Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash
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There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus, but this scientist is working on one
May 8, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus,…
Former Soviet scientific megastructures captured in striking photos
The 45-metre-high tower housing the AZT-20 telescope at the Assy-Turgen Observatory in Kazakhstan Soviet Scientific Institutes, by Eric…
New Scientist recommends Attenborough documentary Making Life on Earth
David Attenborough during filming for the 1979 Life on Earth series, the making of which is explored in…
Neanderthal ‘kneeprint’ found next to mysterious stalagmite circle
Bruniquel cave in France contains circular structures made of broken stalagmites Etienne FABRE/SSAC Around 175,000 years ago, Neanderthals…
The mathematician who doesn’t exist
A secret society of mathematicians has been working under a pseudonym for nearly a century Shutterstock/Stephen Ray Chapman…
Neandertals used rhinoceros teeth as tools
Neandertals may have had an unexpected tool in their kits: rhinoceros teeth. Marks in fossil rhino teeth found…
Space images can make other worlds feel like home
Humankind’s recent journey around the moon produced a spectacular photo album of our corner of the universe. Here…
25 people learned to fly with virtual wings. Here’s how the brain changed
In X-Men, Warren Worthington III sprouts huge white wings from his back and shoots into the sky. Scientists…
A grapefruit-sized quantum device mapped Earth’s magnetic field from space
Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She is a…