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Insects, those tiny creatures that seem to be everywhere you look, are actually a lot more interesting than you might think. Scientists have managed to describe over 1 million insect species so far, but...

Rachel Feltman: Hey there, folks! It's your girl Rachel Feltman reporting for Scientific American's Science Quickly. So, I'm sure we can all agree that there are some animals that pretty much everyone loves, right?...

So, like, NASA's Perseverance rover has been cruising around Mars and it captured some sick tracks on its navigation camera, coming from a place called "Witch Hazel Hill." It went down on May 13,...

An insane truth that has only been uncovered in the last few decades is that every huge galaxy out there in the universe has a supermassive black hole lurking at its core. People started...

Over the next decade, approximately 464 million teenagers worldwide are expected to grapple with obesity, a concerning trend highlighted by the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing. According to experts, the landscape of...

Astronomers recently made a groundbreaking discovery with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), spotting water ice swirling around a distant star. This finding opens up new possibilities for scientists to investigate how the essential...

People are not really great at assessing probabilities. That’s why we have irrational fears and why we tend to overestimate our odds of winning the lottery. When I have to travel by plane, for...

The M&S website went down in the early hours of this morning - hours after the retailer revealed it's facing a £300m hit to profits following last month's ransomware attack. A holding page told...

Alright, so this week in the wild world of science, we got some pretty interesting updates. First off, we heard that former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with a nasty form of prostate...

Alright, so there's a lot of talk about how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is all geared up for the upcoming hurricane season, which experts predict to be above average. But hold...