Scientific American

Scientific American

[:es]What Structural Engineers Learned from 9/11[:]

[:es]Members of the profession study such tragic events to try and ensure that something similar won’t happen again[:]
Scientific American

[:es]InSight Lander Makes Best-Yet Maps of Martian Depths[:]

[:es]The NASA mission used seismic waves from marsquakes to perform a core-to-crust survey of the planet’s subsurface[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Fields Medals Are Concentrated in Mathematical ‘Families’[:]

[:es]In mathematics, as in many fields, who you know matters. An analysis of mathematicians’ “ancestors” (their graduate school advisers) as well as their descendants (the students they advised) shows that […]
Scientific American

[:es]See the Highest-Resolution Atomic Image Ever Captured[:]

[:es]Scientists achieved a record level of visual detail with an imaging technique that could help develop future electronics and better batteries[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Artificial Proteins Never Seen in the Natural World Are Becoming New COVID Vaccines and Medicines[:]

[:es]Researchers have begun to crack the code of protein structure, allowing them to remake, well, everything[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Human Evolution Led to an Extreme Thirst for Water[:]

[:es]We are more dependent on water than many other mammals and have developed a host of clever strategies for obtaining it[:]
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[:es]Why Deadly ‘Black Fungus’ Is Ravaging COVID Patients in India[:]

[:es]Standard treatments such as steroids, as well as illnesses such as diabetes, make the fungal infection worse[:]
Scientific American

[:es]Our Memory Is Even Better Than Experts Thought[:]

[:es]In some respects, memory is poor. In others, it is astonishingly good[:]
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[:es]Brood X Cicadas Are Emerging at Last[:]

[:es]The Great Eastern Brood has been underground for 17 years. Here’s what the insects have been up to down there[:]