SCIENCE
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Why AI ‘Therapy’ Can Be So Dangerous
Artificial intelligence chatbots don’t judge. Tell them the most private, vulnerable details of your life, and most of them will…
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Did Disease Defeat Napoleon? | Scientific American
August 10, 2025 2 min read Did Disease Defeat Napoleon? Napoleon’s campaign against the Russian Empire was one of the…
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JWST Spots Possible Alien Planet at Alpha Centauri
Astronomers have found nearly 6,000 exoplanets orbiting other stars. But for every confirmed detection, there are countless mere hints, inconclusive…
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Teens Are Flocking to AI Chatbots. Is this Healthy?
Relationships are messy, whether you are an adult with lots of experience or a kid navigating tough times with a…
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U.S. Science Has Weathered Attacks Before and Won
U.S. Science and Scientific American Have Weathered Attacks Before and Won Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in…
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Hurricane Forecasters Keep Access to Threatened Defense Department Satellite Data
Hurricane Forecasters Keep Crucial Satellite Data Online after Threatened Cuts Microwave satellite data that are key to capturing changes in…
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Organ Proteins Reveal How Aging Accelerates at 50 Years Old
Organs Age in Waves Accelerating at 50 Years Old Aging is a complex process that plays out differently across different…
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Physicists Blast Gold to Astonishing Temperatures, Overturning 40 Years of Physics
Superheated Gold Defies ‘Entropy Catastrophe’ Limit, Overturning 40-Year-Old Physics Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a…
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Tests that AIs Often Fail and Humans Ace Could Pave the Way for Artificial General Intelligence
There are many ways to test the intelligence of an artificial intelligence—conversational fluidity, reading comprehension or mind-bendingly difficult physics. But…
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New Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS’s Biggest Mysteries Explained
Earlier this month astronomers were thrilled to discover only the third known interstellar object ever seen in our solar system.…
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