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RFK, Jr. and EPA announce plan to track microplastics in tap water and humans

‘Jaw-dropping’ fossils reset the clock on when complex animals evolved

Octopus sex is even weirder than you think

How Eli Lilly’s new GLP‑1 pill stacks up against Wegovy and other weight‑loss drugs

Why humpback whale rescue effort got called off

Anthropic leak reveals Claude Code tracking user frustration and raises new questions about AI privacy

See these ziti-sized fish scale a 50-foot waterfall

NASA’s moon mission day one—a toilet mishap and spacecraft maneuvers

Why do Black women have worse IVF outcomes?

Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age

NASA Artemis II astronauts ‘safe’ and ‘secure’ as they journey toward the moon, officials say

NASA’s Artemis II mission launches four astronauts to the moon

Secrets of color vision could hold clues to treating nearsightedness

What the Meta and Google verdict means for social media design

Artemis II Mission Timeline

Live: NASA’s Artemis II moon mission launches

The Alaskan permafrost is thawing. Here’s why that’s so worrying

Artemis II’s toilet is a moon mission milestone

April 1 snowpack this year is utterly dismal

Why do we have chins? Researchers may finally know

Inside a bold plan to pulverize an Earth-bound asteroid

Eat more plant-based protein instead of meat, top heart health body says, contradicting RFK, Jr.

How a statistical paradox can make research findings fall apart

How physicists proved that quantum weirdness is a feature, not a bug

Space weather could threaten NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their trip to the moon

Utah’s Great Salt Lake may be hiding a massive reservoir of fresh water

SpaceX Starlink satellite suffers mysterious ‘anomaly’ in orbit

NASA’s nuclear mission to Mars isn’t as crazy as it sounds

How to get pesticides and ‘forever chemicals’ off fruits and vegetables

NASA starts countdown clock to historic Artemis II moon mission launch

Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron explains why bees are his latest fixation

New ‘Cicada’ COVID variant is spreading in the U.S.—here’s what to know

These snakes steal poison from their prey—here's how they know they have enough

NASA’s nuclear Mars mission, Iran war’s carbon emissions surge and Pfizer’s promising Lyme vaccine trial

NASA astronauts are counting down to the Artemis II moon launch

Static electricity has baffled scientists for centuries. Can new research solve the puzzle?

Can you survive inside a tornado? This scientist did by accident—he’s lucky to be alive

How ultraprecise ‘nuclear clocks’ could transform timekeeping

How to build self-control, according to psychologists

How human neurons on a chip learned to play Doom

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts arrive in Florida ahead of moon launch

Trump’s new science panel includes 9 tech billionaires—and just one scientist

AI wrote a scientific paper that passed peer review

We thought we knew the shape of the universe. We were wrong

NASA spots comet reversing its spin in a first for science

How do mRNA vaccines work, and why are they safe and effective?

Is the universe swarming with tiny black holes?

The truth about pain that your doctor might not tell you

Sperm whales help one another give birth, new study finds

AI chatbots are sucking up to you—with consequences for your relationships