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Alexander Pohl/Sipa USA/Alamy If ever there were a wake-up call, this is it. The fire alarm is ringing – hell, the fire alarm is on fire. The latest data confirms that 2024 was the first year in which the average…

January 15, 2025 3 min read Migrating Birds Sing to Team Up with Other Species Songbirds may socialize across species during nighttime migrations By Gayoung Lee edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier A singing American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla). Brian Reinke/Getty Images…

The planners and residents working to rebuild Los Angeles won’t be starting from a blank slate, however. Existing roads, infrastructure, and plots of lands will all shape how the city is rebuilt. Some residents may want to immediately rebuild on…

A late Iron Age Durotrigan burial at Winterborne Kingston in Dorset, UK Bournemouth University Genetic analysis of people buried in a 2000-year-old cemetery in southern England has bolstered the idea that Celtic communities in Britain placed women centre-stage, showing that…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. On January 6, the Louisiana Department of Health reported the first human death from H5N1 in the United States. While the general risk to human health is still considered low,…

Artist’s impression of ASKAP J1839-0756, a neutron star emitting beams of radio waves from its magnetic poles James Josephides A collapsed star around 13,000 light years away is so unusual that the researchers who have discovered it say it shouldn’t…

January 15, 2025 5 min read Two Simple Reforms Can Make H-1B Visas Great Again Although warring MAGA factions seem locked in a foreign worker battle with no middle ground, two straightforward changes would provide global talent while minimizing domestic…

Golden oyster mushrooms growing on a fallen log in Iowa Katie Flenker / Alamy Regularly eating golden oyster mushrooms protected heart health and promoted longevity in mice. Golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) – fungi native to parts of Russia, China…

In the classic country ballad “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” a cowboy receives a frightening vision: the devil’s herd of cows thundering through the clouds, chased by the souls of cowpokes who must “ride forever on that range up in…

The head of Bathynomus vaderi, a newly named marine isopod Nguyen Thanh Son A large crustacean that lives in the sea off Vietnam has been designated as a new species and named after Darth Vader. Bathynomus vaderi is a kind…