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What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting.

The Trump administration is bringing back flavored vapes. Advocates and lawmakers say the risks outweigh the benefits

Hunters' appreciation of a targeted deer-management program transcends harvest

The lost koala: New fossil species was hiding in plain sight for 100 years

How Potatoes Shaped the Genes of the First People to Grow Them

What working‑class boys need to succeed at school: Respect and open conversations

Landsat 9 captures Russia's restless Shiveluch volcano mid-eruption

A tale as old as time: Young, attractive femme fatale lore appears in nearly every culture

Over 60% of developing countries face overlapping socioeconomic and water security challenges, scientists warn

Feeling underqualified can help drive performance or toxic behavior—depending on one psychological factor

Hologram technology where 'light becomes the key' enables hard-to-copy security

Freshwater mussel protein offers new source of inspiration for medical-grade glues

Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami

Neandertals used rhinoceros teeth as tools

Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read

A persistent quantum computing error finally explained

A 1,500-foot tsunami took scientists by surprise. Now we know why it happened

OpenBind's first data and model release marks a milestone for AI enabled drug discovery

‘Touchy-feely’ dark matter is having a moment

Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

What are AI agents? Inside a real experiment where AI ran a start‑up

When strength in numbers stops working: Climate extremes rewrite monkey society in Costa Rica

Radical shifts to sustainability call for a new kind of legal thinking, researchers argue

'Indian Niño' drove record heat in 2023 and 2024, new study finds

New AI method tackles one of science’s hardest math problems

With large DNA fragment assembly, scientists can design microbes that produce countless complex products

Megafires may drive the prairie grouse into sub-optimal habitats

PEG400 reveals parasite-only pocket that could sharpen malaria treatment

240-million-year-old giant “sand creeper” found hidden in retaining wall

Colon cancer breakthrough keeps patients cancer-free for nearly 3 years

On the ground or in the atmosphere? Swarm satellites help characterize and pinpoint destructive events

Common knee surgery found ineffective, may make things worse

Space junk falls to Earth faster when sunspots peak, reshaping satellite collision forecasts

Space junk falls back to Earth faster as sunspot numbers climb

This common sleep habit could double your risk of heart attack

Oak trees are delaying spring to starve caterpillars

Webb space telescope reveals a scorching “super-Earth” that looks like Mercury

Reducing social inequality: Why the scope of measures is crucial

AI lets chemists design molecules by simply describing them

New algorithm spreads volunteers more fairly across nonprofits, with 8% broader reach

Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia

Safeguarding children in childcare: Teacher confidence key to addressing trauma

Male coyote swam 2 miles to Alcatraz Island, twice as far as biologists had expected

CPR simulator for space use tracks the differences of blood flow in reduced gravity

Polymer 'bristles' could help repel proteins—and germs—from surfaces in medical settings

Colonialism and the role of science in the history of Lake Malawi's fisheries

Carnivorous plants and wasps blur the line between friend and food

A skull full of surprises: Discovering the evolutionary secrets of fish brains

Climate scientist finds large errors in a global climate pollution database

Singing mice puff up air sacs to make their sweet songs