January 23, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm This is the most complete skeleton yet of our ancestor Homo habilis A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus By K. R. Callaway edited…
The lunar X, seen from Tokyo in February 2025 The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images/Alamy The first time I took a photograph of the moon through my telescope was almost a decade ago. It was a very amateur set-up. I held up my phone camera to the eyepiece and after capturing a dozen fuzzy images,…
January 25, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Want to live longer? Tiny changes to your sleep, exercise and diet could add a year to your life New research suggests that getting even just a few more minutes of sleep and exercise and eating an extra cup of vegetables every day can…
Why does it feel so lonely online these days? Breana Panaguiton/Unsplash Right now, I’m glued to my phone. Like most people in the US, I get my news from various apps – social posts, podcasts, newsletters – and when things are blowing up (literally) I can’t look away. People in Minneapolis are posting video updates…
January 25, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Babies who attend daycare share ‘good’ germs, too Socializing at a young age helps to develop greater diversity in children’s microbiomes, according to an analysis of baby-to-baby transmission of gut bacteria By Chris Simms & Nature magazine StockPlanets/Getty Images A large proportion of a…
A Hole in the Sky is told through the eyes of 16-year-old Hazel Adam Serba/Alamy A Hole in the SkyPeter F. Hamilton, Angry Robot I am a dyed-in-the-wool Peter F. Hamilton fan, so I was really looking forward to his new book, A Hole in the Sky, especially as I always love an ark ship…
Schrödinger’s cat just got a little bit fatter. Physicists have created the largest ever ‘superposition’ — a quantum state in which an object exists in a haze of possible locations at once. A team based at the University of Vienna put individual clusters of around 7,000 atoms of sodium metal some 8 nanometres wide into…
Our environmental and social problems are pressing and, in many countries, money is short and politics deadlocked. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there turned out to be a new way of making real progress cheaply and without getting enmeshed in party politics? About two decades ago, along with many of our colleagues in the behavioural…
Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ice, dubbed Ih, with the h referring to its crystal lattice’s hexagonal nature. But there is so much more to ice than that. For more than…
Oona Chaplin as Varang in Avatar: Fire and Ash 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved. Bethan AckerleySubeditor, London Nobody makes blockbusters like James Cameron. Avatar: Fire and Ash, his third film set on the verdant moon Pandora, is bombastic and beautiful. And from interspecies war to family feuds, there’s also an awful lot going…
