Eliene Augenbraun
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New York, NY, United States
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Fido's Human Age Gets New Estimates
By comparing how DNA gets altered over the lifetimes of people and dogs, researchers came up with a new way to compare canine years with human years. → Read More
Could You Be The Greatest SciFi Film Maker on the Planet?
The Quantum Shorts film festival wants to know, and the deadline for submissions is coming up on December 1 → Read More
NASA Interns are Really, Really Excited About Their Work
They want you to be excited too, so they produce their own music videos—the latest inspired by Flo Rida’s "My House" → Read More
The 2016 Scientific American Innovators Award Winners Turn Foam Waste into Water Purifiers
Three 14 year olds from Columbus, Ohio won this years Scientific American Innovators award at the 2016 Google Science Fair in California on September 27, 2016. → Read More
Jupiter's Red Spot Is Red Hot
What Jupiter’s spot is not, is tranquil. New infrared images taken by Boston University scientists on a NASA telescope in Hawaii show that whereas Jupiter’s north and south poles are heated by strong magnetic fields, its large, stormy red spot generates its own heat by a different mechanism. Shock waves from turbulent winds in the spot and other storms help explain how the planet's upper… → Read More
A Corpse Flower Blooms in the Bronx
For the first time since 1939, the New York Botanical Garden has coaxed a corpse flower to open its massive bloom and flood the greenhouse with the stench of sewers and rotting meat. → Read More
A Corpse Flower Blooms in the Bronx
For the first time since 1939, the New York Botanical Garden has coaxed a corpse flower to open its massive bloom and flood the greenhouse with the stench of sewers and rotting meat. → Read More
Juno's Waves Instrument Will Map Jupiter's Magnetic Field
Juno team member William Kurth offers an exclusive tour of the instruments the spacecraft will use to study Jupiter's intense magnetic waves. Produced with support from Explore Scientific → Read More
Spacecraft Juno Slows Down for its First Orbit of Jupiter
In this exclusive interview, the project manager of one of Juno's instruments explains how the spacecraft will slow down prior to its insertion into Jupiter's orbit. → Read More
Jupiter, Get Ready for Your Close-Up!
Juno, NASA’s new mission to Jupiter, reaches the giant planet on July 4, 2016. Among its many firsts, Juno will peer deeper than ever before beneath the Jovian clouds and will deliver the first interplanetary LEGO kit. Produced with support from Explore Scientific → Read More
Light Pollution Map Shows Dark Skies Are Rare
A new atlas of light pollution shows that most people never see a truly dark sky at night. You can read more about it here . → Read More
Mosquitoes Drill Under Human Skin with 6 Hollow Needles [Video]
You'll never think about those warm summer evenings the same way again → Read More
Epic Math Battles: Go versus Atoms
In this special edition of 60-Second Science Video, two numbers compete. Which is larger? The number of possible positions in the ancient game of go or the number of atoms in the entire universe? → Read More
Retrieving the Dead from the Bottom of the Mediterranean
An old fishing boat, only 20 meters long but packed with as many as 950 would-be migrants from Libya, sank off the coast of Italy on April 18, 2015. A year later the Italian government is trying to recover and identify the bodies now trapped under 400 meters of water. → Read More
Profile of Mercury-- in Images
NASA’s Messenger spacecraft orbited Mercury for four years before its planned plunge to the planet’s surface on April 30, 2015. On May 6, 2016 NASA, USGS, and their university partners showed what the spacecraft had done: they presented the first topological map ever produced of Mercury and a color-enhanced view of the northern polar region. On May 9, 2016, Mercury was visible on Earth… → Read More
California Ants Rally to Repel Argentine Invaders
The Golden State's native winter ants have stopped the seemingly inexorable march of their tiny foreign rivals → Read More
Scientific American Songs: Earth Day
Jonathan Edwards remakes his folk rock classic, "Sunshine," to call for action on climate change. He plays this new version with Scientific American publisher Jeremy Abbate. → Read More
Slime Molds Are Smarter Than You Think
Not a high bar, admittedly, but they're still pretty amazing creatures...or...whatever → Read More
How Did This Crazy Insect Manage to Evolve? [Video]
The bombardier beetle's built-in chemistry lab makes for a formidable weapon → Read More
The Earliest Flash of a Supernova, Captured for the First Time
For a mission that had a near-death experience in 2013, the Kepler spacecraft continues to do some pretty amazing science → Read More