The hairs on tomato plants are actually tiny pest trapsJalaal Research Group/University of Amsterdam For hungry insects, walking along a tomato stalk in search of a green meal can be like navigating a minefield. Jared Popowski at the University of...
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) captured on 31 December 2024 using a telescope in Río Hurtado, ChileLionel Majzik A comet that has taken astronomers by surprise could shine as brightly as Venus in the night sky as it passes by Earth...
Aaron Skarlupka, a hunter in northeast Wisconsin, was recently thrilled when he got his first harvest of the season: an eight-point white-tailed buck. Skarlupka’s son, who was along for the chilly morning hunt in the woods, convinced his dad to...
January 10, 20254 min readCan You Get Bird Flu from Eggs? Your Egg Safety Questions AnsweredEggs can carry nasty viruses and bacteria. Here’s how to store and eat them safelyBy Tanya Lewis edited by Jeanna Bryner Véronique Duplain/Alamy Stock PhotoEggs...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Unless you’re really on the low end of our listener age bell curve, chances are you grew up learning about our solar system’s nine planets. Of course, unless you’ve been...
At the end of a year and the beginning of the next, it’s traditional to look back and muse over what happened and to look forward and hope for what might come.But for me, as an astronomer, it means another...
January 10, 20255 min readWhy We’re So Preoccupied by the PastPeople talk more about past events than future ones—and memories hold clues for navigating the presentBy Jeremy R. Manning edited by Daisy Yuhas Jorm Sangsorn/Getty ImagesThe arrival of a new...
3D-printed lenses make this microscope far less costly than traditional onesDr Liam M. Rooney/University of Strathclyde The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope can be made in a few hours and for a fraction of the cost of traditional ones. “It’s...
Most chocolate comes from cocoa plants taken from Central America to Ghana and Ivory CoastIssouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images Wild ChocolateRowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury Publishing) I thought I knew the basics about the chocolate industry. Most comes from hundreds of thousands of...
The town of Colonnata (Italy),Alessandro Gandolfi/Panos Pictures At the foot of striking marble quarries in central Italy’s Apuan Alps sits the village of Colonnata (pictured above) – a quaint place famed for its pork lard and quarry workers. The stone...
