Amazing slideshow about Orion: NASA's groundbreaking crew capsule designed for deep space.
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A crew capsule designed for deep space made its debut launch from Cape Canaveral
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New research suggests that all of Earth's molecules didn't always twist in the same direction.
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All life on Earth is made of molecules that twist in the same direction. New research reveals that this may not always have been so
scientificamerican.com|By Emily Singer,Quanta Magazine

No glasses necessary. New screens on smartphones and iPads self-correct to suit your vision needs.
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Self-correcting screens on smartphones and iPads tailor themselves to a viewer's vision—no glasses necessary
scientificamerican.com|By Rachel Nuwer

Medical providers are using hot-spotting methods to cut expenses and provide better care for patients.
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A MacArthur “genius” grant winner is now formally studying how hot-spotting method cuts expensive emergency room visits and delivers better care 
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What happens when 2 social psychologists get married? Solid, empirical advice for any couple.
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Many of you have likely noticed that I have been on an extended hiatus from blogging due to an especially crazy 2014, filled with lots of ...
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Have you heard the latest hype about Enterovirus D68? Get the facts here. [PODCAST]
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Enterovirus D68 is one of the many viruses that cause the common cold. But it can also cause breathing difficulties in some patients. If you have children, especially if they suffer from asthma, read on for more from the House Call Doctor about this virus.
scientificamerican.com|By Sanaz Majd MD

New critical habitat for arctic ringed seals?
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Arctic ringed seals (Phoca hispida hispida) could soon get a critical habitat more than twice the size of California within the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas. ...
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Plastic is not so indestructible for these bacteria lurking in your pantry pests.
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Microbes in the guts of grain-eating moth larvae might speed the biodegradation of polyethylene
scientificamerican.com|By Janet Pelley,Chemical & Engineering News

Epic quest to develop a useful quantum computer may finally pay off.
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A 30-year slog to develop a useful quantum computer may finally be on the verge of paying dividends
scientificamerican.com|By Elizabeth Gibney,Nature magazine

Popular on our site: Scientists don't think brain training makes people any smarter.
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Scientists doubt claims from brain training companies
scientificamerican.com|By David Z. Hambrick

The launch of Orion spacecraft has been delayed due to rocket glitch.
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A series of delays thwarted repeated liftoff attempts on Thursday. A second attempt is set for Friday morning
scientificamerican.com|By Tariq Malik,SPACE.com

Are working-class kids not aggressive enough at school?
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Working-class kids ask for help from teachers less often and less agressively than do their middle-class counterparts  
scientificamerican.com|By Erika Beras

2014 will be the hottest year ever measured.
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The World Meteorological Organization thinks this year will provide a new heat record for the planet
scientificamerican.com|By Gayathri Vaidyanathan,ClimateWire

Endangered Cuban crocodiles may be losing their genetic identity due to interbreeding.
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Interbreeding with other species could overwhelm the animal, causing it to go extinct
scientificamerican.com|By Allie Wilkinson

A 2011 infographic on driving with dangerous distractions.
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New U.S. Ebola vaccine cleared its safety test.
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The candidate drug will be tested next to see how well it can help prevent infection
scientificamerican.com|By Ewen Callaway,Nature magazine

How does a government shutdown affect science?
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Congress (probably) won’t defund the government next week. But if they do, their decision will be disastrous for science.
scientificamerican.com|By Joshua A. Krisch

New photo contest for Scientific American readers. Enter by December 12th.
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Whether it’s oatmeal or kimchee, snap the foods that get you going in the morning
scientificamerican.com|By Christine Gorman

World's oldest engraving shows that Homo erectus was also capable of symbolic thought.
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It is getting harder and harder to figure out what distinguished Homo sapiens from other members of the human family and fueled our extraordinary success as ...
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Can solar power compete with fossil fuels in the U.S.?
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Can solar power compete with fossil fuels?
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A look at the industrial disaster of Bhopal 30 years later.
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In 1989, I was working as an at editor at IEEE Spectrum when I was assigned to write a feature on Bhopal. The thirtieth anniversary of ...
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Graphene tests stronger against bullets than steel. [VIDEO]
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A ridiculously thin sheet of carbon atoms goes under the gun (really) and shows it could be superb body armor
scientificamerican.com|By Matthew Gunther,ChemistryWorld

What do you think John Muir would do now?
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Scientific American asks four conservationists about their to-do lists
scientificamerican.com|By Roger Drouin

Researchers can hijack a plant's biology to produce human antibodies.
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( n .) A human antibody produced by plants
scientificamerican.com|By Annie Sneed

These eel larvae are like transparent ribbons. Check out the video.

Author’s note: This is the latest post in the Wonderful Things series. You can read more about this series here. It is startling how different the larvae ...
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Exciting space news: new spacecraft could launch to Apollo-era distances for the first time in decades.
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The Orion spacecraft could eventually take astronauts to an asteroid or Mars
scientificamerican.com|By Clara Moskowitz

Genetic mutation 10 million years ago gave people the ability to better consume alcohol.
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A single genetic mutation 10 million years ago endowed human ancestors with an enhanced ability to break down ethanol, likely as they shifted to a terrestrial lifestyle
scientificamerican.com|By Charles Q. Choi,LiveScience

Humans have a new superpower: seeing infrared light when photons double up.
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Our little-known ability to see infrared light could occur when pairs of photons combine their energies to appear as one "visible" photon
scientificamerican.com|By Katharine Sanderson,Nature magazine

Now on Scientific American MIND: Hearing - it's not just for your ears anymore.

Everyone learns about the senses from when we are very young. We smell with our noses, taste with our tongues, see with our eyes, touch with ...
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A better user interface for the Master.

Movie audiences who went to theaters this fall to see The Theory of Everything got a glimpse of the challenges physicist Stephen Hawking has overcome to ...
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What we can learn from see-through rats.

A Body Worlds–inspired method promises to speed up biomedical research
scientificamerican.com|By Ryan Bradley

Significant efforts to combat climate change are happening now, regardless of what the diplomats do (or don't do).

Imagine if the world's two largest polluters unilaterally decide to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the ubiquitous gas responsible for the bulk of global warming. At ...
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REVEALED! The real truth of Jupiter's Red Spot.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is its particular crimson shade because of the interaction of ultraviolet light and specific chemical compounds in the gas giant's atmosphere. Lee Billings reports.       
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Might as well go back to watching the tube.

Scientists doubt claims from brain training companies
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Why is it impossible mathematically to perfectly tune a piano?
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The integers are a unique factorization domain, so we can’t tune pianos. That is the saddest thing I know about the integers. I talked to a Girl ...
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An amazing slideshow of images of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies.
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Images in a new book by astronomer James Geach shed light on the genesis and destiny of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors
scientificamerican.com|By James Geach

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A revered particle physics research institution is starting an artist-in-residency program just shy of its 50th anniversary. Who's the lucky artist and what can we expect?

When a revered research institution reaches out to a fine artist to create its first ever artist-in-residency program, we should all sit up and take notice. ...
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In the absence of any other approved therapy or vaccine for Ebola, patients in the U.S. (including one of the first Americans to contract Ebola in this outbreak, aid worker Kent Brantly) have received blood transfusions from Ebola survivors.

When the World Health Organization recently named blood transfusions from Ebola survivors as its priority experimental therapy for the disease ravaging west Africa there was only ...
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American particle physics may be down, but not out.

In the last few years, stories have abounded in the press of the successes of the Large Hadron Collider, most notably the discovery of the Higgs ...
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Will the blood of Ebola survivors prove effective for treating new cases?
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When the World Health Organization recently named blood transfusions from Ebola survivors as its priority experimental therapy for the disease ravaging west Africa there was only ...
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Will it help to put cameras on cops?

Wearing small recording devices could reduce violent confrontations, but without careful planning and better research, the attempt could backfire
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Please let there be wormholes big enough to fly through, please please please....

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, its visuals and the strong performances ...
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Extreme weather in arctic communities proves dangerous to people as well as animals.
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Extreme weather in places like Svalbard show how Arctic communities will be threatened
scientificamerican.com|By Christa Marshall,ClimateWire

Self-assembling nanococcoons could help transport genes or drugs into cells.
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Researchers have designed peptides, short chains of amino acids, that spontaneously package DNA into tiny capsules that could offer a new route for drug delivery or gene transport
scientificamerican.com|By Jyoti Madhusoodanan,Chemical & Engineering News

"Illustrator and designer Ron Guyatt has created a massive series of posters making our own solar system fascinating again."
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Mars - Valles Marineris © Ron Guyatt Sol System - Meteor Shower © Ron Guyatt In an explosion of heroic art deco design, illustrator and designer Ron ...
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A look at in-patient care from a fourth-year medical student.
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The 42-year-old man sits up straighter in the hospital bed and grins a toothless grin. “Those other doctors, they don’t understand. They don’t get what I’m going through, you know?”
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Drowning is a shockingly common cause of death for kids. [PODCAST]
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The World Health Organization issues a new report on the neglected public health issue of drowning. Dina Fine Maron reports
scientificamerican.com|By Dina Fine Maron

50 sea turtles had to be treated for hypothermia in Texas.
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More than 50 green sea turtles were released into the Gulf of Mexico after recovering from cold-stunning, or hypothermia, brought on by a drastic drop in water temperature.
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There are disturbing implications for being able to control how people feel about their memories.
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One area of brain science that has drawn intense interest in recent years is the study of what psychologists call reconsolidation—a ponderous technical term that, once ...
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