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Kākāpō chicks surge after rare berry bloom

See the world’s oldest fossilized ‘butthole’ imprint

This BBC tech reporter hacked ChatGPT with a simple trick involving hot dogs

Fecal transplants from old mice boost fertility in younger ones

See the blood moon total lunar eclipse

Punch the monkey and his plushie re-create a famous psychological experiment

Why developers using AI are working longer hours

War pushes Ukraine’s astronomy to the brink

CATL sodium-ion battery aims to improve EV winter range loss

Experimental composer Holly Herndon built an AI voice clone that anyone can use

Are prime numbers hiding inside black holes?

Help yourself to stronger immunity

Will El Niño return in 2026? Here’s what we know so far

U.S.’s and Israel’s war with Iran leaves uranium stockpiles uncertain

The WHO just made its predictions for the 2026–2027 flu season

Saharan dust storms bring risk of ‘blood rain' and fiery skies to southern Europe

How the Dutch Fish Doorbell helps migrating fish each spring

Face of ancient human ancestor ‘Little Foot’ reconstructed for the first time

Why humanoid robots are learning everyday tasks faster than expected

Women’s heart health, Artemis update, female reindeer antlers mystery

See the moon turn blood red in a total lunar eclipse this week

Why mathematicians hate Good Will Hunting

‘Super agers’ with great memory have more young brain cells

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured speeding through the solar system by Jupiter-bound spacecraft

Glyphosate is driving a rift in MAHA. Here’s what the science says about its effects on health

U.S. officially surpasses 1,000 cases of measles in 2026

Is there lightning on Mars? New evidence suggests it’s there, just hard to see

Eerie brainlike nebula captured in stunning new JWST images

How to watch the ‘planetary parade’ of 2026

NASA scraps 2027 Artemis III moon landing in favor of 2028 mission

Galápagos tortoise once believed extinct is now roaming free

How LabOS AI-powered smart goggles could reduce human error in science

Do alien exoplanets have exomoons and exorings?

How a teen’s AI model could help stop poaching in rainforests

Head-to-head trial shows Eli Lilly’s oral GLP-1 orforglipron outperforms oral semaglutide

Male Neanderthals and female humans likely interbred more often than the other way around

Department of Homeland Security detains Columbia student identified as neuroscience researcher

Katharine Burr Blodgett made a breakthrough when she discovered ‘invisible glass’

Mosquitoes may have evolved a taste for human blood thanks to Homo erectus

At-home microbiome tests reveal dramatically different results

Cells in the body remember obesity. Here’s what that means for weight loss

Rubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800,000 times a night

The surprising scientific value of roadkill

How to win The Traitors, according to science

See the complexity at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy in new image

Trump’s State of the Union speech made no mention of Make America Healthy Again

NASA identifies astronaut Mike Fincke as triggering the unprecedented medical evacuation of the ISS

Many people don’t see mental images. The reason offers clues to consciousness

Economist Larry Summers resigns from posts at Harvard after ties to Epstein spark scrutiny

Heart disease in young women projected to rise sharply by 2050