Allison Parshall | Multimedia Science Journalist
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Asexuality Is Finally Breaking Free from Medical Stigma | Scientific American
New research on asexuality shows why it’s so important for doctors and therapists to distinguish between episodes of low libido and a consistent lack of sexual attraction (January 2024 feature)
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Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster | Quanta Magazine
New results break with decades of conventional wisdom for the gradient descent algorithm.
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‘Unbelievable’ Spinning Particles Probe Nature’s Most Mysterious Force | Scientific American
The strong force holds our atoms together. Scientists may have observed its small-scale fluctuations for the first time
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Underground Climate Change Is Weakening Buildings in Slow Motion | Scientific American
Hotspots beneath cities deform the ground, causing important infrastructure to crack under stress (Appeared in October 2023 issue)
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After a Quantum Clobbering, One Approach Survives Unscathed | Quanta Magazine
A quantum approach to data analysis that relies on the study of shapes will likely remain an example of a quantum advantage — albeit for increasingly unlikely scenarios.
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What Are Puberty Blockers, and How Do They Work? | Scientific American
Decades of data support the use and safety of puberty-pausing medications, which give transgender adolescents and their families time to weigh important medical decisions
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A Brain Scanner Combined with an AI Language Model Can Provide a Glimpse into Your Thoughts | Scientific American
New technology gleans the gist of stories a person hears while laying in a brain scanner
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New Entanglement Results Hint at Better Quantum Codes | Quanta Magazine
A team of physicists has entangled three photons over a considerable distance, which could lead to more powerful quantum cryptography.
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The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers | Quanta Magazine
Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure the digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future.
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Deadly Bacteria in Eyedrops May Spread from Person to Person | Scientific American
Infections of a new strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa that have led to blindness and death highlight the worsening antibiotic resistance crisis
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Discovery of Elusive ‘Einstein’ Tile Raises More Questions Than It Answers | Scientific American
A surprisingly simple answer to a mathematical puzzle intrigues the math world (Appeared in June 2023 issue)
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AI Can Re-create What You See from a Brain Scan | Scientific American
Image-generating AI is getting better at re-creating what people are looking at from their fMRI data. But this isn’t mind reading—yet
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Plant Cell Parts Turn into Glass to Soak Up Sun | Scientific American
Chloroplasts’ choreography keeps plant cells powered (Appeared in May 2023 issue)
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Northern Lights Dance across U.S. because of ‘Stealthy’ Sun Eruptions | Scientific American
A severe geomagnetic storm created auroras that were visible as far south as Arizona in the U.S.
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How My AI Image Won a Major Photography Competition (Q&A) | Scientific American
Boris Eldagsen submitted an AI-generated image to a photography contest as a “cheeky monkey” and sparked a debate about AI’s place in the art world
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Machine Learning Highlights a Hidden Order in Scents | Quanta Magazine
Efforts to build a better digital “nose” suggest that our perception of scents reflects both the structure of aromatic molecules and the metabolic processes that make them.
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Scientists Fire Lasers at the Sky to Control Lightning | Scientific American
Laser beams could be used to deflect lightning strikes from vulnerable places such as airports and wind farms. (Appeared in April 2023 print issue)
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A Common Antibiotic Could Prevent Deaths from Childbirth Complications | Scientific American
One in three cases of maternal sepsis can be prevented with a single dose of antibiotic, a study in low- and middle-income countries shows
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Rare, Dust-Shrouded Dying Star Revealed in New JWST Image | Scientific American
Before exploding as supernovae, massive Wolf-Rayet stars spew gas and dust into space, seeding the formation of future stellar and planetary systems
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Colliding Supermassive Black Holes Discovered in Nearby Galaxy | Scientific American
These merging supermassive black holes are among the closest ever observed and could help unlock deeper secrets of cosmic history
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The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes | Quanta Magazine
Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to show their work.
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New Color-Changing Coating Could Both Heat and Cool Buildings | Scientific American
A thin film can switch from releasing heat to trapping it, and wrapping the coating around buildings could make them more energy-efficient
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Living with Lead Creates Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs' | Scientific American
People are infected by bacteria that, after contacting heavy metals, develop drug-resistant traits
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Inside Ancient Asteroids, Gamma Rays Made Building Blocks of Life | Quanta Magazine
A new radiation-based mechanism adds to the ways that amino acids could have been made in space and brought to the young Earth.
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Wastewater can track viruses like Covid-19 — Can it do the same for superbugs? | Inverse
A pandemic program could help reveal the true threat of antibiotic resistance to public health.
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Why an assault on your VR body can feel so real | Scienceline
Our brains are easily fooled into taking ownership of a virtual body, decades of psychology research shows
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Mysterious "milky seas" captured on camera for the first time | Inverse
You’ve never seen anything like it.
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Scientists discovered the biggest bacteria ever, and it's the size of an eyelash | Inverse
This massive bacteria is breaking all the rules
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518 million-year-old fossil worm reveals direct connection to human evolution | Inverse
The ancestor we deserve.
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Essential molecules for life discovered near center of Milky Way — again | Inverse
Scientists have found more of the ingredients for life as we know it in a gaseous cloud toward the center of the Milky Way
In Translation
Spanish / Español:
El cambio climático subterráneo debilita los edificios | Arquitectura Viva
French / Français:
Les odeurs, aux sources de la vie | Cerveau & Psycho
L’IA peut-elle lire dans nos pensées ? | Cerveau & Psycho
Les astéroïdes, creuset des acides aminés | Pour la Science
German / Deutsch:
(K)ein Job für Quantencomputer | Spektrum.de
Wenn die KI ins Hirn blickt | Spektrum.de
Starke Wechselwirkung wirbelt die Theorie durcheinander | Spektrum.de
Italian / Italiano:
Il telescopio spaziale Webb ha fotografato una rara stella morente in una nube di gas e polvere | Le Scienze
Un fungo può causare una pandemia? | Le Scienze
L'intelligenza artificiale rivela l'ordine segreto del mondo degli odori | Le Scienze
Polish / Polski:
Życie bez seksu | Pulsar / Świat Nauki
Śmierć gwiazdy | Pulsar
Po prostu nieskończoność | Pulsar
Laserowy kontratak | Pulsar
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