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Pearl Young joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1922, working across departments before becoming a technical editor at Scientificamerican.com

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Future-oriented thinking, rather than careening from moment to moment, can help parents have more meaningful moments with their children at Scientificamerican.com

The sun is bidding farewell to 2024 with a bang—or rather several bangs. Our star produced three powerful flares on December 29. In addition, two bubbles of material it sent speeding out across space may paint Earth’s skies with auroras just as many Earthlings mark the turn of the year. at Scientificamerican.com

European Union countries and Australia have rolled out front-of-package nutrient profiling. Color-coding or star rankings let shoppers make quick choices about healthy foods at Scientificamerican.com

Street medicine providers and homeless outreach workers who travel into Las Vegas’s drainage tunnels have noticed an uptick in the number of people living underground, and it can be difficult to persu at Scientificamerican.com

Researchers are learning what causes Alice in Wonderland syndrome, a rare neurological condition that can appear to warp bodies, time and reality itself at Scientificamerican.com

All of statistics and much of science depends on probability—an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is at Scientificamerican.com

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