This week Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning the production and sale of lab-grown meat, also called cultured meat, in the state.

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We here at Scientific American are so grateful to have you as listeners, but we aren’t surprised that so many of you have stuck around. For almost 18 years, you’ve been able to count on this feed for ...

As protests of the war in Gaza have erupted on university campuses over the past few weeks, we see once again the idealism, ...

Some extensions of the Standard Model exhibit similar discrete symmetry breaking, wherein the scalar field representing the ...