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The threat of light pollution puts the world's darkest skies in the Atacama Desert at risk

This new tool makes AI's role in student writing visible

Ammonia as a clean fuel: 'Do not create a new nitrogen problem,' says researcher

Panama’s ocean lifeline vanishes for the first time in 40 years

Deep under Antarctic ice, a long-predicted cosmic whisper finally breaks through in 13 strange bursts

Mezcal worm in a bottle DNA test reveals a surprise

Reading shortcuts for children may be popular, but the research doesn't back them up

Can warning videos blunt misinformation? What a 12-country test found

Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal? New study offers clues

Paris has successfully cut noise pollution, but urban birds still can't sing at their natural pitch

‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk, and more

Blood vessels found in T. rex bones are rewriting dinosaur science

DNA research just rewrote the origin of human species

Fish oil may be hurting your brain, new study finds

Graphene kills harmful bacteria “superbugs” but spares human cells

Warming waters are supercharging an invasive salmon predator in Alaska

Aggressive “hulk” lizards are wiping out millions of years of evolution

Bonuses can lower self-set goals and reduce performance, experiment suggests

Microfluidic device tracks cell 'squishiness' faster and more reliably than standard methods

Australian farmers are battling another potential mouse plague—what is causing it?

Forty years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl

Fluorescent probe lights up centrioles and cilia in living cells across species

More shearwaters are washing up dead on Australian beaches. It's not due to 'natural' causes

Venice is sinking. We analyzed every plan to save it, and none would preserve the city as we know it

When the rain comes, some NYC subway riders stay home. Scientists are now mapping exactly who, and where

Catalysis App: Structured research data for developing sustainable catalysts

Before dinosaurs vanished, a hamster-sized mammal was already shaping what survived next on the Pacific Coast

Contribution to Artemis II Moon mission sees successful test of a space camera under cosmic ray conditions

More activity means less response in active materials

Legacy preference bans may not increase college diversity, researchers say

Scientists just discovered Africa is closer to breaking apart than we thought

This life‑threatening bacterium's hidden motor just gave medicine an unexpected opening to fight back

Harvard scientists link gut bacteria to depression through hidden inflammation trigger

Don't just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future

New “optical tornado” technology could transform quantum communication

Studying the emergence of leaders in moving crowds of pedestrians

This exotic particle could finally explain why matter has mass

Century of data shows global decline in fish growth

Gravitational waves may have created dark matter in the early universe

Magnet with near-zero external field could reshape future electronics

The platypus is even weirder than thought, scientists discover

How accelerating evolution could help corals survive future heat waves—new study

Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago

Saturday Citations: Cruise ship pathogen spread in ancient Rome; Plus: Pomegranates, retinal implants

Inside 18 years of ape minds, a vast record that may upend how human intelligence began

‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread

Can electric air taxis carry passengers? Vertical Aerospace’s VX4 just cleared a key test

Mollusk shells could pave the way to greener materials

Giant prehistoric insects didn’t need high oxygen after all, study finds

Scientists just found what keeps plant cells from growing out of control