Lotions and perfumes affect the air near our skin
Personal care products influence the chemistry of the air swirling around us. Lotion and perfume disrupt chemical reactions that occur…
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Reviving Dead Lithium-Ion Batteries with an AI-Derived Electrolyte Solution
AI Found a ‘Magic Potion’ That Can Bring Dead Batteries Back to Life Electric vehicles leave behind mountains of dead…
What Causes Glaciers to Collapse like the Event That Buried a Swiss Village?
What Causes Glaciers to Collapse like the Event That Buried a Swiss Village? Climate change and thawing permafrost play a…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX City Starbase Faces Opposition from Its Texas Neighbors
SpaceX’s Starbase Is Officially a City. Some Neighbors Aren’t Thrilled Starbase, SpaceX’s launch site turned company town in South Texas,…
The Best and Worst Way to Remove a Tick
You probably won’t see a tick as it clings to a blade of grass, but it can see you. The…
How Doppler Radar Lets Meteorologists Predict Weather and Save Lives
Outside every National Weather Service (NWS) office around the U.S. stands what looks like an enormous white soccer ball, perched…
How luna moths grow extravagant wings
For the first time, biologists have linked the ribbony “tails” streaming from big, green luna moths’ hind wings with, of…
Venus’ tectonics may be actively reshaping its surface
Things may be moving on Venus’ surface. In 1983, researchers discovered that the planet’s surface was speckled with strange, circular…
What the First Results from the Global Flourishing Study Tell Us about Age, Employment and Partnership
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. How are you doing today, listeners? Would you say you’re…
Males weren’t always bigger than females in this hominid species
An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed molecular clues to…