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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.We’re 18 days into the second Trump administration, and when it...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.These embryos, somewhere between...

We  are delighted to announce the results of our latest photo competition. Steve Wagner wins First Prize with his outstanding...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As California's Central Valley makes headlines for the growing number of people testing positive for the...

The scars left behind — charred hillsides, entire neighborhoods like checkerboards of ash and rubble — reveal only a fraction...