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Don't Believe the Hype: The Pumice Raft Won't Save the Great Barrier Reef
The floating shelf of volcanic stone more than twice the size of Manhattan will nonetheless bring a fascinating array of life to the reef-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
"Particle" Robots Work Together to Perform Tasks
Clusters of decentralized units could be used in search and rescue operations or drug delivery-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
To Justify Using Weed, Some Pregnant Women Cling to an Old and Dubious Study
Social media users extol—and health experts decry—a 25-year-old study from Jamaica suggesting cannabis use poses no harm to fetal development-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
NASA checks SpaceX’s potential Starship landing sites on Mars, with water in mind
An artists’s conception shows SpaceX’s Starship craft on Mars. (SpaceX Illustration)
NASA is helping SpaceX get a fix on potential landing sites on Mars for its Starship super-spaceship, with an emphasis on Arcadia Planitia and Amazonis Planitia, reg...
Cancer Medicine Is Failing Us
Our aggressive, expensive approach to cancer is doing more harm than good -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
London Crawling with Drug-Resistant Microbes
Nearly half of bacteria gathered in public settings around the city were resistant to two or more commonly used antibiotics, like penicillin and erythromycin. Christopher Intagliata reports.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Jeff Bezos touts a full-power firing of Blue Origin’s next-generation BE-4 rocket engine
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is showing off a picture of his Blue Origin space venture’s BE-4 rocket engine going full blast during a hot-fire test in Texas.
“BE-4 continues to rack up time on the test stand,” Bezos said in an accompanied by a pictu...
Faster MRI Method Could Shake Up Brain Imaging
A new technique relies on measuring changes in tissue stiffness resulting from neural activity-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Historic Greenland Melt Is a "Glimpse of the Future"
A major heat wave pushed melting into areas of the ice sheet that normally stay frozen year-round-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A Year In, the Second-Largest Ebola Outbreak Continues to Rage
Despite vaccination and treatment efforts, the epidemic in Central Africa has resulted in 1,700 deaths and counting-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com