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NASA’s X-59 plane goes supersonic for the first time

How prediction markets could forecast the future of science

Aquanauts experience awe-inspiring ‘underview effect’

Anthropic warns AI may soon begin recursive self-improvement

Astronauts take shelter on the International Space Station because of air leaks

Report: FDA just launched a study on the abortion pill

Planets aplenty may lurk around supermassive black holes

How breast cancer screening can predict heart disease risk

PCOS is now PMOS: What went behind renaming the common condition

Trump invokes Defense Production Act to keep U.S. coal plants running

Remote work is making Americans lonelier and sadder, new study suggests

Bumblebees use tools to solve complex problems—despite not being trained to do so

The Laetoli Footprints—the oldest hominin footprints ever found—are at risk of destruction

A flesh-eating New World screwworm was just found in a Texas cow—here’s what to know

Astronomers just solved a 50-year-old mystery about the Milky Way’s black hole

Did we just see a primordial black hole at the Milky Way’s edge?

Humans conquered the planet 300 times faster than genetic evolution can explain

Search for alien technology on interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS comes up empty

White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to ‘at-will’ hires

Scientists just built a powerful AI computer worm that learns as it spreads

Landmark pancreatic cancer treatment paves way for targeting other tricky tumors

NASA’s Mars mission MAVEN is lost forever

The reason why elevators feel slow—and the surprising math behind everyday life

Edison may not have been the first to record the human voice, new evidence suggests

Ötzi the murdered Iceman’s microbiome is still active

U.S. science must innovate or die, National Academy of Sciences president says

In a first, scientists transplanted both a pig liver and kidneys into a person who was brain-dead

Microsoft’s upgraded Majorana quantum computing chip fizzles with physicists

Sturgeon fish sex sounds like ‘thunder’

Trump’s new AI executive order drastically shifts the administration’s stance on the tech

Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network

Mathematicians sign declaration to rein in AI use

Questioning everything

How Gödel numbers turn mathematical laws against themselves

Trump’s psychedelics executive order could accelerate new treatments—even for children

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is being explored as a long COVID treatment. Here’s what the research shows

Oldest cave art in the U.K. discovered inside Welsh cave

How the war in Iran is affecting your dinner plate

Andrew Scott talks about World War II, D-Day and weather forecasting for his new film Pressure

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China launches rival to SpaceX Falcon 9 with zero warning

Hurricane season explained—and what to expect in 2026

Scientists are racing to stop a type of Ebola we have no vaccine for

These exotic particles could break physics

Top U.S. science funder slows research grants to universities

New protein-folding AI vastly expands on Alphafold's efforts

NASA’s Hubble captures gorgeous new photo of a spiral galaxy as it wanders through the Virgo Cluster

How the success of D-Day hinged on a weather forecast

Why high-bandwidth memory is a bottleneck for AI chips

Retatrutide results spark questions about how rapid weight loss affects the body