Category Science

February 14, 2025 2 min read Men Actually Crave Romantic Relationships More Than Women Do Multiple-study analysis looks at why men’s emotional intimacy is much more difficult outside of romantic relationships By Clarissa Brincat edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Research…

[CLIP: Theme music] Rachel Feltman: Happy Valentine’s Day, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For many people today is all about scrambling to get last-minute dinner reservations and spending lots of money—I mean, uh, showing your significant…

Weymouth Bay on England’s south coast, where SeaCURE is sucking carbon dioxide out of seawater Heidi Stewart/Alamy At the back of the Sea Life aquarium in Weymouth on England’s south coast, a hangar resounds with the rush of water into…

I remember once going to a restaurant and, being pretty hungry, ordering the biggest burger on their menu. I grossly overestimated my appetite; what arrived at my table was a ridiculously huge slab of meat, almost impossible for me to…

Illustration of the Jurassic bird Baminornis zhenghensis, showing the fossilised bones ZHAO Chuang A fossil from China that’s 150 million years old may be the world’s earliest known bird. The discovery shows that the short tails characteristic of modern birds…

Cancer arises as an enemy from within. One of the body’s own cells becomes damaged or corrupted and then multiplies to create copies of its aberrant self. The ballooning army of deviant cells may invade nearby tissues, damaging them and…

Antarctic ice on 1 Jan 2024 NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Earth’s climate isn’t easy to cool down – especially if you want it cold enough for ice caps to form. According to a model of the geological forces shaping the…

CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration fired federal employees on probationary status Thursday, affecting tens of thousands of staffers nationwide. The Department of Energy, Forest Service and Office of Personnel Management are among the agencies that axed staffers, several current and…

Part of the KM3NeT neutrino detector on the seafloor KM3NeT A shockingly powerful neutrino that ripped through a new particle detector in the Mediterranean Sea has taken physicists by surprise, and it could be a first tantalising glimpse into some…

February 14, 2025 3 min read The Psychology of ‘Shared Silence’ in Couples The right kind of silence can be golden, revitalizing and strengthening a relationship By Francine Russo & Knowable Magazine Partners enjoy a companionable moment of separate activities.…