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NASA’s experimental quiet supersonic plane passes another critical milestone

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Former U.S. health official explains why the Trump administration ‘ignored’ a key alcohol study

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Earth’s permafrost could soon release hidden ‘deep carbon,’ supercharging warming

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The 24 alien books Scientific American recommends

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SpaceX’s historic IPO ignites the new space race

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Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day gets one major thing wrong about the search for aliens

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SpaceX IPO valuation depends on Starship and orbital AI data centers

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Crowdsourcing could discover new meteor showers and more

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Can black holes send information back in time?

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Disclosure Day and interspecies communication—alien language isn’t just weird noises

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Obstetricians oppose CDC to recommend more shots for moms

The U.S. stockpiles oil in huge underground salt caverns. Here’s why

Meet LEV-2, a baseball-sized and absurdly cute moon robot

See the hidden fungal network so big it could stretch to Proxima Centauri and back

Children’s zip codes change their brains, new study finds

Humans and AI race to ‘blow up’ math’s toughest equations

Tilly Edinger: The paleoneurologist saved by her science

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrives at one of Earth’s mysterious ‘quasi-moons’

El Niño is here and could tip Earth to a new record hot year

What AI-herding scientists can learn from watching ‘sheepdog YouTube’

The 2026 World Cup will bring the heat. Here's how to keep cool

The U.S. is getting hit with severe stormy weather—here’s what’s stewing in the atmosphere

Report of gene-edited human embryos sparks worries about the technology’s future uses

AI scores a ‘C–’ on its hardest math test yet

How to build kids’ ‘cognitive endurance’ in an age of distraction

How to tell if your dog is left-pawed or right-pawed, according to science

Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years

How FIFA is engineering natural grass for the 2026 World Cup

Cats, unlike dogs and toddlers, help you only when it helps them

How Canadian rock duo Angine de Poitrine play with neurobiology and physics to make viral music

The World Cup could be a petri dish for disease. Wastewater could sound the alarm

The surprising science behind the 2026 World Cup grass

How the new FDA-approved ingredient bemotrizinol enhances sunscreen protection

How math’s ‘hairy ball theorem’ could explain bad hair days

Americans’ trust in the CDC has plummeted since 2025, new poll finds

NASA reveals astronauts who will fly Artemis III, its next step toward a moon landing

Inside the new Siri AI and the privacy paradox of Apple Intelligence

Resistance training may boost longevity. But how much do you need?

Rare meteorite might be a relic from a ‘lost world’

Genital herpes tests are notoriously unreliable, but better ones are in the works

Spotted lanternflies’ love of cities may be the secret to their invasion success

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs may have sparked millions of years of hydrothermal life

‘Odd’ Gulf of Mexico earthquake rattles Florida and Cuba

The Philippines earthquake is the largest this year, but it could’ve been bigger—here’s why

NASA’s astronauts will wear a Prada-designed onesie to keep cool on the moon

Increase in wildfire-driven ozone pollution linked to premature deaths across the U.S.

Why GLP-1 drugs might reduce cancer risk

World Cup begins under health watch as new AI rules spark debate and ancient Rome’s road network expands

Can AI detect smuggled sea cucumbers?

How math can help you decide what to order for dinner