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The Inventor of the Thinking Machine Didn’t Worry. Neither Should You

From prejudice to harm—current policies targeting trans people follow a clear pattern of escalation

How to train your magnet: Excitons as a new knob for magnetic control

Mystery of 17th century shipwreck holding 400 gold coins finally solved after 30 years

Shell too snug? Hermit crabs have a fix

Video: The economic pressures that are driving Californians to leave home

What if there is no one to farm? Scientists reveal a hidden risk to future food security

Hidden electric space waves are quietly cleaning Earth's 'killer' electrons

Real-time microscopy reveals how semiconductor nanowires grow, and how bismuth seeds can speed their formation

Perfectly preserved pterosaur wing rewrites the fossil rulebook

World's highest-consuming 10% cause up to $5.7 trillion a year in environmental damage, study finds

How do flocking birds and schools of fish move? New research offers crystal-clear answer

Long-dismissed moss gene suppresses twins and triplets, reshaping ideas of plant evolution

Early-career scientists build national infrastructure to bridge science and policy

Orangutans eat medicinal plants in patterns that suggest self-medication

Q&A: Do high-pressure environments encourage moral disengagement?

How to watch August’s total solar eclipse live with Scientific American

Study yields new insights on what makes conversation engaging

Pigeons' eyes are almost perfectly still when they're flying, study finds

Salty clouds discovered on pink puffball planet

Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI

Famous 'Pink Planet' harbors a salty surprise

Science Is Political—and Spiritual

Arizona reservoir nearly vanishes after snowpack collapse triggers massive fish kill

How one new telescope is going to change astronomy forever

Screens dominate the dinner table, with 77.6% of parents using devices

Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World is still supremely relevant today

Beyond bread and beer, alluring yeast species could yield new mosquito traps to combat malaria

The truth about brain rot, according to science

Ripple-like rings of the 'Bullseye galaxy' could be explained by dark matter

Ancient DNA reveals plague was already killing humans 5,500 years ago

Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years longer than expected

Groundwater flow could help unlock ocean carbon storage solution

Building better evidence for Australia's ocean future

Texas wine grapes launch to space for research mission

California's home insurance crisis is spreading beyond wildfire country

1 in 3 psychologists say their patients use AI as a second therapist

Could cosmic memory explain dark matter, dark energy, and black holes?

The surprising science history behind New York City’s ticker-tape parades

AI-driven optical tweezers sort hundreds of particles per hour without humans

How sea-ice microbes survive the Southern Ocean's harsh winter has implications for climate change

India learns to live with hotter summers

Bird flu kills 13,000 seal pups on remote Australian island

Tropical Cyclone Arthur weakens to a low pressure area along the upper Texas coast

Major errors found in Al Gore-founded Climate TRACE database

These bees have nowhere to hide from extreme heat

Researchers found 8 common food additives linked to high blood pressure and heart disease

Tourism firms face complex path to sustainability

Study analyzes buyers' assumptions about carpal chips in Thoroughbred yearlings