Plans to put U.S. data centers underwater are alarming ecologists: the noise and heat that annoy people could also stress endangered whales sciam.com/article/underwater…

From cartwheeling snakes to confident preschoolers and missions to Mars, this week’s Science Quickly roundup covers recent science, including on animals, big and small. sciam.com/podcast/episode/sn…

Do you feel horrified by clusters of holes or circles? You may have trypophobia. Once dismissed as an Internet meme gone too far, now researchers are homing in on what may be driving this aversion—is it disgust, or fear? sciam.com/article/what-is-tr…

A linguist explains how politicians' accents reflect their worldview—and the message they want to convey to voters sciam.com/article/why-partis…

Why is social media so hard to put down? Join Scientific American associate editor Allison Parshall and neuroscientist Eva Telzer on November 5 for a live discussion exploring the science behind social media addiction and how to build healthier relationships with technology. bigmarker.com/labx-media-gro…

With less than a year to go before the planned launch of Artemis III, NASA leaders laid out a packed schedule for the mission, including three rocket launches that will send the Orion capsule and two lunar landers into orbit sciam.com/article/nasa-lays-…

Think Captain America but for dogs. The start-up Warhound wants to create a new class of military superdogs using cloning and genetic engineering. We asked scientists what they think. sciam.com/article/warhound-w…

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s… A flying black triangle swooping through a canyon and spooking multiple federal agents? The U.S. government’s latest “UFO files” release includes this odd report, and more. sciam.com/article/strange-tr…

The Pentagon has granted the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a controversial and little-used “heat ray” weapon at the U.S.-Mexico border, prompting questions over how safe it is and how it works sciam.com/article/the-trump-…

“We know that what exacerbates anxiety is avoidance. Exposure therapy helps develop new, healthier relationships with your anxieties by breaking the avoidance habit.” sciam.com/article/how-exposi…

Mars has two weird moons, Phobos and Deimos. Are they captured asteroids? Are they impact-ejected chips off the ol’ Martian block? No one knows, but Japan’s just launched MMX mission should find out—and the answers could rewrite the Red Planet’s history. sciam.com/article/japans-mmx…

What is an “ultraprocessed” food? The answer may depend on who you ask. sciam.com/article/rfk-jr-pro…

Moderna-Merck clinical trial data for an mRNA-based skin cancer vaccine leaked on social media on Thursday. Here’s what the data actually show: sciam.com/article/heres-what…

Calley Means, a senior adviser to RFK, Jr., and a key figure in the Make America Healthy Movement, announced his resignation on Thursday. Means has drawn fire for his promotion of drinking raw milk and opposition to COVID vaccine mandates. sciam.com/article/rfk-jr-adv…

A new implant the size of a USB stick zaps glucose in the blood, potentially providing a new way to manage diabetes. Early results in mice are promising. sciam.com/article/this-impla…

What is inarguable is that, like them or not, data centers are increasingly important parts of our lives, and they’re increasingly seen as fair targets in war. How they are secured is a matter of national—and even international—importance sciam.com/article/data-cente…

What really happened when AI beat human mathematicians to solve the infamous Navier-Stokes problem? The full story—of trillion-dollar companies, ingenious agent swarms, and all-too-human foibles—is a troubling portent of math’s future. sciam.com/article/the-inside…

The constellation in Van Gogh’s The Starry Night may be based on a real cluster of stars in the Taurus constellation. Researchers make a compelling case with evidence from astronomy, weather analysis and Van Gogh’s letters. sciam.com/article/astronomer…

Fusion plasma can go haywire without warning. One researcher calls the problem “kind of existential.” A new superconducting AI chip kept up with a million tokamak data samples per second. The catch: so far it’s only seen recordings, never the live plasma. sciam.com/article/new-superc…