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Hint of Crack in Standard Model Vanishes in LHC Data

A once-promising hint of new physics from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, has melted away,…

2 years ago

Meet the Medical Student Challenging Racial Bias with TikTok

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Joel Bervell: You have the freedom to choose another doctor if you feel like you're not being heard.…

2 years ago

How to Help People with Memory Loss Enjoy the Holidays

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Many people love…

2 years ago

The 60-Second Podcast Takes a Short Break–but Wait, There’s More

Jeffery DelViscio: Hello 60-Second Science fans, this is Jeff DelViscio, the executive producer of the podcast. First, I really just want…

2 years ago

5 Billion People Will Face Water Shortages by 2050, U.N. Says

Five billion people, or around two-thirds of the world’s population, will face at least one month of water shortages by…

3 years ago

Young Climate Voters Could Tilt Georgia’s Runoff Election for Senate

If Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock wants to win next month’s Senate runoff election, he should lean into climate policy,…

3 years ago

5,000 Exoplanets! NASA Confirms a Cosmic Milestone

Our tally of strange new worlds just reached 5,000. Astronomers have added the 5,000th alien world to the NASA Exoplanet Archive,…

3 years ago

Snakes’ and Lizards’ Slow and Steady Evolution Won the Race

Earth is crawling with lizards and snakes. More than 10,000 species of these reptiles, called squamates, have adapted to thrive…

3 years ago

Florida Gets Kids and Vaccines Wrong, and Ukraine’s Health Crisis: COVID Quickly, Episode 26

Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to COVID, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update…

3 years ago

Where Rising Seas Threaten Drinking Water, Scientists Look for Affordable Solutions

Rising oceans bring more than high tides and nuisance flooding to coastal zones. They also carry salt water into inland…

3 years ago