The NEO robot from tech company 1X is marketed as a home assistant 1X Science fiction is strewn with humanoid robots, from bad-tempered Bender in Futurama to cunning Ava in Ex Machina. And it has long seemed like that’s the natural home for such robots – on the screen and in books. The idea of…
March 17, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm An asteroid just exploded above Ohio with the force of 250 tons of TNT Eyewitness accounts and videos taken from across the Midwest reveal the streak of a large fireball across the daytime sky By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron This image,…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg exiting Los Angeles Superior Court in California Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images I just sat down to write, but before committing words to my document, I took out my phone to check my calendar. Then I got a chat notification from a friend, who sent me a link to some meme…
Skyscrapers don’t just reshape a city’s skyline; they may also shape the sky itself. Nighttime satellite observations show that 44 major U.S. cities have more cloud cover over their urban areas than over nearby rural land, researchers report February 5 in Nature Communications. Computer simulations indicate that building height and density matter. “To make precipitation,…
March 17, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Americans’ trust in federal vaccine recommendations declines markedly under Trump One in three Americans trust childhood vaccine guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics more than the CDC’s recommendations, a new poll finds By Claire Cameron edited by Tanya Lewis Photo by Win McNamee/Getty…
Duvet hogging can take its toll on a relationship – and your night’s sleep, but you may not be aware of it come morning Shutterstock/Vasylchenko Nikita Sleeping with a partner leads to more overnight wake-ups than sleeping alone. Often, these disturbances are brief and forgotten by morning, but there are strategies to address them if…
Each year, thousands of people in the U.S. die waiting for donated organs. A new book shares how organs from other species could change that.
The day after indulging in maybe one too many a libation with friends or family, my body seems to instinctually crave a big bowl of pho. The Vietnamese staple’s light but perfectly salty broth, tender slices of flank beef, and crisp bean sprouts and cilantro, along with a generous squeeze of lime and sriracha, does…
The LHCb experiment cavern at CERN CERN/Brice, Maximilien A new particle has popped into existence at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, a heavier proton-like particle that contains two charm quarks. Protons and neutrons are examples of a class of particles called baryons, which each contain three fundamental subatomic particles called quarks that come in a variety…
March 17, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm The real reason there are no snakes in Ireland It wasn’t Saint Patrick but a long history of chilly weather and geographic isolation that kept the Emerald Isle snake-free By K. R. Callaway edited by Andrea Thompson Lanmas/Alamy; Illustration composite by Scientific American When…
