons from eating toads seem to know when they’re toxic by keeping track of what they last ate ...

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Atmospheric scientist Perry Samson was doing fieldwork when he was unexpectedly caught inside a tornado—making him one of the few such people who have lived to tell the tale ...

Claire Cramer, the executive director of quantum science at the University of California, Berkeley, who was in attendance, expressed optimism about the potential of solid-state nuclear clocks: “This ...

Just exert a little self-control, you tell yourself. But it’s so hard! People frequently think of self-control as something ...

Cortical Labs says the stunt points toward a new kind of low-power computing—and perhaps a new way to study neurological ...

A functioning Gizmo would never lie and call a good Gizmo broken, so if one declares the other to be malfunctioning, they can’t both be good. Either one of the two Gizmos is functioning and correctly ...

Gold will not dissolve ia muriatic acid alone, although it will be attacked by chlorine. To dissolve it in muriatic acid, therefore, a substance must be added to liberate the chlorine. Peroxyd of ...

Common cotton is one of the forms of lignine, which is a compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen (the same as wood), but when subjected to the action of nitric acid, nitrogen enters into its ...