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Scientists have unveiled new insights into the mysterious properties of high-temperature superconductors, materials that could revolutionize energy transmission and transform technologies from medical imaging to transportation. A team of researchers at Waseda University has discovered key details about how light…

Early Christmas It’s the holidays, or rather it’s not, because, owing to the way print schedules work, Feedback is writing this festive edition in the first week of December. We have ordered presents for Mrs Feedback, we still haven’t figured…

December 12, 2024 3 min read The 7 Coolest Mathematical Discoveries of 2024 Unsolvable problems, many-dimensional wheels and new prime numbers are among new mathematical discoveries this year By Clara Moskowitz The quest for an einstein tile—a shape never seen…

A new study reveals that consuming the right amount of calories at breakfast – about a quarter of your daily intake – could be key to reducing cardiovascular disease risk. The research offers precise guidance on both portion size and…

Saharan dust storms like this one in Athens, Greece (above), are becoming more common Reuters/Louisa Gouliamaki It won’t be confirmed until January, but it is now almost certain that 2024 will surpass 2023 as the hottest year on record. Even…

Let me start with the following principle: “Energy is the only universal currency: One of its many forms must be transformed to get anything done.” Economies are just intricate systems set up to do those transformations, and all economically significant…

Leading ecologists have devised a new framework to classify how biodiversity credit operators define what a unit of nature is. The new analysis demonstrates the challenges involved with devising a biodiversity credit market to fund nature recovery, and the risks…

A gallium cast used to make a channel system in a soft gel, mimicking blood vessels Subramanian Sundaram/BU and Harvard University Lab-grown organs for transplant are one step closer thanks to a technique for making artificial blood vessels using 3D…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. If you’re one of the many folks who eagerly awaits the arrival of Spotify Wrapped each December, you might have noticed something a little extra in this year’s drop:…

Around 1 in 5 of the world’s under 50s—846 million people—are living with genital herpes infection, suggest the latest global estimates, published online in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. And more than 200 million 15-49 year olds probably had at least…