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Emma R. Hasson is Scientific American’s Games ace and a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at the City University of New York ...

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Sarah Fortune, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her colleagues used drones and camera-equipped ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

The FDA has approved a device that aims to treat depression by sending electric current into a part of the brain known to ...

A report published by the CDC reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children ...

A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have used an AI chatbot, ...

A wax head of Elon Musk is seen on a robot dog as a part of an art installation called "Regular Animals" by digital artist ...

TikTok is rapidly growing in Africa and is being used to sell bushmeat, underscoring the role of social media in the global ...