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NFL uniforms can be absolute fire… or absolute disasters. For every clean, classic look like the Raiders’ silver and black, there’s a uniform combo so bad it makes you wonder if the team’s equipment ...

Humanity probably isn’t on the cusp of a nuclear fusion revolution just yet. But along the way, we are getting some peeks at mind-blowing fusion experiments, so what’s the big rush? We submit this new ...

Dessert is the most important meal of the day. I know, I know… breakfast gets all the credit for starting things off, and dinner gets the dramatic closing act. But dessert? Dessert is the spark.

Heat and color are related—the darker the color, the more heat that is absorbed. On a mostly sunny, 100 degree day, it doesn't take long to melt wax crayons. The video above demonstrates the order of ...

For the first time, researchers have measured atomic temperatures in extreme matter and found gold surviving at 19,000 kelvins, more than 14 times its melting point. The result dismantles a ...

While tariffs were initially enacted to help promote domestic manufacturing, one particular American industry is getting the short end of the stick: chocolate. Due to chocolate’s main ingredient, ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You don’t have to pay much ...