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In 2014, a blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive event: a gamma-ray burst. By listening to, rather than looking at, the data, she made a critical discovery and changed the field of astronomy.بقلم Timmy Broderick,Jason Drakeford,Carin Leong

Space is famously silent, but astronomers and musicians are increasingly turning astronomical data into sound as a way to make discoveries and inspire people who are blind or visually impaired.بقلم Timmy Broderick,Jason Drakeford,Carin Leong

One researcher has been hiring planes to strafe the sky over the Amazon rain forest to collect the air coming off the trees, and what she is finding is cause for alarm.بقلم Daniel Grossman

Consumers can now get easy tests for Alzheimer’s. But these tests may not really help patients that much–yet.بقلم Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Carin Leong,Alexa Lim

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón discusses her involvement in NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and the inspiration behind her poem, which will travel onboard the spacecraft.بقلم Brianne Kane,Kelso Harper,Carin Leong

Caterpillars can’t regulate their body temperatures, so they have to come up with a totally different strategy to make it through the coldest months of the year.بقلم Kate Furby,Jeffery DelViscio

A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather.بقلم Shayla Love,Jeffery DelViscio

The new field of digital bioacoustics is using machine learning to try decipher animal speak, including honeybee toots and quacks and whoops.بقلم Sophie Bushwick,Kelso Harper,Jeffery DelViscio

Are you working really hard to learn something? Remember this counterintuitive fact, and you might improve your learning curve.بقلم Karen Hopkin,Jeffery DelViscio

The bite of the lone star tick makes people allergic to a sugar found in mammalian products, and many doctors don’t know about it.بقلم Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Carin Leong,Alexa Lim

A “Darwinian paradox” is that homosexual activity occurs even though it does not lead to or aid in reproduction. But if you visit three capuchin monkeys in Los Angeles, they’ll show you how beneficial their liaisons are.بقلم Natalia Reagan

The Luddites did not hate technology—but they did fight the way it was used to exploit humans.بقلم Sophie Bushwick,Elah Feder

Xenotransplants could help to solve the organ transplant crisis—if researchers can get the science right.بقلم Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio,Alexa Lim

Light is a very dangerous, if not so obvious, threat to birds who migrate at night. But researchers are using weather radar to track birds and provide “lights out” forecasts to help keep their paths clear of visual distraction.بقلم Jacob Job

Science is turning to machines to unlock the secrets of the vast, mysterious pulse-of-the-planet phenomenon that is nocturnal migration.بقلم Jacob Job

If you really want to challenging your bird identification skills, try using them at night, when bird calls are less than 100 milliseconds long.بقلم Jacob Job

For thousands of years, no one truly knew how birds migrated—that is, until a few unlikely pioneers sat in an empty field with hundreds of pounds of kludged together recording gear and waited to hear sounds that no one had ever captured.بقلم Jacob Job

On any given night, dense clouds of dark, ghostly figures pass over your head as you sleep. Maybe you never knew they were there, but there are people out there who are deciphering all the unseen movement that happens amid the darkness.بقلم Jacob Job

Hearing aids may help maintain better brain functions in older people and better health overall.بقلم Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Carin Leong,Elah Feder

Apothecaries founded this famous garden—one of the most ancient botanical gardens in Europe—to teach their students which plants poison and which plants cure.بقلم Shayla Love,Jeffery DelViscio,Tulika Bose

Here’s how scientists are planning on getting underground fungi data from space using satellites.بقلم Meg Duff,Jeffery DelViscio,Tulika Bose

Atmospheric carbon is a currency that plants use to “buy” nutrients from fungi in the soil. To find out where this economy will go next, the devil is in the details. And the details are in the dirt.بقلم Meg Duff,Tulika Bose,Jeffery DelViscio

Like us, plants and fungi have complex economies. By burning fossil fuels, we’ve been devaluing their currency.بقلم Meg Duff,Jeffery DelViscio,Tulika Bose

Drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic might help people tackle substance abuse as well as shed pounds.بقلم Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Lauren J. Young,Alexa Lim,Tulika Bose

Scientists used a smoking machine—complete with a 3-D-printed mouthpiece—to figure out how to get the most cannabinoid per puff.بقلم Sophie Bushwick,Tulika Bose,Elah Feder

New AI technology predicts hit songs—by listening to someone’s body.بقلم Sophie Bushwick,Lucy Tu

Here’s what’s behind the A.I technology that has worried so many actors—including something called “the orb.”بقلم Tulika Bose,Sophie Bushwick

A sleep researcher who studies what dreams can tell us about the possible onset of some mental disorders believes lucid dreamers might hold a lot of answers in their head.بقلم Gary Stix,Jeffery DelViscio

Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb.بقلم Lee Billings,Jeffery DelViscio,Carin Leong

Inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups can be traced to mental stressبقلم Carin Leong,Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman

Here’s how large language models, or LLMs, actually work.بقلم Sophie Bushwick,George Musser,Elah Feder

Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species.بقلم Joseph Polidoro

New research has discovered that wildfire smoke hurts these primates’ voice—and health.بقلم Starre Vartan

ChatGPT and other AI programs can offer medical advice. But how good are they?بقلم Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Carin Leong

The famous climate pattern El Niño could usher in a new hottest year on record and will have domino effects on the world’s weather.بقلم Andrea Thompson,Jeffery DelViscio,Elah Feder

John O’Keefe shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that neurons in the hippocampus encode an animal’s location and create a cognitive map for navigation. This podcast was produced for the Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors.…

Researchers, using the galaxy as a detector, believe they have detected gravitational waves from monster black holes for the first time.بقلم Lee Billings,Jeffery DelViscio,Alexa Lim,Tulika Bose

Toxic dust plagues marginalized communities on the shores of this disappearing salt lake.بقلم Kate Furby,Tulika Bose

Desert ants living in the featureless salt plains of Tunisia count their steps and erect tall entrances at their nests to find their way back home.بقلم Christopher Intagliata

Your body has a secret cooling method, and scientists explain how to use it.بقلم Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman

Along with an expert, we take you into some of nature's most monstrous storms.بقلم Andrea Thompson

The James Webb Space Telescope is giving us our first glimpse of stars in the early universe.بقلم Carin Leong,Lee Billings

In 2013 a new user named Cleo took an online math forum by storm with unproved answers. Today she’s an urban legend. But who was she?بقلم Allison Parshall,Tulika Bose,Carin Leong

The party drug MDMA could soon be approved for treating people with severe PTSD.بقلم Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Alexa Lim,Jeffery DelViscio

Where is it coming from? How long will it last? What's in the smoke? Whose health is at risk? How do you clean your own air?بقلم Andrea Thompson,Meghan Bartels,Lauren J. Young,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio,Carin Leong

Terror birds were the grizzly bears of birds, the great white sharks of the land, Jack the Ripper but with feathers. They were also truly fascinating.بقلم Flora Lichtman

Officially, these prehistoric birds are the dromornithids, but everyone who studies them calls them thunderbirds—and for good reason.بقلم Flora Lichtman

The elephant bird was the heaviest bird to ever walk the earth. Also, its eggs were 150 times the size of a chicken egg and thick as a dinner plate.بقلم Flora Lichtman

The fossil was a prehistoric bird called Pelagornis sandersi, and its wings stretched out twice as wide as those of the great albatross.بقلم Flora Lichtman

James Rothman shared The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2010 for discovering the molecular basis of neurotransmitter release. How did a biochemist come to win such a prestigious prize in neuroscience?بقلم Scientific American Custom Media