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But it’s not time to put away your telescopes, with some lesser-known astronomical events set to arrive across the sky this month. The Pleiades will appear next to the moon, Venus will reach its ...

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Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Simone Giertz started her career on YouTube building what she called “shitty robots”—deliberately flawed contraptions that made ...

Daring tree climbers and researchers have challenged a major assumption in tree drought biology. In rainforests on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, water transport systems of a colossal, ...

The premise to one of the best films of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival sounds more like an imaginative feature than a real-life documentary: When a group of anonymous online thieves steal highly ...

Cheap Trick has decided to stay on the road after their shared dates with Styx later this month. First, they'll take a few days off and then go on a run of June headliner shows in the U.S., with stops ...

One of the most ingenious developments of naval science and warfare is undoubtedly the submarine. With its fully-sealed design, a nuclear submarine can stay submerged for months, quietly creeping up ...

Join us as we dive into a world of fascinating science experiments that have taken the internet by storm! We're testing popular viral science tricks to find out which ones actually work and which ones ...