Scientific American

Want to go to the moon? Travel vicariously through the more than 12,000 photos NASA just posted from the Artemis II mission spklr.io/6017EKCxt

Greenland sharks have hearts that can function normally for more than a century spklr.io/6017EKCcF

The Supreme Court on Monday paused a ruling by a federal appeals court that prevented health care providers from prescribing mifepristone by telemedicine, setting the stage for further action from the nation's highest court spklr.io/6010EKCR8

Banning cell phones in schools has been touted as a silver bullet for poor test scores and low student well-being and attendance, but new research suggests the results are more mixed spklr.io/6014EKCGr

Tiny plastic particles drifting in Earth’s atmosphere could have a significant warming effect, a new study finds spklr.io/6018EK7Cr

Hantavirus is a rare infectious disease that spreads through contact with rodents and which can lead to kidney failure and fluid filling the lungs spklr.io/6011EK723

Massive investments in AI may bring synergy and revenue to SpaceX, or could create problems for it and NASA, especially if the AI bubble pops spklr.io/6017EK7xT

Marijuana is far from a “silver bullet” for various illnesses, but it has some promising applications, scientists say spklr.io/6019EK7n1

Three 2026 Breakthrough Prize winners reflect on developing Luxturna, a gene therapy that treats blindness caused by rare inherited eye diseases spklr.io/6014EK7yy

A new analysis shows that the Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies—and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain. spklr.io/6016EK46y

This annual meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through the dusty debris left behind by Halley’s Comet as it journeys around the sun spklr.io/6019EKNad

The FDA rejected the promising skin cancer drug RP1 twice, leaving many puzzled and worried about what this means for other drug approvals spklr.io/6019EKFTt

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved. spklr.io/6018EK0v8

While there is no immediate danger, this crash highlights that space junk is increasingly expanding out of lower-Earth orbit spklr.io/6015EKIt5

Nearly a third of all U.S. adults are sleeping fewer than the recommended seven hours per night on average spklr.io/6018EKxsK

A draft bill would preserve NASA’s overall funding but downsize the National Science Foundation’s budget by 20 percent. spklr.io/6011EKxlv

The migration of birds from their southern wintering grounds to their breeding grounds in the north is in full swing spklr.io/6014EKxbo

The Kardashev scale is an interesting but flawed gauge of a civilization’s growth spklr.io/6010EKasQ

Rate limits on Claude and other tools could hint at a deeper squeeze on the chips, power and data centers needed to run advanced AI. Researcher Lennart Heim explains spklr.io/6011EKaSd

Archaeologists have uncovered almost 3,000 silver coins so far—and more could come to light spklr.io/6015EKaoW