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Too much salt can hijack your brain

Sled dog DNA reveals hidden chapter in Greenland's history

The ancient Greeks and Romans grappled with housing crises, too

Freeze-framing the cellular world to capture a fleeting moment of activity

Colorado's subalpine wetlands may be producing a toxic form of mercury

Why people embrace conspiracy theories: It's about community, not gullibility

Study links low rainfall to increased conflict between African pastoralists and farmers

Tiny protein dismantles the toxic clumps behind Alzheimer’s

Ancient shells and pottery reveal the vast 3,200-years-old trade routes of Oceania's Indigenous peoples

Tiny quantum dots unlock the future of unbreakable encryption

Tiny reactor boosts fusion with a sponge-like trick

When it comes to well-being, what are the pros and cons of working in an office vs. remote work?

A simple trick just made tiny lasers more powerful than ever

Scientists discover forgotten particle that could unlock quantum computers

A new perspective on how cosmological correlations change based on kinematic parameters

Saturday Citations: Beyond general relativity; gas giants and dark energy; the pleasures of difficult hobbies

The Brain’s Map of the Body Is Surprisingly Stable—Even after a Limb Is Lost

Seeing the world in new ways

Earliest evidence discovered of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold

Most of Earth’s species came from explosive bursts of evolution

Kilauea's eruption is back as the Hawaii volcano shoots lava for the 31st time since December

Hurricane Erin never hit land or caused major damage, but threatened turtle nests weren't so lucky

Iron sources in the South Pacific shifted over 93 million years, study finds

Study finds wide variation in Amazon's response to degradation and climate change

Physics-inspired computer architecture solves complex optimization problems

Speed isn't everything when it comes to covalent inhibitor drugs, study finds

These asteroids share a strange fingerprint from billions of years ago

New tool helps estimate societal impact of droughts

Are we accidentally broadcasting our location to alien civilizations?

Employees more likely to 'quiet quit' when feeling less control, study finds

New measurement station in Brazil: Quantum technology expands global network in search for dark matter

Sugar, the Secret Plant Thermostat

Origami Fit for the Cosmos

How Skinks and Honey Badgers Fight Snake Venom

When Our World Was a Wasteland

Calcium tests in poultry offer chance for improved feed efficiency

Only 37% of US states require sexual education in schools to be medically accurate

Hydroxyl adsorption identified as key factor in electrocatalytic ammonia production

Antibiotics normally don’t increase the risk of autoimmune disorders

Sea-level projections from the 1990s were spot on, study says

Microbes form living electrical networks to filter methane from ocean floor, scientists discover

Oil and gas air pollution linked to 91,000 early deaths in the US each year

Self-consistent model incorporates gas self-gravity effects to address accretion across cosmic scales

Using game theory to explain how institutions arise naturally to manage limited resources

Self-renewing Fe-N-C catalyst shows improved durability for oxygen reduction in acid

Berlin's waters carry bacterial traces of the city's population—with potential implications for the ecological status

How migratory locusts balance aggregation and repulsion via olfactory neural modulation

Forest bathing may boost physical health, not just mental well-being

Analysis reveals phytoplankton's contribution to centuries-long ocean carbon storage