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Researchers are alarmed that an expansive executive order issued by President Donald Trump might upend a long-standing ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn ...

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Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can get to many countries if it finds the right hosts ...

Called subsea desalination, the idea is to remove the salt from water in the deep sea. If it worked at scale, the technology ...

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An artificial intelligence breakthrough uses reinforcement learning to tackle the Andrews-Curtis conjecture, solving ...

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To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles to show off some of our most ...

A survey of more than 1,000 physicists finds deep disagreements in what quantum theories mean in the real world ...