December 12, 2025 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm In a First, Photos Show Moths Sipping a Moose’s Tears Moths sometimes drink the tears of other animals, but the behavior has mostly been observed in the tropics. New photographs show only the second observation outside of that area By Gennaro Tomma edited by…
(1) You have been invited to sit at the periodic table. Among those mythological figures, and the elements named after them, are the 12 titans (titanium), Prometheus (promethium) and Thor (thorium). The Nobel prizewinners and their element namesakes include Ernest Rutherford (rutherfordium), Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie (curium) and Albert Einstein (einsteinium). The “noble types”…
December 12, 2025 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm How Dark-Fleet Ships Use A Digital Trick to Disappear—And How to Find Them An oil tanker seized by the U.S. this week reportedly used a technique that scrambled its location, but new advanced visual tracking can help expose such ships’ true coordinates By Eve…
Colossal’s so-called dire wolf Colossal Biosciences Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first and only de-extinction company”, generated a lot of headlines this year. The hype, however, bore little relation to reality. First, the US-based firm made a splash with woolly mice “engineered to express multiple key mammoth-like traits”. Victoria Herridge at the University…
December 12, 2025 Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Cell Transplant Therapy Offers New Hope for Type 1 Diabetes Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited insulin-producing cells into a man with type 1 diabetes—allowing him to make some of his own insulin without immunosuppressants. By Carin Leong edited by Kelso Harper This video is part of “Innovations…
A glacier meets the sea in Dickson Fjord, Greenland Jane Rix/Alamy The Arctic will retain about 1.5°C of warming even if the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere returns to pre-industrial levels and the planet as a whole cools. The region is also predicted to retain about 0.1 millimetres per day of excess precipitation, regardless of…
When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu contained many of life’s building blocks, including all five nucleobases used in DNA and RNA, 14 of the 20 amino acids found in proteins, and a…
In 1875, Judy B., a Black woman, was admitted to St. Elizabeths, the Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington D.C. Except for her initial diagnosis of chronic dementia, her medical file remained sparse until the early 1900s, when she was in her 80s. After that time, doctors noted that she sometimes spoke out loud…
December 12, 2025 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Health Experts Slam Possible FDA ‘Black Box’ Warning for COVID Vaccines The FDA is reportedly considering the addition of high-level warning labels to COVID vaccines, a move that some experts say may cause unfounded concerns over safety By Lauren J. Young edited by Claire…
The Gale crater on Mars ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth as a tide came and went. If that is true, it follows that Mars must have had a moon that was massive enough to exert a gravitational pull on the planet’s seas sufficient enough…
