This year, on our 178th anniversary, Scientific American tried something new: we started a TikTok account. It’s the same high-quality science coverage you know and love, just in a shorter (and perhaps sillier) form.
In case you missed them, here are five of our most popular TikToks so far.
It’s not just you: airplane turbulence is getting worse.
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What happens when artificial intelligence eats itself?
Researchers finally tested period products with actual blood.
The Luddites were great, actually.
Would you have gotten this impossible SAT problem right?
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