The Worst Way to Reply to a Party Invite
There are two straightforward—and simple—ways to respond to social invitations: Tell the host you’ll be there, or that you won’t…
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NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies Faces Eviction under Trump Plan
In the early 1980s, then real estate developer Donald Trump famously tried to evict a group of New York City…
Students’ mental health imperiled by $1 billion cuts to school funding
Four-year-old Elijah’s task was to draw a penguin, his favorite animal, and then rip up the paper so the scraps…
SpaceX’s Ninth Starship Test Flight Delivers Mixed Results
SpaceX’s Ninth Starship Test Flight Delivers Mixed Results The largest, most powerful launch vehicle ever built is meant to be…
Genetics might save the rare, elusive saola — if it’s not already extinct
It’s not looking good for the saola. If it still exists, it is one of the world’s rarest large mammals…
We Go Further Together: Calling for Collaborations, An Actionable Context for AHIP 2025
There are many ways to measure the dysfunction of health care in the U.S.: we can point to relatively poor…
Earth could be flung out of orbit by a passing star
Bad news, earthlings. Computer simulations of the solar system’s future reveal a new risk facing us all: The gravitational tug…
Personalized gene editing saved a baby, but the tech’s future is uncertain
When a baby born in Philadelphia was announced as the first person to get a gene therapy designed just for…
How to Reconnect With Friends and Family
Sometimes the most important relationships are the hardest to maintain. If you fall off track—and many people who were once…
Diagnosing Male Infertility with Adhesion Test That Captures Sperm Motility
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The World Health Organization estimates that infertility impacts one in…