This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Today is Global Tiger Day—befittingly so ...

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Octopuses do the darndest things. Like kill their mate during mating—by strangling him with three arms, according to new observations from the wild. Hold on a second, you say. Strangling octopuses?

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American With almost 70 percent of the world’s student ...

First, some basic facts to convey the scale of the problem. Cancer is the second most lethal disease in the U.S., behind only heart disease. More than 1.7 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Since its birth 30 years ago, proponents of ...