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Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 15h

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: This year’s physics Nobel goes to 3 researchers who demonstrated quantum tunneling on a superconducting chip. By bringing this microscopic effect into the macroscale world, they laid important foundations for quantum computing.

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This Year’s Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to Three Scientists for Work in Quantum Mechanics

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre microscopic quantum effects can infiltrate our large-scale, everyday world

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 14h

Babies process foreign languages they heard in utero much like their mother tongue, researchers find

Babies Start Processing Foreign Languages before They Are Born

Babies process foreign languages they heard in utero much like their mother tongue, researchers find

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Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 15h

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: This year’s physics Nobel goes to 3 researchers who demonstrated quantum tunneling on a superconducting chip. By bringing this microscopic effect into the macroscale world, they laid important foundations for quantum computing.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

This Year’s Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to Three Scientists for Work in Quantum Mechanics

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre microscopic quantum effects can infiltrate our large-scale, everyday world

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 16h

Recipient diagnosed with brain death received a type-O organ, which is compatible with all blood types

First-of-Its-Kind Transplant Could Break Down Blood Type Barriers

Recipient diagnosed with brain death received a type-O organ, which is compatible with all blood types

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 17h

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre microscopic quantum effects can infiltrate our large-scale, everyday world

This Year’s Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to Three Scientists for Work in Quantum Mechanics

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre microscopic quantum effects can infiltrate our large-scale, everyday world

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 17h

Human water management contributes to sinking land across the globe, and it may also be responsible for an unexpected rise

South Africa’s Coast Is Rising—And Scientists Have a New Explanation Why

Human water management contributes to sinking land across the globe, and it may also be responsible for an unexpected rise

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Flach captures his fascination with the science of cats in stunning photographs from his new book Feline

See Stunning Feline Photography Revealing the Science of Cats

Tim Flach captures his fascination with the science of cats in stunning photographs from his new book Feline

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Mathematicians have found a new way to predict how prime numbers behave

Fractal Chaos Discovered in Prime Numbers

Mathematicians have found a new way to predict how prime numbers behave

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune diseases

This Year’s Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Why the Body Doesn’t Attack Itself

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune disease...

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Saturn’s moon Enceladus shows signs of life-supporting chemistry, fungi may have shaped Earth before plants, and repeat COVID infections raise long-term health risks for kids.

Scientists Develop Flu Test That Produces Herbal Flavor When Virus Is Present

Saturn’s moon Enceladus shows signs of life-supporting chemistry, fungi may have shaped Earth before plants, and repeat COVID infections raise long-term health risks for kids.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery

Are Black Holes Creating Dark Energy?

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery

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Tanya Lewis @tanyalewis.bsky.social · 1d

This year's #medicineNobel was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi for discovering why the body doesn't attack itself—key for organ transplants and autoimmune disease therapies. By @laurenjyoung.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

This Year’s Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Why the Body Doesn’t Attack Itself

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune disease...

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Lauren J. Young @laurenjyoung.bsky.social · 1d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to some neat fundamental research on the immune system: peripheral immune tolerance. It's what keeps the body's defense mechanism in check—and could be key to new therapies for autoimmune disorders. @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

This Year’s Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Why the Body Doesn’t Attack Itself

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune disease...

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 4d

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Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

Humans Just Pushed Earth across Another 'Planetary Boundary'

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 4d

Learn the fundamentals of the burgeoning field of knot theory while solving some puzzles along the way

Can You Solve Math’s Knottiest Puzzles?

Learn the fundamentals of the burgeoning field of knot theory while solving some puzzles along the way

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 4d

When space itself expands, weird things can happen—like galaxies breaking the universe’s ultimate speed limit

Warp Speed! How Some Galaxies Can Move Away from Us Faster Than Light

When space itself expands, weird things can happen—like galaxies breaking the universe’s ultimate speed limit

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 4d

Step into a room so quiet you can hear your own heartbeat—and your nervous system.

A Silent Chamber at Nokia Bell Labs Reveals How Sound Shapes Memory, Emotion and Human Experience

Step into a room so quiet you can hear your own heartbeat—and your nervous system.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 5d

Every year, the Ig Nobel Prizes honor the weirdest and most wonderful science out there—like studying how drunk bats fly or the physics of perfect pasta. It’s all real research, and it’s all hilariously brilliant. Because sometimes science makes you laugh… then think.

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Tanya Lewis @tanyalewis.bsky.social · 5d

Jane Goodall was one of my first scientific idols. She reminded us that the natural world is not simply an object of study but a living, breathing subject: "In a flash of 'outsight' I had known timelessness and quiet ecstasy, sensed a truth of which mainstream science is merely a small fraction."

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Tanya Lewis @tanyalewis.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote about what we know about the safety of Tylenol (acetaminophen) in kids (spoiler alert: it's fine): www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-t... Thanks to @megha.bsky.social for editing

Tylenol Is One of the Most Commonly Used Kids' Meds. Is It Safe?

President Trump says Tylenol is not safe for young children. Here’s what the science says about acetaminophen

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 5d

Is it really possible that half of all people who have ever been age 65 or older are still alive today? We explore the amazing mathematics of demography to find out

How Many Humans Have Ever Lived? The Math May Surprise You

Is it really possible that half of all people who have ever been age 65 or older are still alive today? We explore the amazing mathematics of demography to find out

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Lauren J. Young @laurenjyoung.bsky.social · 6d

“I think chimpanzees have helped people understand that we are part of and not separated from the animal kingdom, and that has opened the way to having respect for the other amazing beings with whom we share the planet.” —Jane Goodall, @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/jane...

Jane Goodall, Trailblazing Primatologist and Chimpanzee Conservationist, Has Died

The anthropologist was famous for her pioneering research with chimpanzees and her influence on conservation

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Lauren J. Young @laurenjyoung.bsky.social · 6d

"You see CDC being torn apart, 2,000 people who are no longer there, years of experience, centers that are being demolished." @drdemetre.bsky.social discusses the dire state of US public health w/ @feltman.bsky.social on @sciam.bsky.social Science Quickly: www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

Demetre Daskalakis Saw the CDC Change from the Inside—And He’s Sounding the Alarm

The former director of a CDC center reveals how political ideology is undermining science, threatening vaccine policy and endangering public health across the U.S.

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall, Trailblazing Primatologist and Chimpanzee Conservationist, Has Died

The anthropologist was famous for her pioneering research with chimpanzees and her influence on conservation

www.scientificamerican.com/article/jane...

Jane Goodall, Trailblazing Primatologist and Chimpanzee Conservationist, Has Died

The anthropologist was famous for her pioneering research with chimpanzees and her influence on conservation

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