Scientific American

Scientific American

Cataclysmic Collisions May Explain ‘Forbidden’ Exoplanets

A new model could explain the scarcity of certain planet sizes
Scientific American

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don’t Know It

Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings
Scientific American

How Star Collisions Forge the Universe’s Heaviest Elements

Scientists have new evidence about how cosmic cataclysms forge gold, platinum and other heavy members of the periodic table
Scientific American

[:es]Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human[:]

[:es]Scientists demonstrate that crows are capable of recursion—a key feature in grammar. Not everyone is convinced[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Utility Explores Converting Coal Plants into Nuclear Power[:]

[:es]The large utility PacifiCorp is studying the viability of turning five fossil-fuel plants into nuclear-energy-and-storage facilities[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Heaviest Bony Fish Ever Measured Is a Wheel-Shaped Behemoth[:]

[:es]A sunfish found near the Azores breaks the 26-year-old record for the heftiest bony fish ever measured[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Greenland Is Disappearing Quickly, and Scientists Have Found a New Reason Why[:]

[:es]Meltwater from Greenland churns the ocean, speeding the loss of glaciers like stirring ice cubes in a glass of water[:]
Scientific American

[:es]The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It[:]

[:es]Elegant experiments with entangled light have laid bare a profound mystery at the heart of reality[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Extra Hard Space Diamonds May Have Formed in an Ancient Cosmic Collision[:]

[:es]A new formation method for rare “lonsdaleite” diamonds may illuminate a better way to produce them on Earth[:]