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The U.S. has weapons in space. Here’s what that could mean

The Rhythm of Your Breath Leaves a Fingerprint on Your Thoughts

A 240-million-year-old fossil just changed the dinosaur timeline

Microbes can produce adhesive materials from glucose instead of petroleum

Three questions: Putting nuclear waste into perspective

Heating mica to 200°C reveals friction independent of sliding speed

How bacteria hijack viruses to shuffle their own DNA

Beach-burrowing beasties may shovel more sand than any other animal on Earth

A 16-minute train delay shows how a solar storm disrupted Victorian technology

The Mediterranean is getting warmer and saltier at an ever-faster pace—even thousands of meters below the surface

Is pasta a type of noodle? The surprisingly serious debate over two beloved carbs

Blood test shows promise in detecting pancreatic cancer early—a ‘holy grail’ for the field

Alzheimer’s damage may begin outside the brain

Scientists find the whole grain “sweet spot” for better heart health

Nearly 50 'ghost galaxies' emerge around three hosts, challenging dwarf galaxy counts

The hidden cost of pressure to be a perfect parent

Scientists recreated what mice saw from brain activity alone

A third of Americans cannot name the three branches of government

Webb measures extreme gas outflows from distant 'dead' galaxies

Thousands of the most vulnerable children and young people missing out on mental health support

Sibling interactions are an untapped resource for early engineering education, study suggests

Venus may have swallowed its own moon

New breeding approach targets crop rotations, not yield alone

Fewer than half of Americans expect free and fair midterms

Irrigation’s climate benefit could equal 363 years of its own emissions

Australia's ancient rainfall patterns more complex than previously believed

'Invisible work' of AI falls disproportionately to middle managers, women

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

Scientists “truly astonished” by discovery that challenges Earth’s origin story

Nine in 10 UK gambling websites breach data privacy law, study finds

Anthropic’s AI steals mathematicians’ record for most complicated curve

Vox’s Unexplainable explores Scientific American’s biggest unanswered science questions

First-of-its-kind preventive phage therapy provides promising results against Salmonella

New simulations link unusual particle diffusion to yielding in soft jammed matter

'Born-again' star offers rare chance to watch stellar evolution in real time

Speeding glaciers drive half a century of polar ice loss

The local costs of remote sensing: Examining the ethics of laser scanning in tropical forests

Wildfires push endangered Sumatran elephants to brink: Indonesian NGO

SpaceX prepares for first orbital flight of Starship rocket

US acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space

Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area

A world 20 light-years away reveals surprisingly organized, Jupiter-like weather

Study finds violence affects millions across US with links to health, economic hardship

Chimpanzees give youngsters the tools to learn tricky techniques

James Webb reveals Chariklo’s mysterious rings are changing faster than expected

Transparency and trust are the foundations of every successful research partnership, report suggests

Ultra-processed foods linked to hidden muscle fat that may threaten your knees

How high turnover rates in Tanzania's agro-dealer sector affect farmer fertilizer adoption

Scientists find a hidden retinal defense against vision loss

A new mechanism for reading extra-long genes in neurons