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Astronomy has long been dominated by expert amateurs but with geospatial data everywhere, thanks to widely available internet and smartphones, it is not just that directions that were once only available in a paper map are now updated on your phone in real time to account for traffic. It is changing the relationships of science also. […]

People who can’t stop scratching itches may finally have a culprit to blame. In mice (and probably people), a protein called TRPV4 is involved both in starting an itch and stopping it after scratching, says neuroscientist Roberta Gualdani. She will present the finding February 24 at the annual meeting of the Biophysical Society in San

February 21, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA reveals new problem with Artemis II rocket, further delaying launch Just a day after NASA set a March 6 target date for its upcoming moon mission, the agency’s head announced it will roll back the rocket from the pad entirely By Claire Cameron

Some pet foods contain potentially harmful PFAS chemicals Cris Cantón/Getty Images Many pet foods – especially those based on fish – have levels of so-called forever chemicals that exceed European health agency thresholds for humans. The findings point to an urgent need for increased monitoring of contaminants in pet products and a better understanding of

“If I give you a diagnostic tool that lets you end up with a kid that has a three times higher chance of getting admitted to MIT, I think people are going to be interested.” Although it sounds like a line from a sci-fi movie, this is actually a quote from Steve Hsu, a physics

Caucasus Mountains, Georgia. Credit: Thomas Hammond/Wikimedia Commons The world’s largest climate fund recently approved $250 million in funding for Glaciers to Farms, a program aimed at supporting nine glacier-dependent developing countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. This noteworthy contribution by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) will be complemented

Published on Fri May 10 2024 Morning. Coffee. | Tom Hart on Flickr Across England, a quiet revolution is taking shape, targeting one of the most critical areas of healthcare – mental health crisis management. Crisis cafés, sometimes known as crisis sanctuaries or havens, have begun to dot the landscape, providing a comforting arm to

  A New Species of the Medically Important Scorpion Genus Hemiscorpius Peters, 1861 (Hemiscorpiidae Pocock, 1893) from Kurdistan, Iraq Abstract The scorpion genus Hemiscorpius Peters, 1861 is renowned for its medically important species, particularly Hemiscorpius lepturus Peters, 1861, the type species of the genus and only species previously recorded in Iraq. However, the scorpion diversity of the rugged, arid

Microplastics, defined as plastic particles smaller than 5 mm in diameter, have emerged as pervasive environmental contaminants of global concern. Generated through both intentional production and the fragmentation of larger plastic debris, microplastics are now detected across marine, freshwater, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments. Their persistence, physicochemical heterogeneity, and capacity to interact with biological systems raise

The story of the beginning of our Universe is probably one of the hardest biographies one could work on. It requires the work of several generations of philosophers, cosmologists, mathematicians, physicists, and astronomers to find out what actually happened at the beginning of the Universe. It was only now that astronomers realized that we don’t